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7619631 Methods and systems for performing anti-aliasing operations with multiple graphics processing units  
A technique for performing an anti-aliasing operation by multiple graphics processing units includes utilizing a first graphics processing unit to generate a first subset of filtered data resulting...
7598959 Display controller  
Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to update video display pixels. A video display bus can communicate data to a video display according to specified clock...
7589734 Data display system, data relay device, data relay method, data system, sink device, and data read method  
A repeater comprises an EDID memory to store a control data and a memory control unit. The memory control unit is configured to make access to the EDID memory to read the control data therefrom,...
7571296 Memory controller-adaptive 1T/2T timing control  
Circuits, methods, and apparatus that adaptively control 1 T and 2 T timing for a memory controller interface. An embodiment of the present invention provides a first memory interface as well as...
7562184 DRAM controller for graphics processing operable to enable/disable burst transfer  
An interface unit 20 assigns different SDRAMs 1 and 2 to adjacent drawing blocks in a frame-buffer area. In processing that extends across the adjacent drawing blocks, active commands, for...
7536511 CPU mode-based cache allocation for image data  
An apparatus includes a central processing unit having an output to provide a status indicator, a graphics controller having an output coupleable to a display interface, a cache comprising a...
7532218 Method and apparatus for memory training concurrent with data transfer operations  
Embodiments of methods and apparatus for memory training concurrent with data transfers are disclosed. For an example embodiment, data may be transferred from a first memory device to a first...
7522171 On-the-fly reordering of 32-bit per component texture images in a multi-cycle data transfer  
A system of processing data in a graphics processing unit having a core configured to process data in hexadecimal form and other graphics modules configured to process data in quads includes a...
7518599 Display control device and method  
A display control device and a display control method for use in a portable electronic apparatus are disclosed. The portable electronic apparatus includes a main controller and a display panel. The...
7505301 Apparatus and method of driving memory for display device  
A display driver having Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) cells and a method of controlling the timing of the display driver are disclosed. The display driver includes memory cells each of which...
7495668 Display controller with display memory circuit  
A display memory circuit includes a drawing memory and a dynamic display memory. The drawing memory stores data and at least a portion of the data are possibly rewritten into a new data at a third...
7490208 Architecture for compact multi-ported register file  
Architecture for compact multi-ported register file is disclosed. In an embodiment, a register file comprises a single-port random access memory (RAM). The single-port RAM comprises a single port...
7489316 Method for frame rate conversion  
A method for converting a frame rate of a video signal comprising a data enable signal by means of a first buffer and a second buffer is disclosed. The method comprises: alternatively accessing the...
7475210 Data stream generation method for enabling high-speed memory access  
An address processing section allocates addresses of desired data in a main memory, input from a control block, to any of three hit determination sections based on the type of the data. If the hit...
7474421 Printing apparatus and method of displaying explanations of printing apparatus  
A printer specifies at least one arbitrary option out of a plurality of options displayed on a display screen as a tentative option, determines the tentative option as a determined option...
7382366 Method, apparatus, system, and graphical user interface for selecting overclocking parameters of a graphics system  
Overclocking parameters in a graphics system are automatically set. In one embodiment, in response to a user request, overclocking parameters for different sets of overclocking parameters are...
7349027 Scan converter  
The scan converter comprises first and second memories 3, 7 , a frame memory 5 ; having a write period and a read period, a video data input circuit 2 for writing data at a first transfer rate...
7202882 Liquid crystal display device  
A liquid crystal display device employing an overshooting driving method is provided which is capable of reducing memory capacity of a frame memory used to delay input data. The above liquid...
7176928 Recovery of a serial bitstream clock at a receiver in serial-over-packet transport  
A receiver for recovering a serial clock of a transmitter is provided. The receiver comprises a buffer configured to store packets received from the transmitter. The packets may be sent through a...
7126608 Graphics processor and system with microcontroller for programmable sequencing of power up or power down operations  
A graphics processor or display device including a microcontroller that functions as a sequencer, a computer system including at least one such graphics processor or display device, and a...
7099989 System and technique to reduce cycle time by performing column redundancy checks during a delay to accommodate variations in timing of a data strobe signal  
A memory device includes a memory cell array, an addressing circuit, a data communication circuit and a control circuit. The addressing circuit receives first signals that are indicative of an...
7081896 Memory request timing randomizer  
Methods and apparatus for changing the timing of memory requests in a graphics system. Reading data from memory in a graphics system causes ground bounce and other electrical noise. The resulting...
7032092 Memory controller for supporting a plurality of different memory accesse modes  
A common DRAM controller is provided for supporting a plurality of memory types such as double data rate or quad data rate mode or types. The controller is adapted to use a number of clock signals...
7030871 Active matrix display device  
This invention is directed to the active matrix display device with an imaging speed rapid enough for the moving image display and the small power consumption. The selector makes the switch between...
6977655 Dual mode DDR SDRAM/SGRAM  
A dual-mode dual-data rate (DDR) synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM)/synchronous graphic random access memory (SGRAM). An exemplary DDR SDRAM/SGRAM comprises a single memory device,...
6924807 Image processing apparatus and method  
An apparatus for processing image data to produce an image for covering an image area of a display includes a plurality of graphics processors, each graphics processor being operable to render the...
6919900 Methods and systems for preparing graphics for display on a computing device  
Disclosed are methods and systems for interfaces between video applications and display screens that allow applications to intelligently use display resources of their host device without tying...
6917365 Processor provided with a slow-down facility through programmed stall cycles  
A processor executes image processing under control of a clock facility, such that a sequence of C effective clock cycles will effect a processing operation of a predetermined amount of image...
6912638 System-on-a-chip controller  
A system-on-a-chip controller having a first processor and a second processor. The first processor provides control processing and image processing. The second processor provides image processing....
6912000 Picture processing apparatus  
A picture processing apparatus is composed of a plurality of picture processing systems. Each picture processing system includes an identical picture processing IC (integrated circuit) and a...
6894692 System and method for sychronizing video data streams  
A system for synchronizing video data streams utilizes a plurality of buffer pairs and buffering logic. The buffering logic is configured to receive image frames from a plurality of asynchronous...
6833833 Feedback path for video benchmark testing  
A feedback path to the processor for a video signal in a computer. The video image data is not normally subjected to benchmark testing because it would make it susceptible to illegal copying. The...
6806883 System and method for handling display device requests for display data from a frame buffer  
A graphics system may include a frame buffer, a processing device coupled to access data in the frame buffer, a frame buffer interface coupled to the frame buffer, and an output controller...
6778175 Method of arbitration of memory request for computer graphics system  
The present invention, a method of the arbitration of memory request for a computer graphics system, consecutively services the requests having the same type in the same period, thereby increasing...
6756988 Display FIFO memory management system  
A display FIFO memory management system and method includes a programmable FIFO emulator for emulating a drain and fill time of the display FIFO memory to automatically predict a number of register...
6750876 Programmable display controller  
A programmable display controller for use in a digital imaging system has a video control register, a data access controller and a programmable modulator. The programmable display control is...
6747656 Image processing apparatus and method of the same, and display apparatus using the image processing apparatus  
An image processing apparatus and method, and a display apparatus capable of preventing field tearing caused by memory overrun even when performing a read operation and a write operation of...
6674423 Drive unit and liquid crystal device  
It is an object to provide a drive unit capable of properly responding to an access request from a microprocessor side and an access request from a display section side, and further of realizing a...
6664968 Display device and image displaying method of display device  
The monitor system comprises the display device which has a screen having a display area virtually divided into a plurality of sub-screens. Provided are graphics adapters, each of which has two...
6657634 Dynamic graphics and/or video memory power reducing circuit and method  
An apparatus and method dynamically controls the graphics and/or video memory power dynamically during idle periods of the memory interface during active system modes. In one embodiment, a memory...
6593939 Image display device and driver circuit therefor  
An image display device includes a display panel having predetermined numbers of pixels defined in horizontal and vertical directions, respectively, and an interpolated-data generation circuit...
6580432 Spread spectrum FIFO and method for storing data for multiple display types  
A FIFO memory device, FIFO control method and graphics processing system are disclosed which incorporate spread-spectrum EMI compensation. In one embodiment, a FIFO memory device and method...
6570572 Line delay generator using one-port RAM  
A line delay generator including a packetizing circuit, one port RAM and a RAM controller. The RAM controller provides the one port RAM with a write command to write packet data generated by the...
6515672 Managing prefetching from a data buffer  
A method and apparatus for preventing over-prefetching from a buffer receives an address of a last data set item in a data buffer, and reads data from the data buffer into a read streamer buffer...
6496192 Modular architecture for image transposition memory using synchronous DRAM  
A memory architecture for a video transpose memory employs SDRAM memory devices which are arranged in memory rows such that elements in a single row may be accessed without memory set-up latency....
6433785 Method and apparatus for improving processor to graphics device throughput  
An embodiment of a memory controller that improves processor to graphics device throughput by reducing the frequency of retries of postable write transaction requests is disclosed. The memory...
6392619 Data transfer device and liquid crystal display device  
In a data transfer circuit, a hold signal generating circuit generates and outputs a hold signal Hold when transmission data is equal to transmission data one cycle before, and sets a 3-state...
6340973 Memory control unit and memory control method and medium containing program for realizing the same  
A transfer-target unit outputs commands for data reading and data writing. An address generator generates control signals in accordance with the commands, and outputs the number of bytes of data...
6192455 Apparatus and method for preventing access to SMRAM space through AGP addressing  
A method for preventing access to a system management random access memory (SMRAM) space is disclosed. The method intercepts access to an accelerated graphics port (AGP) aperture memory space and...
6184905 Method and apparatus for processing video graphics information at different operating rates  
A method and apparatus for processing video data at various optimum operating rates is accomplished by a video graphics circuit that includes a video graphics module, a buffer and a memory...
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