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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7420566 | Apparatus and method for forming event picture in mobile communication terminal Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for forming an event picture in a mobile communication terminal. According to the invention, when there occurs any event such as call reception, alarm or message reception under state that a service picture is displayed on a s... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7397476 | Projector, projection display system, and corresponding method and recording medium In response to a requirement of transferring a file from a personal computer PC to a projector 10 that is output by dragging and dropping a corresponding file icon onto a projector icon, a CPU 50 requires setting of a password. The CPU 50 maps t... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7369284 | Image signal processing method, image signal processing device, and image signal processing system A color image signal processing device having a high resolution and excellent color reproducibility even though the device comprises a one-chip color sensor. The data format for transmitting image information inputted through an input unit to an output unit includes... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369134 | Methods and systems for multimedia memory management Methods and associated systems that allow a plurality of real-time multimedia applications to operate concurrently within a computer system with constrained primary memory. In particular, the methods and systems of the present invention allow for a plurality of real... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362333 | Graphical manipulation in a mobile wireless device Methods to manipulate the mobile wireless device screen more efficiently are provided. The method and devices allow a graphical user interface to be used more efficiently on a mobile handset with limited processing ability. A graphical user interface can be implemen... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7346789 | Multimedia reproducing apparatus having function for efficient use of memory A multimedia reproducing apparatus having excellent operability and amenity. In the apparatus, a ROM contains an OS including a system program and a utility program. A control unit controls at suspend function by which data indicating the state of contents of displa... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7327371 | Graphic controller, microcomputer and navigation system Image data storage areas of a plurality of pages are allocated for each of a plurality of display planes capable of superimposed display, and display output processing is performed while switching between the image data storage areas is being performed for each disp... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7313764 | Method and apparatus to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows Methods and apparatuses to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows. In one aspect of the invention, a method to scroll a buffered window on a data processing system includes: determining a second region of a second pixel image of a window in a frame buffer, which ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312831 | Re-inserting VBI data using OSD apparatus and method A method of reinserting Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) data in a digital video signal includes creating a gray scale palette in a an On Screen Display (OSD) memory; sizing a VBI area in an OSD memory; locating a VBI area in an OSD memory; generating a VBI luma wav... | 12/25/2007 |
| RE39898 | Apparatus, systems and methods for controlling graphics and video data in multimedia data processing and display systems A graphics and video controller 105 is provided which includes a dual aperture interface 206 for receiving words of graphics and video pixel data, each word of such data associated with an address directing that word to be processed as either graphics ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7190366 | Method and system for a general instruction raster stage that generates programmable pixel packets A method and system for a general instruction capable raster stage that generates flexible pixel packets is disclosed. In one embodiment, the rasterizing of a geometric primitive comprising a plurality of vertices wherein each vertex comprises a respective color val... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7170526 | Method and apparatus for redirecting the output of direct rendering graphics calls One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates redirecting the output of direct rendering graphics calls in a 3D window system. The system interposes a redirection library between an application and a direct rendering library in the 3D wi... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7142214 | Data format for low power programmable processor A graphics processor includes programmable arithmetic logic units (ALUs) for performing scalar arithmetic operations on pixel packets. For a selected scalar arithmetic operation, operands in pixel packets may be formatted in a S1.8 format to improve dynamic range. F... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7109996 | Apparatus and method for rendering characters into a memory A system and method for rendering fonts into a memory is disclosed. The system and method comprises a data structure located within the memory. The data structure includes at least one font array. The method and system includes a graphics controller for accessing at... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7080172 | Management of memory, hardware and associated device drivers using stacks Managing memory allocations and de-allocations with a stack, and managing hardware initializations and de-initializations with another stack. A stack may store de-allocate information. Another stack may store de-initialization information. The techniques may be appl... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7057617 | Font memory and font data reading method Font data for each resolution level is stored in a font memory (10). Character specifying addresses A0 to Ax and font resolution levels L0 to Lz are input to output the optimum font data that match the resolution of... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7046250 | Caching fonts for improved bandwidth of transmitted text Caching fonts on a display computer may be performed in order to reduce network bandwidth utilization and/or to improve CPU usage. Text commands may be recorded when they are executed to create a portion of a graphics image. These text commands may be used to update... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7012612 | Context dependent image caching A mechanism is provided that identifies certain classes of images that are likely to be re-used, and utilizes this information to manage a cache better. This may include flushing certain classes of images that are less likely to be re-used before flushing the classe... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6992789 | Method, system, and program for managing a multi-page document Provided is a method, system, and program for managing a multi-page document. A plurality of input files are received including digital representations of multiple pages of a document. The content of each entire page is represented in a first representation format. ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6985154 | Image processing for display of off-screen data Conventionally, in displaying a document on a display, the document is displayed on the display after an image of the document is drawn off-screen once. Thus, it may take long until the image of the document can be checked when it is drawn for the first time. In an ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6943915 | Color conversion method, color conversion apparatus and color conversion definition storage medium Printing image data is converted into image data for a proofer through a print condition conversion process for converting CMYK for printing into L*a*b*, a spot color reference process for converting a spot color name into L*a*b*, a printer condition conversion proc... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6915401 | System and method for managing off-screen buffers for electronic images An off-screen buffer manager controls when the off-screen buffer is destroyed and re-created improving system performance. A screen request is received for a Java screen component and a determination is made whether there is already an off-screen buffer. If there is... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6906720 | Multipurpose memory system for use in a graphics system A graphics system may include a frame buffer, a processing device coupled to output data, a multipurpose memory device that includes a plurality of storage locations and is coupled to store data output from the processing device, and a multipurpose memory controller... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6900811 | Programmable sliding window for image processing A sliding window (block) system incorporating a methodology for providing a processor access to image data is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the system operates as follows. An image is received for processing that has a size that is too large for the process... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6876400 | Apparatus and method for protecting a memory sharing signal control lines with other circuitry An apparatus such as a television signal receiver includes first and second circuit boards. The first circuit board includes a memory, and control circuitry for controlling at least one function of the apparatus. The second circuit board is operably coupled to the f... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6870578 | Apparatus and method for sharing signal control lines An apparatus such as a television signal receiver includes first and second circuit boards. The first circuit board includes a first device such as a memory, and control circuitry for controlling at least one function of the apparatus. The second circuit board is op... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6847410 | Picture data memory device with picture data input channels and picture data output channels A picture data memory device which can be used universally comprises a central picture data memory for storing picture data of a plurality of picture data input channels, in which case the stored picture data can additionally be read out via a plurality of picture d... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6567097 | Display control apparatus When video data is odd field data, interlaced data for an even field consisting of all black even line data is appended to that video data by an interlaced data appending circuit. On the other hand, when video data is even field data, interlaced data for ... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6466220 | Graphics engine architecture A method and apparatus for display of graphical data is described. The invention provides an architecture for graphics processing. The architecture includes pipelined processing and support for multi-regional graphics. In one embodiment, a graphics driver... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6369826 | Computer, overlay processor and method for performing overlay processing To enable a moving image to be clearly displayed on a hold-type of a display, such as a liquid crystal display, by setting a shutter function in an overlay processor, a computer having a display for displaying a moving image includes a memory with an on-s... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6344856 | Text optimization A method of providing text data for display in a processor controlled apparatus comprised of storing data defining a text character in a memory, in packed monochrome bit map form, addressing the memory to read the text character data, providing the text c... | 02/05/2002 |
| 5949439 | Computing apparatus and operating method using software queues to improve graphics performance A software queue located in an offscreen portion of video memory is used as a large-capacity software queue for queuing messages to a graphics accelerator. Although the software queue is typically stored in a dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory, advantages of faste... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5844569 | Display device interface including support for generalized flipping of surfaces A method for generalized flipping of pixmaps and other arrays of image data in a software display device interface for computer generated graphics applications. The display device interface enables application programs to create flipping surface structure... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5838336 | Method and system for displaying images on a display device The present invention provides an improved method and system for displaying images on a display screen. It includes a display screen, an on-screen memory, a cursor memory, and a display processor. The display processor in a normal mode displays on the dis... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5757386 | Method and apparatus for virtualizing off-screen memory of a graphics engine An application request for off-screen VRAM is satisfied transparently to the application by allocating off-screen VRAM, if available, or system RAM if off-screen VRAM is unavailable. In addition, a list is kept of previous memory requests so that requests... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5742797 | Dynamic off-screen display memory manager A display memory manager allocates and deallocates off-screen video memory by dividing the memory space into a plurality of lapping and non-overlapping regions each capable of storing a different amount of digitized display data, and creating a linked lis... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5734873 | Display controller with accelerated drawing of text strings A display controller includes a text engine which stores font information, including image and width information, in a unused portion of the frame buffer. A character string comprising width vectors and indices which point to the characters to be drawn, i... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5710577 | Pixel description packet for a rendering device Output device command information and color description information are identified in a source image description and encoded into a pixel description packet. The source image description is converted into an arrangement of pixel data with each pixel locat... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5630043 | Animated texture map apparatus and method for 3-D image displays A method and apparatus for generating 3-D images utilizes an MPEG decoder to decode/decompress animated texture maps into a half-frame buffer. The MPEG decoder may act as a PCI bus master to assert control of the host system bus to the exclusion of all ot... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5598525 | Apparatus, systems and methods for controlling graphics and video data in multimedia data processing and display systems A graphics and video controller 105 is provided which includes a dual aperture interface 206 for receiving words of graphics and video pixel data, each word of such data associated with an address directing that word to be processed as either graphics or ... | 01/28/1997 |
