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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8169444 | Bit block transfer circuit and method thereof and color filling method A bit block transfer (Bitblt) circuit includes a read register, a write register, a bit shifting circuit and an overflowing register. The read register stores decomposition data including original data. The bit shifting circuit shifts the decomposition data in the r... | 05/01/2012 |
| 7782331 | Cross-platform runtime code generation for bit block transfer functions An exemplary method for performing a bit block transfer (bitblt) includes receiving one or more graphics parameters specifying the bitblt and generating a specialized bitblt function to perform the bitblt. The specialized bitblt function includes a one or more code ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7508397 | Rendering of disjoint and overlapping blits Methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented for modifying data in memory associated with an image, involving processing data operations in a pipelined process affecting data in memory corresponding to the image. The data operations include a first data operation... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7460128 | Image drawing apparatus In an image drawing apparatus for conducting a data transfer at a bit unit for image data stored in a memory device, a region storing part stores a region where at least one attribute value concerning a pixel is not constant in the image data, an attribute value sto... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7379070 | Cross-platform runtime code generation for bit block transfer functions An exemplary method for performing a bit block transfer (bitblt) includes receiving one or more graphics parameters specifying the bitblt and generating a specialized bitblt function to perform the bitblt. The specialized bitblt function includes a one or more code ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7370252 | Interleaving apparatus and method for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing transmitter An interleaving apparatus and method for an OFDM transmitter are provided. The interleaving apparatus comprises a memory unit, a memory write/read control unit, a memory access address generation unit, and a second permutation and output selection unit. The memory u... | 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 |
| 7356823 | Method for displaying single monitor applications on multiple monitors driven by a personal computer A direct access driver solves limitations of DirectX operation under the Microsoft architecture when using multiple monitors. The direct access driver allows applications employing DirectX application program interfaces to use hardware acceleration without display e... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7310100 | Efficient graphics pipeline with a pixel cache and data pre-fetching An efficient graphics pipeline with a pixel cache and data pre-fetching. By combining the use of a pixel cache in the graphics pipeline and the pre-fetching of data into the pixel cache, the graphics pipeline of the present invention is able to take best advantage o... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307634 | Systems and methods for efficiently displaying graphics on a display device regardless of physical orientation The method of one embodiment for the invention is for the CPU to read a subset of consecutive pixels from RAM and cache each such pixel in the WC Cache (and load corresponding blocks into the L2 Cache). These reads and loads continue until the capacity of the L2 Cac... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7275026 | Implicit frame-based processing for block-diagram simulation A run-time, frame-based processing mechanism executes a block diagram model by propagating frame attributes information from blocks on which a user specified the frame attributes information to all other blocks in the block diagram model. The frame attributes inform... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7222305 | Method of sharing a desktop with attendees of a real-time collaboration A method of facilitating the reproduction of a presenter's desktop for attendees of a real-time collaboration. A bound portion of the desktop (the portion shared with the attendees) is logically divided into clusters. When the content of a cluster changes, the clust... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218327 | Font memory for a display A font memory for a display includes a ROM with a storage region divided into a program storing region and a font data storing region, divided into a mono-font data storing region and a color font data storing region, and designed to map and store data in three segm... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7213127 | System for producing addresses for a digital signal processor A system for generating addresses for a digital signal processor in which the program instructions include a code for accessing a memory associated with said processor. An address calculation circuit calculates each access address to the memory on the basis of opera... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7164483 | Optimal approach to perform raster operations Raster operations (ROPs) are executed using a few core blocks which implement the logical operations (e.g., AND, OR, XOR) forming the basis for the raster operations. In an embodiment, the core blocks are generated only for the basic Boolean operations namely AND, O... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7119808 | Multiple parallel processor computer graphics system An accelerated graphics processing subsystem that significantly increases the processing speed of computer graphics commands. The preferred embodiment of this invention presents a first-of-its-kind graphics processing subsystem that combines the processing power of ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7106347 | Transforming pixel data and addresses In a passive pixel data handling system, pixel data may be transferred to a transfer function, at a given address range. The transfer function may perform a transformation and readdress the pixel data. For example, the data may be received through a media port targe... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7096312 | Data transfer device and method for multidimensional memory The invention provides a data transfer device for multidimensional memory capable of performing an efficient SIMD operation and suitable for transferring data between a multidimensional memory and a one-dimensional memory. A DMAC reads data of a rectangular area in ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7061499 | Image drawing apparatus An image drawing apparatus includes a first data reading unit which stores a source image data into a first image data buffer. A second data reading unit reads a destination image data from a destination area of a memory device and stores the destination image data ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061496 | Image data processing system and image data reading and writing method An image data processing system with a memory performing burst read/write operations. The memory includes a memory cell array provided with memory cells arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. The image data processing system further includes a c... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7048723 | Surface micromachined microneedles Surface micro-machined micro-needles (32) are formed as single needles (32) or in two-dimensional or three-dimensional micro-needle arrays (30). The micro-needles (32) are fabricated on a substrate (12) which can remain attached to... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7027060 | Method and apparatus for accelerating 2-D graphic data Provided are a method and apparatus for accelerating graphic data which can reduce the computational complexity of graphic processing data. The method of accelerating two-dimensional graphic data includes: receiving information regarding the width of a graphic windo... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7012849 | Semiconductor, image output device, and driving method of a functional device The invention provides a semiconductor device of low power consumption and low cost. A semiconductor device 50 is basically constituted of a semiconductor substrate 1 and an external signal processing substrate 8. The semiconductor substr... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6995698 | Method and apparatus of converting a series of data words into modulated signals The present invention relates to method and apparatus of modulating a series of data words into (d,k) constrained sequence in order to record onto a recording medium. The present method generates, for each data word, a number of alternative sequences by combining mu... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6992677 | System and method for accelerating two-dimensional graphics in a computer system A system and method for accelerating 2D graphics in a computer system is disclosed, which has an graphic chip to perform graphic commands, each graphic command having an operation of a source pixel, a pattern and a destination pixel; and a 2D graphic device driver t... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6976121 | Apparatus and method to track command signal occurrence for DRAM data transfer An apparatus and a method to track command signal occurrence for DRAM data transfer have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an interface to couple to a data bus, the data bus to transfer data between the interface and one or more memory device... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6976120 | Apparatus and method to track flag transitions for DRAM data transfer A method and an apparatus to track transition of a flag signal for DRAM data transfer have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes one or more memory devices, coupled to a data bus, to receive a command signal, wherein the command signal initiates ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6972770 | Method and apparatus for performing raster operations in a data processing system A method and apparatus in a data processing system for performing a raster operation of graphics data. A system memory and a video memory is included in the data processing system. The system memory and the video memory are connected by a bus wherein the graphics da... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6961064 | System and method for combining graphics formats in a digital video pipeline Generally, graphics are displayed on a monitor or printed on an output device after a series of steps are performed, typically implemented in the form of a graphics pipeline, in the case of an object-oriented graphic image. Similarly, a digital picture or digital vi... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6952217 | Graphics processing unit self-programming A method of self-programming a graphics processing unit (GPU) includes receiving a blit instruction defining a blit operation and storing a first control value in a control register, which determines the behavior of the GPU, using the blit operation. The blit instru... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6943804 | System and method for performing BLTs Systems and methods are provided for performing a BLT (BLock Transfer). In accordance with one embodiment, a method uses a texture-mapping subsystem to perform the BLT by configuring the texture-mapping subsystem with coordinate values corresponding to a block of pi... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6931949 | Apparatus for measuring the weight of small items The invention provides an apparatus for measuring the mass and calculating the weight of individual objects to be held thereby, comprising forceps having a proximal portion and a distal portion, the proximal portion being adapted to grasp and hold a selected object,... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6930692 | Modified weighted bit planes for displaying grey levels on optical arrays In a method of multi-level spatial light modulation, using a weighted bit plane technique where an n-digit binary number represents the intended grey level of each pixel location in an array of binary pixels, representative binary numbers are altered to closely adja... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6930662 | Liquid crystal display apparatus, image signal correction circuit, and electronic apparatus A subtractor obtains a difference between an image signal, which is supplied in accordance with horizontal scanning and vertical scanning, and which carries information corresponding to a gray level of a pixel and a reference signal Ref representing a predetermined ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6924813 | Technique for eliminating stale information from a computer graphics buffer A method of eliminating stale information from a computer graphics buffer. The method facilitates switching from a fast clear mode to a non fast clear mode during the lifetime of a region of interest such as a window: A clear count value associated with a pixel is r... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6903744 | Graphics processing system A system is provided for storing pixel data associated with a predetermined pixel region. The system is configured to store pixel data in a predetermined block of memory along with a fill check bit indicative of whether or not values for each pixel within the pixel ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6900813 | Method and apparatus for improved graphics rendering performance A method and apparatus determines if a BLT command meets BLT override criteria. If the BLT override criteria is met, the method and apparatus performs a BLT command override and instead executes a FLIP operation instead of performing a BLT operation. ... | 05/31/2005 |
| 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 |
