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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...
7580042 Systems and methods for storing and fetching texture data using bank interleaving  
In systems and methods for graphic reproduction of an image including textural information, multiple rows or blocks of texture data can be retrieved from system memory in response to the single...
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...
7561168 Color management with tiered caching scheme  
Performing color management of color image data using a device transform by generating an identifier key based on contents of a color measurement profile for a color device, the color measurement...
7557801 Display device and driving method thereof  
In a display device and a control circuit thereof, mounting of a high-capacity memory device for synchronizing the reception cycle of a digital image signal with a drive cycle of the display device...
7545382 Apparatus, system, and method for using page table entries in a graphics system to provide storage format information for address translation  
A graphics system utilizes page table entries to provide information on the storage format used to store graphics data. The page table entries, in turn, may be used for address translation....
7515159 Reconfigurable address generation circuit for image processing, and reconfigurable LSI comprising the same  
A reconfigurable address generation circuit for image processing is configured to an arbitrary state based on configuration data generates a read address for reading out image data of pixel units...
7490190 Method and system for local memory addressing in single instruction, multiple data computer system  
A single instruction, multiple data (“SIMD”) computer system includes a central control unit coupled to 256 processing elements (“PEs”) and to 32 static random access memory (“SRAM”)...
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...
RE39529 Graphic processing apparatus utilizing improved data transfer to reduce memory size  
A Memory Interface and Video Attribute Controller (MIVAC) is inserted between a dynamic RAM (DRAM) capable of a consecutive data read operation, such as the operation associated with the static...
7187372 Image data transmission apparatus and method for image display system  
An image display system comprises: a transmission device (PC) 10 , for transmitting image data upon receiving a drawing command from an OS or an application; and a receiving monitor 40 , for...
7154490 Display driver, electro-optical device, and electronic appliance  
A display driver, electro-optical device and electronic appliance are provided that make unnecessary processing that calculates positions in a RAM where display data is to be written according to a...
7102646 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...
7066611 Alignment with linear array of receptors  
A beam projector is aligned with a linear array of receptors. An alignment receptor is at each end of the linear array of receptors. A beam is projected from the projector. The beam is swept until...
7035991 Surface computer and computing method using the same  
A surface computer includes an address generator for generating an address for adjusting surface region data concerning at least a storage region and a concurrent computer, provided at a subsequent...
6992673 Memory access device, semiconductor device, memory access method, computer program and recording medium  
To provide a drawing device with which drawing speed can be increased without escalation of price of it. A drawing device is established as a GPU on an entertainment device to perform the drawing...
6989825 Display control device  
In order to reduce the power consumed by the circuit when the image data is transferred to a memory in a display means, a write region detecting means 8 is provided to detect the address region...
6985155 Memory device and image processing apparatus using same  
A memory device and an image processing apparatus able to achieve an increase in speed of a region growing algorithm which conventionally involved a long processing time and thereby enabling real...
6975324 Video and graphics system with a video transport processor  
A video and graphics system includes a data transport processor for receiving compressed data streams, a video transport processor for extracting video data, and an audio decode processor for...
6937248 Pixel array with indirectly associated memory  
A pixellated device ( 10 ), such as a display, has pixel row and column address lines ( 18,20 ) for addressing each pixel, thereby providing signal data to each pixel ( 12 ) or reading signal data...
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....
6903744 Graphics processing system  
A system is provided for storing pixel data associated with a predetermined pixel region. The system is configured to store pixel data in a predetermined block of memory along with a fill check bit...
6900812 Logic enhanced memory and method therefore  
A logic enhanced memory that may be used in a video graphics system is presented. The logic enhanced memory includes an operation block that performs a number of operations on a block-by-block...
6870541 RAM incorporated display driver for reducing load on display screen control and image display apparatus including the same display driver  
This invention provides an image display apparatus for displaying data stored in a random access memory (RAM) such as LCD, more specifically a display driver achieving easy and flexible display...
6847370 Planar byte memory organization with linear access  
A graphics memory architecture in which row addresses are permuted, in a basically tile-oriented storage architecture, so that fast parallel access is provided both by scanlines (for video...
6831651 Checkerboard buffer  
Methods and apparatus for storing and retrieving data in parallel but in different orders. In one implementation, data for pixels is stored according to a checkerboard pattern, alternately between...
6831650 Checkerboard buffer using sequential memory locations  
Methods and apparatus for storing and retrieving data in parallel but in different orders. In one implementation, data for pixels is stored according to a checkerboard pattern, alternately between...
6760035 Back-end image transformation  
A method to perform image transformations that are simplistic, conducive to miniaturization, and inexpensive to implement is provided. Transformations of an image stored in system memory are...
RE38471 Method and apparatus for display image rotation  
A method and an apparatus for rotating images on a computer system is disclosed. The system includes a processor for accessing an image frame buffer using a set of CPU addresses, a memory for...
6680736 Graphic display systems having paired memory arrays therein that can be row accessed with 2(2n) degrees of freedom  
A semiconductor memory device of a high degree of freedom in column and a graphics display system using the semiconductor memory device as a mapping memory are provided. The semiconductor memory...
6670960 Data transfer between RGB and YCRCB color spaces for DCT interface  
A method for transferring data between an RGB color space and a YCrCb color space useful for a DCT block-computation engine significantly increases throughput and decreases processor overhead....
6628292 Creating page coherency and improved bank sequencing in a memory access command stream  
A buffer facilitates reordering of incoming memory access commands so that the memory access commands may be associated automatically according to their row/bank addresses. The storage capacity in...
6608626 Hardware rotation of an image on a computer display  
An address generator (FIG. 6 ) of a display controller ( 16 ) includes an adder ( 62 ) that repetitively adds an image-row-offset value to the address generator's address output so that data...
6577318 Integrated circuit device and display device with the same  
An integrated circuit device includes a first memory unit and a conversion part for converting the parallel data read from the first memory unit into serial data. The integrated circuit device also...
6570568 System and method for the coordinated simplification of surface and wire-frame descriptions of a geometric model  
A system simplifies a geometric model to accelerate the rendering of the geometric model. A surface description of the geometric model is stored in one or more of the system memories. A wire-frame...
6567719 Method and apparatus for creating an improved image on a photomask by negatively and positively overscanning the boundaries of an image pattern at inside corner locations  
An method for creating an image on a photosensitive material with enhanced inside corner resolution using a raster scan exposure system. The photosensitive material may comprise a layer of an...
6486884 Apparatus for accessing memory in a video system and method thereof  
A method and apparatus for storing sequential data words associated with a block of data in a non-linear manner within the data block is taught such that any row or column associated with the data...
6356988 Memory access system, address converter, and address conversion method capable of reducing a memory access time  
On storing two-dimensional arrangement data into a memory ( 1 ) having banks, 2 n in number, each of which is individually assigned with a bank number B and includes row addresses identified by...
6307588 Method and apparatus for address expansion in a parallel image processing memory  
A method and apparatus for image processing provides a memory having a plurality of individual parallel buffers constructed from random access memories (RAMs) for storing data related to a group of...
6307649 Mountable scanning device and computer monitor including same  
A scanner includes a housing defining a front housing opening and, in some instances, a rear housing opening and a movable scanner module located within the housing. The scanner with front and rear...
6304266 Method and apparatus for volume rendering  
A volume rendering process is disclosed. Data including a plurality of voxels are recorded. Each voxel includes an opacity-adjusted value representative of a value of a parameter at a location...
6297831 Image generator using display memory  
A graphics system is used with a display capable of displaying a frame of an image via a sequence of scan lines. The graphics system has a memory and an image generator. The image generator is...
6201529 Liquid crystal display apparatus and method of driving the same  
An electrically controlled birifringence type liquid crystal display panel has a pictograph (picto) display area and character display areas. Character codes are stored in a DDRAM and color...
6104416 Tiling in picture memory mapping to minimize memory bandwidth in compression and decompression of data sequences  
A method of storing a picture in a memory such that the latency of the memory can be reduced when retrieving a picture from the memory to be displayed while still reducing the bandwidth when...
6075545 Methods and apparatus for storing, accessing and processing images through the use of row and column pointers  
Methods and apparatus for storing, accessing, and processing information representing images through the use of row and column pointers are described. By manipulating and/or generating new sets of...
6064407 Method and apparatus for tiling a block of image data  
A method and apparatus for tiling a block of image data is accomplished by first receiving a set of parameters that describe the block of image data. An address is determined based on the set of...
6040844 Apparatus and method for storing and accessing picture generation data  
A system for mapping texture data at high speed with flexibility to different applications wherein texture data is sent to a memory interface (MEMIF) thorough a digital differential analyzer (DDA)...
6005592 Image processing apparatus having improved memory access for high speed 3-dimensional image processing  
An image processing apparatus suitable for three-dimensional high speed image processing can be realized by improving the memory address control and the access method, that is, by improving the...
5956049 Hardware that rotates an image for portrait-oriented display  
A system for translating a portrait-oriented software address to a portrait-oriented yet landscape-configured display address. The system includes a central processing unit (CPU), a display device...
5933159 Memory system for processing digital video signal  
A memory system for processing a digital video signal capable of accessing data in block units includes a detector circuit discriminating whether the memory system is in a reading/writing operation...
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