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6636221 Graphics processing system with enhanced bus bandwidth utilization and method therefore  
A graphics processing system that includes a graphic processing circuit and an enhanced memory circuit is presented. The graphics processing circuit performs the rendering of graphics primitives to...
6631423 System and method for assessing performance optimizations in a graphics system  
A system for identification and assessment of performance optimizations implemented in the graphics environment, the identification and assessment of the performance optimizations based upon an...
6630935 Geometric engine including a computational module for use in a video graphics controller  
A computation module and/or geometric engine for use in a video graphics processing circuit includes memory, a computation engine, a plurality of thread controllers, and an arbitration module. The...
6624818 Method and apparatus for shared microcode in a multi-thread computation engine  
A method and apparatus for supporting shared microcode in a multi-thread computation engine is presented. Each of a plurality of thread controllers controls a thread of a plurality of threads that...
6624816 Method and apparatus for scalable image processing  
An apparatus for scalable image processing includes a display, multiple graphics functional units and a mode selector. Each of the graphics functional units has a configuration of a predetermined...
6624813 Three-dimensional graphics processor and its drafting method using parallel scanning lines as processing unit  
The present invention, a three-dimensional graphics processor and its drafting method using parallel scan-ning lines as processing unit, makes use of a data base memory to completely receive and...
6621493 Metafile compression  
A Windows® metafile is compressed by first processing individual records. In some types of records, record type indicators are mapped to values having fewer significant bits than the original...
6621490 Method and apparatus for motion compensation using hardware-assisted abstraction layer  
A method and apparatus for motion compensation using a hardware-assisted abstraction layer is provided. A translator is added in the form of a set-up engine to convert graphics commands to a data...
6618759 Immediate mode computer graphics command caching  
For networked client-server computer graphics systems, performance is improved by caching immediate mode graphics commands in the server host. Two types of immediate mode command packets are...
6614438 Data-processing arrangement for processing different types of data  
A data-processing arrangement [DPA] is capable of processing different types of data [I, II, III] such as, for example, luminance (Y) and chrominance (UV) pixels from various pictures. The...
6614437 Apparatus and method for efficient memory utilization in an electronic system  
An apparatus and method for efficient memory utilization in an electronic system comprises a memory divided into memory units of equal size, a data source, and an interface between the memory and...
6611269 Video display unit and program recording medium  
A video display unit according to the present invention is provided with a multipurpose arithmetic unit for generating display data by carrying out at least one operation within one period of the...
6593929 High performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing  
A low cost high performance three dimensional (3D) graphics system is disclosed that can model a world in three dimensions and project the model onto a two dimensional viewing plane selected based...
6587111 Graphic processor and data processing system  
A graphic processor including a rendering control circuit which carries out weighted averaging on pieces of pixel data of source image information arranged to form a pixel-data matrix corresponding...
6577320 Method and apparatus for processing multiple types of pixel component representations including processes of premultiplication, postmultiplication, and colorkeying/chromakeying  
A method is provided for processing multiple types of pixel component representations. The method first includes identifying a plurality of texels in a texture pattern grid that correspond to a...
6570579 Graphics display system  
A graphics integrated circuit is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, a graphics input and an audio input...
6570571 Image processing apparatus and method for efficient distribution of image processing to plurality of graphics processors  
An image processing apparatus comprising a plurality of graphics processors is disclosed. Each of the graphics processors calculates a load of its own processing on the basis of inputted and being...
6570570 Parallel processing processor and parallel processing method  
A parallel processing processor for processing images including α data indicative of pixel transparency. The parallel processing processor comprises: a plurality of execution units for executing...
6563505 Method and apparatus for executing commands in a graphics controller chip  
A graphics controller circuit for minimizing an amount of data received from a host. The graphics controller circuit includes a register file with a plurality of registers. The graphics controller...
6556197 High performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing  
A low cost high performance three dimensional (3D) graphics system is disclosed that can model a world in three dimensions and project the model onto a two dimensional viewing plane selected based...
6545683 Apparatus and method for increasing the bandwidth to a graphics subsystem  
An apparatus and method is provided that increases the throughput of graphics commands transferred between a system bridge and a graphics subsystem. In one embodiment, the apparatus tags each of...
6542989 Single instruction having op code and stack control field  
A processor comprises an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) that co-operates with a stack arrangement (STCK). The processor is arranged to execute instructions (INSTR) which include a stack control field...
6542160 Re-generating a displayed image  
The present invention is a method and apparatus to re-generate a displayed image. Graphic information is retrieved from a first storage. A graphic controller uses the graphic information to...
6515671 Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for a vertex attribute buffer in a graphics processor  
A method, apparatus and article of manufacture are provided for managing vertex data in a vertex buffer. First, vertex data is received and stored in the vertex buffer. Thereafter, the vertex data...
6515670 Graphics system and method for minimizing the idle time of a host processor in the graphics system  
A graphics system minimizes the idle time of a host processor while sending a large amount of graphics instructions in a graphics system. The graphics system includes a host processor, a system...
6504547 Standardization of graphics system logical frame buffer  
A method for implementing a bitmapped graphics system involves creating a logical frame buffer for a program. The method attaches a standardization operation to the logical frame buffer, so that...
6496195 Method and apparatus for automatically displaying and manipulating identifiers of a mechanical design  
Computer instructions that operate to determine if one or more geometry pieces of a mechanical design are within a view boundary and automatically generate and order one or more identifiers...
6489963 Application program interface for a graphics system  
An interface for a graphics system includes simple yet powerful constructs that are easy for an application programmer to use and learn. Features include a unique vertex representation allowing the...
6469704 System and method for combined execution of graphics primitive data sets  
Graphics call sequence optimizer in a graphics system that includes a display list memory to store graphics calls to be executed. The optimizer optimizes an original graphics call sequence that...
6466218 Graphics system interface  
An interface for a graphics system includes simple yet powerful constructs that are easy for an application programmer to use and learn. Features include a unique vertex representation allowing the...
6466217 Method and apparatus for ensuring backward compatibility in a bucket rendering system  
A method and apparatus of rendering an image is disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphic system has a switch detector, which detects a switch condition in the graphics system. The graphics system...
6462743 Pipeline processing system and method  
A novel pipeline processing system includes a parameter bus and a command processor. The command processor receives a command, generates a word in response to the command, and transmits the word on...
6456290 Application program interface for a graphics system  
An interface for a graphics system includes simple yet powerful constructs that are easy for an application programmer to use and learn. Features include a unique vertex representation allowing the...
6452600 Graphics system interface  
An interface for a graphics system includes simple yet powerful constructs that are easy for an application programmer to use and learn. Features include a unique vertex representation allowing the...
6452599 Method and apparatus for generating a specific computer hardware component exception handler  
A method and apparatus for generating a specific computer hardware component exception handler and emulating memory accesses to such a hardware component include processing steps that begin by...
6445386 Method and apparatus for stretch blitting using a 3D pipeline  
A method and apparatus for image scaling is provided. A 3D pipeline comprises a command stream controller to enable a rectangle mode. The 3D pipeline including a windower to produce addresses for...
6431982 Video game system using radar picture  
Using a game system, an operator performs a virtual play in which soccer player characters on a virtual field are divided into two teams that compete to handle a ball and to carry the ball into a...
6430696 Method and apparatus for high speed data capture utilizing bit-to-bit timing correction, and memory device using same  
A bus capture circuit captures digital signals applied on respective lines of a bus. The bus capture circuit includes a clock delay circuit that generates an internal clock signal responsive to an...
6424348 Application program interface for a graphics system  
An interface for a graphics system includes simple yet powerful constructs that are easy for an application programmer to use and learn. Features include a unique vertex representation allowing the...
6421738 Method and system for capturing and encoding full-screen video graphics  
A method and system for encoding video graphics of displayed on a monitor of a computer system. Graphical API function calls are hooked so that when a graphical API routine is called the graphical...
6421058 Graphics command stream for calling a display object in a graphics system  
An interface for a graphics system includes simple yet powerful constructs that are easy for an application programmer to use and learn. Features include a unique vertex representation allowing the...
6417858 Processor for geometry transformations and lighting calculations  
A processor for computer graphics calculations comprising an entire graphics engine in a single integrated circuit. The processor includes a transform mechanism adapted to compute transforms for...
6414692 Graphics processing apparatus and system  
A graphics processing apparatus includes a drawn field register which stores coordinate values of boundaries of a drawn field, and an end point coordinate register which stores coordinate values of...
6411301 Graphics system interface  
An interface for a graphics system includes simple yet powerful constructs that are easy for an application programmer to use and learn. Features include a unique vertex representation allowing the...
6405267 Command reordering for out of order bus transfer  
A system and method for increasing effective bus bandwidth in communicating with a graphics device. Graphics commands and associated parameters are written into a contiguous region of system memory...
6392654 Method and apparatus for processing data with improved concurrency  
A method and apparatus for processing data with improved concurrency that begins when a host processor an application identifies a memory block of a plurality of memory blocks based on memory block...
6384833 Method and parallelizing geometric processing in a graphics rendering pipeline  
The geometric processing of an ordered sequence of graphics commands is distributed over a set of processors by the following steps. The sequence of graphics commands is partitioned into an ordered...
6381690 Processor for performing subword permutations and combinations  
An apparatus for operating on the contents of an input register to generate the contents of an output register which contains a permutation, with or without repetitions, or a combination of the...
6380942 Packetized command interface to a graphics processor  
A method and apparatus for transferring commands to a graphics processor is provided. The method and apparatus are intended for use in a host computer system having a memory that is addressable by...
6377263 Intelligent software components for virtual worlds  
A system and method for creating a virtual reality is defined. The virtual reality is efficiently constructed by providing a framework, or paradigm, in which the various aspects of the virtual...
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