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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189005 | Screen display control device Provided is a screen display control device including: a compression unit which compresses image data; a rewritable video memory in which the data compressed by the compression unit of image data of one frame including line data (Y (Y: natural number) pixels/one lin... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8085274 | Video data compression Systems and methods for compressing data within a block of data for storage in memory and for transmission along a data path are described herein. By utilizing previously unused bits in data words, the valid data can be stored more efficiently and transmitted in few... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7961195 | Two component texture map compression Methods and systems for compressing and decompressing data are described. A first value of N+1 bits and a second value of N+1 bits are reduced to strings of N bits each. The first and second strings of N bits are stored in a particular order relative to one another ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7925141 | Systems and methods for storing a plurality of video streams on re-writable random-access media and time- and channel-based retrieval thereof A digital video recorder (DVR) and a method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the DVR includes: (1) a mass data storage unit that concurrently and continuously receives and digitally stores a plurality of channels and (2) a channel viewer, coupled to the mas... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7898550 | System and method for memory bandwidth compressor Various embodiments for reducing external bandwidth requirements for transferring graphics data are included. One embodiment includes a system for reducing the external bandwidth requirements for transferring graphics data comprising a prediction error calculator co... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7705852 | System and method for managing compressed graphic image data Compressed graphic image data files, such as Compressed ARC (Arc-second Raster Chart/map) Digitized Raster Graphics (CADRG) map files for a region of interest, are stored in blocks of memory (nodes) preferably arranged as a linked list. Portions of files containing ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7659907 | System and method for providing dynamic control of a graphics session A visual server system (10) includes a visual server (12) that provides graphics images through execution of a graphics application (20). The graphics images are compressed by a compression unit (63) according to compression modules (2... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7580041 | Direct storage of compressed scan converted data Systems and methods for scan converting data into compressed representations of pixel data are described. In one aspect, shape geometry including shape and/or position attributes of one or more objects are directly scan converted into compressed scan converted data.... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7427990 | Data replacement method and circuit for motion prediction cache A system for decoding a video bitstream and a method for replacing image data in a motion prediction cache are described. For each of the cache lines, a tag distance between pixels stored in the cache line and uncached pixels that are to be stored in the cache is ca... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424172 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus and display apparatus suitable for the application of image processing method A lattice dividing unit determines lattice lines to divide parameters of all points of a picture at every division and supplies distortion correction parameters (distortion correction coordinates) on the lattice points to a distortion correction memory (not shown). ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418155 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus and display apparatus suitable for the application of image processing method A lattice dividing unit determines lattice lines to divide parameters of all points of a picture at every division and supplies distortion correction parameters (distortion correction coordinates) on the lattice points to a distortion correction memory (not shown). ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7408549 | Method for hardware sorted fragment composition A graphics system including a frame buffer and a processing unit. The frame buffer contains N slots per pixel. Slots are used to store fragments. Suppose the N slots for a given pixel are occupied. In response to having received (or generated) a new fragment for the... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7404014 | Method and system for transmitting and determining the effects of display orders from shared application between a host and shadow computer A method and system for compressing bitmap data in a system for sharing an application running on a host computer with a remote computer, wherein the shared application's screen output is simultaneously displayed on both computers. Simultaneous display of screen out... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7382376 | System and method for effectively utilizing a memory device in a compressed domain A system and method for effectively storing compressed information in an electronic device includes a memory device coupled to the electronic device for storing the compressed information. A compression module sequentially performs a forward write procedure to store... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382924 | Pixel reordering and selection logic Presented herein are systems and methods for pixel reordering and selection. A decoded frame is stored in a frame buffer with a particular pixel order and byte order. A pixel feeder fetches portions of the decoded frame and stores portions of the frame in a double b... | 06/03/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7369138 | Full-scene anti-aliasing method and system A method and system for performing full-scene anti-aliasing for an image through a technique of rotating and unrotating rasterization of a scene and rendering a resulting image. A scene is rasterized at a first angle relative to a first coordinate system to generate... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362338 | Controllable pixel border for improved viewability of a display device A display device having a display matrix (m+2x by n+2x) including an active, e.g., controllable, pixel border located around the edge locations of a frame buffer matrix for improved character viewability. The border can be several pixels wide, e.g., 1 | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362780 | Avoiding compression of encrypted payload The invention proposes a method for conveying data packets in a network, comprising the steps of examining (S1, S2) whether a received data packet is encrypted, compressing (S3) the data packet in case it is examined that the data packet is not ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362903 | Wavelet-based mesh coding method A method is provided for coding a source mesh (M) representing a three-dimensional object or a scene, using a simple mesh (M0) having a limited number of facets, each defined by vertices and edges, and coefficients in a base of wavelets, corresponding to ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7355530 | Method and device for determining at least one multimedia data encoding parameter The invention concerns a method of determining at least one parameter for encoding multimedia digital data organized in elementary units of data intended to be encoded according to at least one encoding mode, wherein said method comprises the following steps:—dete... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352915 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus and display apparatus suitable for the application of image processing method A lattice dividing unit determines lattice lines to divide parameters of all points of a picture at every division and supplies distortion correction parameters (distortion correction coordinates) on the lattice points to a distortion correction memory. A polynomial... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351147 | Standard peripheral communication A disclosed gaming machine has a plurality of “gaming peripherals,” each communicating with a master gaming controller via a standard peripheral interface such as the USB (Universal Serial Bus). Further, the gaming peripherals employ a standard peripheral contro... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7342590 | Screen compression Methods, circuits, and apparatus for reducing memory bandwidth used by a graphics processor. Uncompressed tiles are read from a display buffer portion of a graphics memory and received by an encoder. The uncompressed tiles are compressed and written back to the grap... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339505 | Image compression and decompression Techniques employable to compress and decompress images are presented herein. ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340103 | Adaptive entropy encoding/decoding for screen capture content Adaptive entropy encoding and decoding techniques are described. For example, a screen capture encoder and decoder perform adaptive entropy encoding and decoding of palettized screen capture content in screen capture video. The encoder selects between different entr... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330916 | Graphic controller to manage a memory and effective size of FIFO buffer as viewed by CPU can be as large as the memory A system for providing a command stream that includes a controller chip is disclosed. The controller chip includes an engine operative to manage a memory. The engine includes an interface. A storage element is coupled to the engine and the storage element is accessi... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7324115 | Display list compression for a tiled 3-D rendering system A 3-dimensional computer graphics rendering system receives object data for a scene to be rendered. This includes vertex data and index data. The scene is subdivided into priority of rectangular areas (202). Object 8 of each rectangular area in the sce... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321368 | Electronic system and method for display using a decoder and arbiter to selectively allow access to a shared memory An electronic system, an integrated circuit and a method for display are disclosed. The electronic system contains a first device, a memory and a video/audio compression/decompression device such as a decoder/encoder. The electronic system is configured to allow the... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321371 | Data conversion device The data conversion device of the present invention includes: a coding section for replacing (i) one or more components constituting the display data of each pixel and other one or more components constituting display data of a pixel existing around that pixel on a ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317547 | Single compressor with plural decompressors for multi-laser printing In a laser printer having a plurality of lasers, each of which effectuates the deposition of toner onto lines of a page to be printed, a method of printing several lines substantially simultaneously comprises storing within a single print data buffer, print data com... | 01/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7305501 | Portable computer system having LCD monitor for selectively receiving video signals from external video signal input from external computer A portable computer system includes a portable computer equipped with a graphic chip, and an LCD monitor receiving a video signal from the graphic chip and displaying the video signal. The portable computer system further includes an external video signal input part... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7305397 | Caching data communications to reduce latency A system for allowing applications to communicate data to a database on a host system run by a system administrator. In one embodiment, the system may perform several caching functions of data passing between a database and a user on a CAD system. ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301542 | System and method for filtering graphics data on scanout to a monitor A graphics processing system performs filtering of oversampled data during a scanout operation. Sample values are read from an oversampled frame buffer and filtered during scanout; the filtered color values (one per pixel) are provided to a display device without an... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292233 | Apparatus and method to connect an external camera to an LCD without requiring a display buffer A data pipeline and clock control (relationship) that allows image data from a camera to pass directly through a display controller to an LCD without being written into, temporarily stored, and read out of a display buffer, e.g. a VRAM, is provided. Elimination of t... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292729 | Device, system, and method for contiguous compressed data A device, system and method of data compression are provided. The invention includes a receiving module that may be a memory module. The invention also includes a pointer module storing a pointer to a location within the receiving module. The invention allocates a r... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292251 | Virtual telemicroscope A method and system that uses a computer system as a telemicroscope. A plurality of images of a specimen are captured (Digital camera scanner video camera). The images correspond to the entire specimen and a plurality of segments of the specimen (Multiple linked ima... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286720 | Image processing apparatus, image input/output apparatus, scaling method and memory control method The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, an image input/output apparatus, a scaling method and a memory control method, by which input image data is written to an external memory in tiles, the tiles written to the external memory are read, and... | 10/23/2007 |
