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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111260 | Fast reconfiguration of graphics pipeline state Techniques and technologies are provided for binding resources to particular slots associated with shaders in a graphics pipeline. Resource dependencies between resources being utilized by each shader can be determined, and, based on these resource dependencies, com... | 02/07/2012 |
| 7990391 | Memory system having multiple address allocation formats and method for use thereof A memory system having multiple address allocation methods for graphics data in a computer graphics processing system. The memory system includes a plurality of memory arrays, and a format register having a programmable format flag. The status of the format flag ind... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978199 | Parameter compaction in tile based rendering device A method and apparatus for managing memory usage for three-dimensional computer graphics systems are provided. A scene which is textured and shaded in the system is divided into a plurality of rectangular areas, each including a plurality of picture elements in the ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7928989 | Feedback and record of transformed vertices in a graphics library One embodiment of the invention is a method for storing transformed vertex attributes that includes the steps of allocating memory space for a transform feedback buffer, selecting one or more transformed vertex attributes to store in the transform feedback buffer in... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7893943 | Systems and methods for converting a pixel rate of an incoming digital image frame A system and method for converting a pixel rate of a digital image frame is provided. The system includes a display controller with an embedded buffer and programmable input and output buffers. The input buffer writes lines of the frame at a source pixel rate while ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7733348 | Image processing apparatus, its control method and data management method The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that can make effective use of a memory area. To accomplish this, the image processing apparatus comprises storage means having a first management record storage area for storing a first management record ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7728842 | Image formation processing simulation apparatus and image formation processing simulation method An image formation processing simulation apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives image data to which image formation processing is applied in an image formation processing device; a performing unit that performs simulation of image formation processing ap... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7710426 | Buffer requirements reconciliation Buffers may be shared between components in a system. The components may be loosely coupled, allowing the components to be assembled into various different configurations, and yet buffers may still be shared. A buffer requirements negotiator of the system analyzes t... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7612781 | Memory control method of graphic processor unit A graphic memory is space-divided into a first area and a second area. In the first area, a task corresponding to a predetermined application is executed regardless of which task is processed by a main processor. A switchable area is divided in time so that data rel... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7589736 | System and method for converting a pixel rate of an incoming digital image frame A system and method for converting a pixel rate of a digital image frame is provided. The system includes a display controller with an embedded buffer and programmable input and output buffers. The input buffer writes lines of the frame at a source pixel rate while ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7573484 | Image processing apparatus and controlling method therefor An image processing apparatus for managing a memory device having a plurality of storage areas including a storage area storing out-of-use information and a free area storing no information, the image processing apparatus comprises memory control unit adapted to det... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7417600 | Electronic entertainment and communication system A data processing system and method in which, by way of example, a memory system is coupled to a video game program processing system. The video game program processing system has a predetermined address space for executing programs stored in a program memory portio... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414619 | Display unit and control method thereof A control method to control a display unit in which a video signal is supplied by an external device to display the video signal, the control method including: dividing EDID information of the display unit in essential EDID information that is required to display th... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7403203 | Stacking series of non-power-of-two frame buffers in a memory array Storing frames of data in frame buffers sized to match the frame size when the frame size is not a power-of-two number of bytes is disclosed. The buffer size is chosen to be the largest power-of-two that is less than the frame size. When a frame of data is to be sto... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397480 | System and method for applying accurate three-dimensional volume textures to arbitrary triangulated surfaces Systems and methods for displaying volume data on an arbitrary three-dimensional polygonal surface are disclosed. For each polygon in the polygonal surface, a two-dimensional texture tile is created and these texture tiles are combined to form texture atlases. Each ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397477 | Memory system having multiple address allocation formats and method for use thereof A system and method for decoding memory addresses for accessing a memory system having a plurality of blocks of memory for storing data at addressable memory locations. Memory addresses are decoded to access the addressable memory locations of a first block of memor... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394466 | Method for memory allocation for images In a method for memory allocation for images, when storing data describing an image (10) in operating memory (1), the image (10) is divided into lines, and each line is described by a separate subset of data from which at least one set of data i... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7386651 | System, method, and apparatus for efficiently storing macroblocks Presented herein is a system for storing macroblocks for such that all vertically, horizontally, and diagonally adjacent macroblock are stored in different banks. When fetching a block from a reference frame that overlaps four macroblocks, each of the overlapped mac... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7372466 | Image processing apparatus and method of same An image processing apparatus, able to suppress occurrence of a penalty such as page miss and able to efficiently draw an image, provided with a triangle transfer control device for judging whether a triangle is inside/outside a page, detecting a page where a triang... | 05/13/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7369612 | Video decoder and method for using the same A video decoder and a method for using the same are provided. Selected frames of a video stream are trimmed during the decoding of the video stream. The video stream is received. The video stream includes, I, P, and B frames. Only predetermined portions of each B fr... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365908 | Tiling of panels for multiple-image displays A large-area display is composed of two or more adjacent panels, in which the overall display provides a consistent perception of depth (and/or other characteristics of the images) in all panels from each viewing position. This is accomplished by generating a first ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363544 | Program debug method and apparatus The present invention provides for an apparatus employed to debug a program operating in a supplemental processor when the processor's registers are not readable directly by the debugging operation of a main processor. A program operating in main memory halts due to... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360035 | Atomic read/write support in a multi-module memory configuration Efficient transfer of data to and from random access memory is described. Multiple request sources and a memory system comprise memory modules having memory banks, each bank containing rows of data. The retrieval comprises transferring all data pursuant to a given r... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355601 | System and method for transfer of data between processors using a locked set, head and tail pointers A CPU module includes a host element configured to perform a high-level host-related task, and one or more data-generating processing elements configured to perform a data-generating task associated with the high-level host-related task. Each data-generating process... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347570 | Multimedia presentation apparatus and method A multimedia presentation apparatus and method by which a presenter is freed from the requirement of having or providing or transporting a supporting computer system such as the notebook or laptop system by the incorporation of computing capability and an accessible... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348990 | Multi-dimensional texture drawing apparatus, compressing apparatus, drawing system, drawing method, and drawing program As for a multi-dimensional texture constituted by a plurality of textures different in photographing environment such as a viewing position or lighting conditions, texture images constituting the multi-dimensional texture are rearranged block by block or pixel by pi... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7339592 | Simulating multiported memories using lower port count memories An apparatus and method for simulating a multiported memory using lower port count memories as banks. A portion of memory is allocated for storing data associated with a thread. The portion of memory allocated to a thread may be stored in a single bank or in multipl... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336283 | Efficient hardware A-buffer using three-dimensional allocation of fragment memory A method and apparatus for arranging fragments in a graphics memory. Each pixel of a display has a corresponding list of fragments in the graphics memory. Each fragment describes a three-dimensional surface at a plurality of sample points associated with the pixel. ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336268 | Point-to-point display system having configurable connections An exemplary point-to-point display system comprises a host system, a timing controller, and a display. The host system is configured to provide data for display. The timing controller is configurable to provide data swapping, bus swapping, bit swapping, and combina... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330187 | Hybrid processing of OpenGL display list commands A hybrid method or apparatus for processing OpenGL display list commands. A deamon intercepts display list commands issued by a client to an OpenGL stack. Responsive to a newList [list commands] endList sequence: the daemon stores a representation of a first subset ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330942 | Method for efficient virtualization of physical memory in a virtual-machine monitor Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to efficient provision, by a virtual-machine monitor, of a virtual, physical memory interface to guest operating systems and other programs and routines interfacing to a computer system through a virtual-mach... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327370 | Memory controller hub interface A memory controller hub includes a graphics subsystem adapted to perform graphics operations on data, and interface circuitry adapted selectively to couple the graphics subsystem to a local memory through electrical connectors and to couple the memory controller hub... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324106 | Translation of register-combiner state into shader microcode An apparatus and method for translating fixed function state into a shader program. Fixed function state is received and stored and when a new shader program is detected the fixed function state is translated into shader program instructions. Registers specified by ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317456 | Method and apparatus for transforming point cloud data to volumetric data A method and apparatus are provided for transforming an irregular, unorganized cloud of data points (100) into a volumetric data or “voxel” set (120). Point cloud (100) is represented in a 3D cartesian coordinate system having an x-axis, a y... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318142 | System and method for dynamically adjusting read ahead values based upon memory usage A system and method for dynamically altering a Virtual Memory Manager (VMM) Sequential-Access Read Ahead settings based upon current system memory conditions is provided. Normal VMM operations are performed using the Sequential-Access Read Ahead values set by the us... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7312800 | Color correction of digital video images using a programmable graphics processing unit A system which utilizes the processing capabilities of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in the graphics controller. Each frame of each video stream or track is decoded into a buffer and a color profile indicating parameters of the color space of the video source i... | 12/25/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7310102 | System and method for applying accurate three-dimensional volume textures to arbitrary triangulated surfaces Systems and methods for displaying volume data on an arbitrary three-dimensional polygonal surface are disclosed. For each polygon in the polygonal surface, a two-dimensional texture tile is created and these texture tiles are combined to form texture atlases. Each ... | 12/18/2007 |
