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7623133 |
Method and apparatus for displaying data from multiple frame buffers on a single display device
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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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...
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7616209 |
Prescient cache management
Prescient cache management methods and systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, within a pre-raster engine operations stage in a graphics rendering pipeline, tile entries are stored in a buffer....
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7609273 |
Pixel load instruction for a programmable graphics processor
A pixel load instruction for a programmable graphics processor. The pixel load instruction may be used during processing of graphics data to load graphics data from a writable output buffer into a...
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7595805 |
Techniques to facilitate use of small line buffers for processing of small or large images
The disclosure describes image processing techniques useful for devices that support image processing of different sized images. The techniques can be used in many contexts, and may be particularly...
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7590551 |
System and method for processing patient information
A system and method for displaying medical information derived from a plurality of sources is described. Medical data associated with a patient are acquired from at least one of the plurality of...
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7589737 |
System and method for communicating graphics image data over a communication network
A graphics adapter comprises a frame buffer operable to store graphics image data. The graphics adapter also comprises a network interface operable to receive at least a portion of the graphics...
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7583280 |
Image display device
An image display device that resolution-converts input image data to perform image display. The image display device includes an image memory storing the input image data, a control section...
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7580041 |
Direct storage of compressed scan converted data
Systems and methods for scan converting data into compressed representations of pixel data are described. In one aspect, shape geometry including shape and/or position attributes of one or more...
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7576748 |
Graphics system with embedded frame butter having reconfigurable pixel formats
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...
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7573491 |
Method for formatting images for angle-specific viewing in a scanning aperture display device
A method for formatting images for angle specific viewing in a scanning aperture dimensional display device. Input images are rearranged into slices or sections to create a set of output images....
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7573483 |
Dynamic buffer pages
Methods and apparatus for adjusting the geometry of buffer pages. In one implementation, a buffer page system includes: a data source, providing data elements in a first order; a data destination,...
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7567259 |
System and method for display compositing
A method for display compositing is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a plurality of respective color values and a plurality of respective blending values for a...
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7564462 |
Method and apparatus for reading and writing pixel-aligned subframes in a frame buffer
System and method for reading and writing pixel aligned subframes from a frame buffer in a parallel processing system are disclosed. Optimal bandwidth access of the frame buffer requires that data...
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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...
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7561155 |
Method for reducing transport delay in an image generator
A method for reducing the transport delay in a computer image generator. The first step is dividing a single frame buffer into a plurality of screen bins. Next is storing primitives in each screen...
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7561116 |
Multiple display monitor
A monitor having multiple displays within the same housing. The displays may be, for example, separate LCD panels that are placed in close proximity to one another so as to give the appearance of a...
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7554554 |
Rendering apparatus
A rendering apparatus includes a low-speed frame buffer, and a first temporary memory and a second temporary memory with high-speed and small capacities. A first/second temporary memory rendering...
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7545386 |
Unified mobile display emulator
The conversion of Mobile Display information used in a wide variety of Mobile Devices into Unified Image Formats is disclosed to enable viewing on a desktop computer system in addition to manual...
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7528837 |
Drawing apparatus, drawing method, drawing program and drawing integrated circuit
The present invention aims at, as to a drawing apparatus that stores an image in the frame memory via the cache memory, shortening the time period required for storing an entire image data in the...
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7526024 |
Storing macroblocks for concatenated frames
Presented herein is a system for storing macroblocks for concatenated frames. A decoder system comprises a frame buffer. The frame buffer comprises one or more rows. A particular one of the rows...
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7525550 |
Controller driver, mobile terminal using the same, and display panel driving method
A controller driver includes a color palette circuit configured to hold color palette data indicating a relation of a color reference numbers corresponding to a color and RGB data corresponding to...
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7522167 |
Coherence of displayed images for split-frame rendering in multi-processor graphics system
Coherence of displayed images is provided for a graphics processing systems having multiple processors operating to render different portions of a current image in parallel. As each processor...
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7519781 |
Physically-based page characterization data
Circuits, methods, and apparatus for efficiently storing page characteristics. Page characteristics for memory pages are stored post address translation using addresses for physical locations in...
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7511713 |
Method and apparatus for high rate concurrent read-write applications
The proposed technique provides simultaneous read and writes from a display controller using low-cost SDRAMs. This is achieved, in one example embodiment, by receiving a sequence of video frames at...
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7508398 |
Transparent antialiased memory access
A system and method for providing antialiased memory access includes receiving a request to access a memory address. The memory address is examined to determine if the memory address is within a...
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7490166 |
Remote control of a client's off-screen surface
The performance of distributed systems can be improved when a server remotely controls off-screen surfaces at a client coupled to the server via a communications network. The server instructs the...
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7489315 |
Pixel stream assembly for raster operations
Systems and methods for converting graphics data represented in a hexadecimal form into a quad form may be used to reorganize the graphics data for performing raster operations. Prior to performing...
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7486298 |
Size optimized pixel line to pixel block conversion algorithm
A method to convert line-based pixel data from an imager, e.g. a video camera into block-based pixel data with a minimum of buffer memory size has been achieved. Key of the invention is that as...
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7477260 |
On-the-fly reordering of multi-cycle data transfers
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...
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7477258 |
Method and apparatus for a fast graphic rendering realization methodology using programmable sprite control
A technique for updating computer-graphic digital images comprises coding a position of pixels located in a foreground of a computer-graphic image frame; sending the coded positions of the pixels...
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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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7471218 |
Methods and systems for efficiently storing and retrieving streaming data
Various technologies for efficiently storing and retrieving streaming data are described. Bits of data (e.g., P bits of data) are received and separated into most significant bits (MSB) of data and...
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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...
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7450128 |
Systems and methods of providing image copy and modify commands to a receiver with an associated display
A method comprises providing image copy and modify commands to a receiver. Each copy command causes pixel values in an area of a display associated with the receiver to be copied to another area of...
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7439981 |
Methods and systems for displaying animated graphics 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...
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7432937 |
System and method for concave polygon rasterization
An apparatus and method to render concave polygons. In some embodiments, the method includes setting an alpha buffer of a hardware rasterizer to zero, generating an alpha mask by rendering the...
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7429990 |
Network management card for use in a system for screen image capturing
A network management card is provided to capture a screen image of a host system for transmission over a computer network for remote viewing and remote system management. The network management...
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7427989 |
Raster engine with multiple color depth digital display interface
An improved raster engine adapted to render video data from a frame buffer to one of a plurality of disparate displays is disclosed which comprises an integral bounded video signature analyzer, a...
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7425961 |
Display panel driver unit
To provide an inexpensive display panel driver unit with a built-in memory, which is capable of achieving the same operation as that obtained in using a dual port memory by employing a single port...
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7423642 |
Efficient video frame capturing
A method for capturing images includes associating the pixels with tiles. An input data sequence representing respective current values of the pixels of a currently-captured image frame is...
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7403204 |
Method and apparatus for managing changes in a virtual screen buffer
A remote management controller may include a capture engine and a processor. The capture engine may be configured to: obtain a slice of video data output from a video graphics controller; calculate...
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7397478 |
Various apparatuses and methods for switching between buffers using a video frame buffer flip queue
A method, apparatus, and system are described in which a signal is generated to inhibit the execution of flip commands that cause a flip between buffers of a frame buffer. One or more of the flip...
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7380116 |
System for real-time adaptation to changes in display configuration
A hot-plugging capability for video devices is achieved by shifting the responsibility for recognizing changes in the configuration of a display environment from a computer's operating system to a...
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RE40326 |
Single chip frame buffer and graphics accelerator
A single chip display processor comprised of a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) for storing at least one of graphics and video pixel data, a pixel data unit (PDU) for processing the pixel data,...
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7369135 |
Memory management system having a forward progress bit
A virtual memory system that maintains a list of pages that are required to be resident in a frame buffer to guarantee the eventual forward progress of a graphics application context running on a...
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7365743 |
Assignments for parallel rasterization
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, to rasterize an image by generating assignments and allocating the assignments among multiple processor threads such that no two...
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7355604 |
Image rendering method and image rendering apparatus using anisotropic texture mapping
An image rendering method includes generating pixels in accordance with graphic information, determining a direction of anisotropy of a footprint obtained by projecting the pixel on a texture on...
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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...
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7348987 |
Sparse refresh of display
A method, apparatus, and signal-bearing medium for sending to a display device modified regions of a frame buffer. A frame buffer is divided into the regions, and data in the frame buffer...
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