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7551176 Systems and methods for providing shared attribute evaluation circuits in a graphics processing unit  
Systems and method for providing shared attribute evaluation circuits in a graphics processing unit are provided. One embodiment can be described as a system for evaluating attributes in a graphics...
7546542 User interface incorporating graphically based management of controls  
Methods are disclosed for selectively loading one control at a time based on the location of a selection component relative to a graphical representation of a user interface.
7538772 Graphics processing system with enhanced memory controller  
A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. The system includes a graphics and audio processor including a 3D graphics...
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...
7523324 Method and apparatus for improving bus master performance  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for performing dynamic arbitration of memory accesses by a CPU and at least one bus master interface module based on, at least in part, monitoring a CPU...
7509502 Data processing apparatus and method for merging secure and non-secure data into an output data stream  
The present invention provides a data processing apparatus and method for merging secure and non-secure data. The apparatus comprises at least one processor operable to execute a non-secure process...
7486502 Computer with status display module  
A computer including a chassis, a motherboard, an electronic component, an I/O port and a status display module is provided. The motherboard is disposed in the chassis. The electronic component is...
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...
7466316 Apparatus, system, and method for distributing work to integrated heterogeneous processors  
An integrated circuit includes at least two different types of processors, such as a graphics processor and a video processor. At least one operation is commonly by supported by two different types...
7450130 Adaptive scheduling to maintain smooth frame rate  
Described is an adaptive scheduler associated with a desktop window manager that dynamically controls the rate at which graphics frames are composed. Values corresponding to performance when...
7446773 Apparatus, system, and method for integrated heterogeneous processors with integrated scheduler  
An integrated circuit includes at least two different types of processors. The integrated circuit includes an integrated host and associated scheduler. At least one operation is supported by two or...
7417637 Fairly arbitrating between clients  
An apparatus and method for fairly arbitrating between clients with varying workloads. The clients are configured in a pipeline for processing graphics data. An arbitration unit selects requests...
7400327 Apparatus, system, and method for a partitioned memory  
A memory system having a number of partitions each operative to independently service memory requests from a plurality of memory clients while maintaining the appearance to the memory client of a...
7365752 Video and graphics system with a single-port RAM  
A video and graphics system has an input for receiving compressed video data and an input for receiving graphics data. The compressed video data may include HDTV video and/or SDTV video, and may be...
7253818 System for testing multiple devices on a single system and method thereof  
A method and system is provided for organizing and routing multiple memory requests from a plurality of clients to multiple memories. Requests from a plurality of clients, including a plurality of...
7239326 Method and system for providing edge antialiasing  
A system and method for generating a graphical image on a display is disclosed. The graphical image is generated from data describing at least one object. The display includes a plurality of...
7239323 Color display driving apparatus in a portable mobile telephone with color display unit  
A color display driving apparatus that simultaneously on-screen displays an RGB format color image and a YUV format color image on the same color display unit. A first memory stores YUV data, and a...
7239322 Multi-thread graphic processing system  
The present invention includes a multi-thread graphics processing system and method thereof including a reservation station having a plurality of command threads stored therein. The system and...
7233335 System and method for reserving and managing memory spaces in a memory resource  
System and method for reserving a memory space for multithreaded processing is described. Memory space within a memory resource is allocated responsive to thread type. Examples of thread types for...
7213109 System and method for providing speculative ownership of cached data based on history tracking  
A system and method for managing memory data is provided. Data stored within a main memory may be requested by multiple requesters that may include one or more cache memories. When the data is...
7212211 Data processing system and method, computer program, and recording medium  
The present invention provides data processing technology for making two or more processing units cooperate with one another such that output data from respective groups of processing units (GSM)...
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...
7202871 Texture engine memory access synchronizer  
An arbitration mechanism for balancing memory requests issued by parallel texture pipelines in a multiple pipeline texture engine. The mechanism ensures that, as polygon textures are processed by a...
7180520 Queue partitioning mechanism  
According to one embodiment a chipset is disclosed. The chipset includes a graphics accelerator, a memory controller and a queue mechanism. The queue mechanism includes a first functional unit...
7100118 Graphical user interface engine for embedded systems  
In an embedded system, for instance in a household appliance, in addition to the usual embedded microprocessor/microcontroller there is provided another processor which actually executes a user...
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...
7079146 Image producing device  
An image producing device includes two or more vector processors for conducting geometry processing for expressing the respective images in parallel to produce graphic element lists, a graphic...
7071999 Method for controlling memory in digital system  
Method for controlling a memory in a digital system, including the steps of (a) dividing the memory into a plurality of fixed sized memory blocks, (b) defining at least one of the memory blocks as...
7069387 Optimized cache structure for multi-texturing  
A method for optimizing a cache memory used for multitexturing in a graphics system is implemented. The graphics system comprises a texture memory, which stores texture data comprised in texture...
7064764 Liquid crystal display control device  
A FIFO section having a FIFO memory is provided between a memory control section and a CPU_I/F section in a path through which image data outputted from a CPU is written into the video memory. Data...
7050063 3-D rendering texture caching scheme  
A 3D rendering texture caching scheme that minimizes external bandwidth requirements for texture and increases the rate at which textured pixels are available. The texture caching scheme...
6999086 Video communication terminal and method of controlling memory access in the same  
A communication method apparatus are disclosed, including a common bus; a plurality of multiplexers that communicate with the common bus; a plurality of memories, each in communication with a...
6985153 Sample request mechanism for supplying a filtering engine  
A graphics system comprising a scheduling network, a sample buffer and a plurality of filtering units. The sample buffer is configured to store sample generated by a rendering engine. The plurality...
6977656 Two-layer display-refresh and video-overlay arbitration of both DRAM and SRAM memories  
A graphics system stores graphics data in a dynamic-random-access memory (DRAM) and in a faster static random-access memory (SRAM). A refresh controller reads pixel data from a frame buffer that is...
6963342 Arbitration scheme for efficient parallel processing  
A system and method for assigning operations to multiple pipelines in a graphics system is disclosed. The graphics system may include an arbitration unit coupled to a plurality of calculation...
6954209 Computer CPU and memory to accelerated graphics port bridge having a plurality of physical buses with a single logical bus number  
A core logic chip set in a computer system provides a bridge between processor host and memory buses and a plurality of Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) buses. Each of the plurality of AGP buses...
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...
6914605 Graphic processor and graphic processing system  
The rendering performance of a graphic processor is improved by effectively using a data bus. An externally-input graphics command is stored in a work memory via the data bus. A display data...
6853382 Controller for a memory system having multiple partitions  
A memory system having a number of partitions each operative to independently service memory requests from a plurality of memory clients while maintaining the appearance to the memory client of a...
6812929 System and method for prefetching data from a frame buffer  
A graphics system may include a frame buffer that includes several sets of one or more memory banks and a cache. The frame buffer may load data from one of the memory banks into the cache in...
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...
6795078 Parallel read with source-clear operation  
A memory interface controls read and write accesses to a memory device. The memory device includes a level-one cache, level-two cache and storage cell array. The memory interface includes a data...
6795075 Graphic processor having multiple geometric operation units and method of processing data thereby  
A graphic processor includes first and second buses and a plurality of geometric operation units having an output connected to the second bus, and a circuit to allocate a plurality of ordered data...
6784890 Accelerated graphics port expedite cycle throttling control mechanism  
A method for controlling expedite cycles having the steps of determining the number of clock cycles devoted to expedite data transfer requests made to a component during a predetermined monitoring...
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...
6774903 Palette anti-sparkle enhancement  
An advanced dot-stretch anti-sparkle technique analyzes the stream of display pixels to determine an optimal time for performing the dot-stretch operation. The system searches the stream of display...
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...
6753867 Software architecture which maintains system performance while pipelining data to an MFP and uses shared DLL  
A throttled data pipeline having a limited data-transfer rate for conserving system resources is disclosed. The throttled data pipeline of the present invention includes a source, a destination and...
6720968 Video acquisition system including a virtual dual ported memory with adaptive bandwidth allocation  
A video capture system and method whereby video frames or images, which are received in one of a plurality of possible formats, are acquired and stored into on-board memory in an image format. The...
6704023 3-D graphics chip with embedded DRAMbuffers  
A 3-D graphics chip includes independent internal DRAM buffers each having a wide bandwidth access bus for connection to a 3-D texture rendering drawing engine. The 3-D drawing engine takes...
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