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7623134 |
System and method for hardware-based GPU paging to system memory
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for processing address page requests in a GPU system that is implementing a virtual memory model. A hardware-based page fault manager...
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7595804 |
Systems and methods for displaying individual processor usage in a multiprocessor system
A display of CPU utilization in a multiprocessor system is provided. This feature illustrates processor utilization and application group assignments to CPUs and clusters of CPUs. Various graphic...
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7593016 |
Method and apparatus for high density storage and handling of bit-plane data
In an image processing system, high density storage of bit-plane data is provided in a secondary or page memory as well as high bandwidth access to the data by an image processor. The page memory...
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7555527 |
Efficiently linking storage object replicas in a computer network
A system and method for efficiently linking together replicas of a storage object. The location of a first replica of the storage object may be stored on a node in a network. When new replicas of...
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7554551 |
Decoupling a color buffer from main memory
A display color buffer in a unified memory architecture is decoupled from main memory by partitioning the address space for the color buffer into a frame-preparation memory accessed by a graphics...
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7545383 |
Information processing system, information processor, information processing method, and program
An information processing system includes a first information processor to process data to be displayed in a first display unit and a second information processor to indicate the data displayed in...
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7528838 |
Video memory management
A video memory manager manages and virtualizes memory so that an application or multiple applications can utilize both system memory and local video memory in processing graphics. The video memory...
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7511714 |
Video format conversion using 3D graphics pipeline of a GPU
Video conversion using a 3D graphics pipeline of a graphical processing unit (GPU) is disclosed. A plurality of video data formatted in a first video format is accessed from a memory unit....
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7489320 |
System and method for conserving memory bandwidth while supporting multiple sprites
A system and method for conserving memory bandwidth while supporting multiple sprites includes a memory device that stores main display data and the multiple sprites for presentation upon a display...
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7486297 |
Method and apparatus for image processing in a handheld device
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for image processing using a graphics processor in a handheld device including a first memory device receiving a video input signal containing...
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7483042 |
Video graphics module capable of blending multiple image layers
A video graphics module capable of blending multiple image layers includes a plurality of video graphic pipelines, each of which is operable to process a corresponding image layer. One of the video...
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7483035 |
Texture cache control using a data dependent slot selection scheme
Provided are methods, systems, and graphics processing apparatus, for improving graphics system performance using a data dependent slot and set selection technique for receiving texture data into...
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7477205 |
Method and apparatus for displaying data from multiple frame buffers on one or more display devices
A computer system including a processor, a display, and a graphics unit coupled between the processor and the display, in which the processor is configured to perform multi-display operations which...
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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...
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7474312 |
Memory redirect primitive for a secure graphics processing unit
In one embodiment of the present invention, a GPU contains an authentication module at the front end, and a memory security engine and graphic memory interface at the backend. In one embodiment of...
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7466317 |
Method and system for managing graphics objects in a graphics display system
A method and system for controlling the algorithmic elements in 3D graphics systems via an improved 3D graphics API is provided. In one aspect, in a 3D graphics system having privatized formats...
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7446776 |
Display controller with DRAM graphic memory
A system, a circuit and a method are given, to realize a display control and driver interface with graphic display memory, whereby the use of dynamic RAM rather than static RAM for this graphic...
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7444593 |
Disk space management and clip remainder during edit operations
The method of storing a time based stream of information to generate a presentation is provided for in which a processing system is used. The methods provide for deleting a selected time based...
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7397476 |
Projector, projection display system, and corresponding method and recording medium
In response to a requirement of transferring a file from a personal computer PC to a projector 10 that is output by dragging and dropping a corresponding file icon onto a projector icon, a CPU ...
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7394465 |
Displaying an image using memory control unit
A memory control unit controls the transfer of image data from a video buffer to a frame buffer, and from the frame buffer to a display, to be performed block by block. Image data is written from a...
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7365750 |
User identity authentication system and user identity authentication method and mobile telephonic device
It is an object to provide an user identity authentication system and an user identity authentication method with the Internet and a mobile information communication device. The mobile information...
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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...
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7342589 |
System and method for managing graphical data
A system and method for managing graphical information are disclosed. The system includes a processing device, first and second memory portions within at least one memory device coupled to the...
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7310096 |
HEAD/DATA request in 3D graphics
A method for efficiently processing graphics data for graphics primitives, the graphics data including vertex coordinate information and vertex attribute data. Coordinate information, in the form...
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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...
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7304646 |
Image data structure for direct memory access
A method is provided for transferring data for processing of an image between a first memory and a second memory accessible by a processor. According to such method, data is provided in the first...
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7292239 |
Cull before attribute read
The VPC unit and setup unit of a graphics processing subsystem perform culling operations. The VPC unit performs culling operations on geometric primitives falling within a specific criteria, such...
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7280111 |
API communications for vertex and pixel shaders
A three-dimensional API for communicating with hardware implementations of vertex shaders and pixel shaders having local registers. With respect to vertex shaders, API communications are provided...
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7256789 |
Programmable display device
It comprises a main CPU, a main memory for storing the programs, display data and other data, a data processing circuit for performing a processing to convert the display data in the main memory to...
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7243253 |
Repeating switching of a cross-connect and a timing source in a network element through the use of a phase adjuster
A method and apparatus for enabling repeated switching of a cross-connect and a timing source in a network element through the use of a phase adjuster. In one embodiment, a traffic card includes an...
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7196709 |
Display device and display system using the same
Provided are a display device with low power consumption which enables reduction of an operation processing amount of a GPU and which does not require a storage device for storing image data...
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7187384 |
Systems and methods for downloading custom or prefabricated processing routines to programmable graphics chips
A method and system for controlling the algorithmic elements in 3D graphics systems via an improved 3D graphics API is provided. In one aspect, in a 3D graphics system having privatized formats...
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7180522 |
Apparatus and method for distributed memory control in a graphics processing system
A distributed memory controller memory system for a graphics processing system having addressable memory areas each coupled to a respective memory controller. The memory controllers are further...
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7167182 |
Scalable multiparty conferencing and collaboration system and method of dynamically allocating system resources in same
A networking conferencing and collaboration tool utilizing an enhanced T.128 application sharing protocol. This enhanced protocol is based on a per-host model command, control, and communication...
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7148888 |
Head/data request in 3D graphics
A method for efficiently processing graphics data for graphics primitives, the graphics data including vertex coordinate information and vertex attribute data. Coordinate information, in the form...
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7109987 |
Method and apparatus for dual pass adaptive tessellation
A method and apparatus for dual pass adaptive tessellation includes a vertex grouper tessellator operably coupled to receive primitive information and an index list and a shader processing unit...
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7088322 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device capable of displaying a still image with low consumption power is provided. In the semiconductor device incorporated with a semiconductor display device capable of displaying...
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7030849 |
Robust LCD controller
An LCD controller ( 10 ) has a DMA unit ( 18 ) and a FIFO memory ( 20 ) for storing display data. The LCD controller also has a display data generator ( 26 ) that generates display information...
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7027058 |
Host device, image display device, image display system, image display method, panel attribute reading-out method and image display control method
To make it possible to execute the same application regardless of the number of connected panels even in a multi-panel environment. A host system, which transfers an image signal to a plurality of...
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7012576 |
Intelligent display interface
A video display system that co-locates a video display memory with the video display device, and transmits to the display device those portions of the image data that have changed rather than...
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7006112 |
Method for scaling image frame
A method for scaling an image frame by an off-screen technology is provided. An image frame consisting of n rows and m columns of data is stored into a storage device. The image frame is divided...
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6956579 |
Private addressing in a multi-processor graphics processing system
Systems and methods for private addressing in a multi-processor graphics processing subsystem having a number of memories and a number of graphics processors. Each of the memories includes a number...
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6943800 |
Method and apparatus for updating state data
In a graphics processing circuit, up to N sets of state data are stored in a buffer such that a total length of the N sets of state data does not exceed the total length of the buffer. When a...
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6943798 |
Method and system for executing SIMD instructions using graphics technology
A method and system are provided for executing SIMD instructions using graphics technology. A SIMD instruction is received and interpreted. The specific data needed for the SIMD instruction is...
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6927776 |
Data transfer device and method
The data transfer device for transferring data between a system bus and a local memory having a frame buffer region and a general region includes an interface section and a data processor. The...
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6917364 |
Method and apparatus for managing texture memory in a data processing system
A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for managing a set of memory resources used to store texture objects in a data processing system. A texture manager allocates memory to a...
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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...
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6897874 |
Method and apparatus for providing overlay images
A circuit for providing an overlay in a window on a computer output display including scaling circuitry, storage circuitry for receiving a plurality of lines of source data, input circuitry for...
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6897873 |
Display control apparatus having replaceable color palette
A display control apparatus contains a video memory, a video memory controller, a color palette memory and a color palette replacer signal generator. The video memory stores display data that are...
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6856320 |
Demand-based memory system for graphics applications
A memory system and methods of operating the same that drastically increase the efficiency in memory use and allocation in graphics systems. In a graphics system using a tiled architecture, instead...
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