Patent Examiner: Chauhan; U.

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Method and apparatus for improving depth information communication bandwidth in a computer graphics system
Inventor: Huang, et al. | Patent Number: 7061487

Media composition system with enhanced user interface features
Inventor: Garmon, et al. | Patent Number: 6118444

System and method for simultaneously displaying a plurality of video data objects having a different bit per pixel formats
Inventor: Dye | Patent Number: 6108014

Design and method for a large, virtual workspace
Inventor: Walls, et al. | Patent Number: 6088005

Dual purpose apparatus, method and system for accelerated graphics port and fibre channel arbitrated loop interfaces
Inventor: Olarig | Patent Number: 6057863

Media composer including pointer-based display of sequentially stored samples
Inventor: Peters, et al. | Patent Number: 6018337

Method and apparatus for increasing video data bandwidth by comparing video data for redundancy
Inventor: Ogura, et al. | Patent Number: 6005591

Integrated video and memory controller with data processing and graphical processing capabilities
Inventor: Dye | Patent Number: 6002411

Graphics system including a virtual frame buffer which stores video/pixel data in a plurality of memory areas
Inventor: Dye | Patent Number: 5995120

Method and apparatus for drawing graphics in a graphics controller of a multimedia data processing and display system
Inventor: Kwak | Patent Number: 5990909

Memory addressing apparatus for block scan and raster scan and a memory addressing method using the same
Inventor: Kim | Patent Number: 5982396

Replicating and refreshing graphic images on a remote workstation
Inventor: Anfossi, et al. | Patent Number: 5982392

Drawing time estimation in image processing including data compression/decompression
Inventor: Oki | Patent Number: 5982391

Video processing system including frame position indicators
Inventor: Beckwith | Patent Number: 5982364

Adaptive-selection method for memory access priority control in MPEG processor
Inventor: Wu, et al. | Patent Number: 5982360

Technique for communicating with electronic labels in an electronic price display system
Inventor: Briechle, et al. | Patent Number: 5977998

Storage device for storing hierarchically coded data and access method thereof
Inventor: Kondo | Patent Number: 5977996

Data resampler for data processing system for logically adjacent data samples
Inventor: Greenberg, et al. | Patent Number: 5977994

Apparatus, systems and methods for controlling data overlay in multimedia data processing and display systems using mask techniques
Inventor: Nally, et al. | Patent Number: 5977960

Geometry pipeline implemented on a SIMD machine
Inventor: Narayanaswami | Patent Number: 5973705

Method and system for displaying static and moving images on a display device
Inventor: Kaneko | Patent Number: 5969727

Caching and coherency control of multiple geometry accelerators in a computer graphics system
Inventor: Rentschler, et al. | Patent Number: 5969726

Optimized FIFO memory
Inventor: Harkin | Patent Number: 5966142

Method and apparatus for executing a raster operation in a graphics controller circuit
Inventor: Mills, et al. | Patent Number: 5959637

Computer system with graphical user interface including windows having an identifier within a control region on the display
Inventor: Conrad, et al. | Patent Number: 5956030

Multimedia terminal with an encoder for converting analog video data to compressed digitized video data
Inventor: Ristau | Patent Number: 5949441

Computing apparatus and operating method using software queues to improve graphics performance
Inventor: Ben-Yoseph, et al. | Patent Number: 5949439

Accelerated graphics port multiple entry gart cache allocation system and method
Inventor: Horan, et al. | Patent Number: 5949436

Programmable retargeter method and apparatus
Inventor: Thomas, et al. | Patent Number: 5943066

Method and apparatus for internally caching the minimum and maximum XY pixel address values in a graphics subsystem
Inventor: Wilde | Patent Number: 5940090

Accelerated graphics port memory mapped status and control registers
Inventor: Horan, et al. | Patent Number: 5936640

Memory system for processing digital video signal
Inventor: Choi | Patent Number: 5933159

Image display device for displaying images responsive to number of times of selection of image data by user
Inventor: Naruki, et al. | Patent Number: 5933152

Method and apparatus for prefetching a next instruction using display list processing in a graphics processor
Inventor: Larson | Patent Number: 5917505

MPEG decoder frame memory interface which is reconfigurable for different frame store architectures
Inventor: Malladi, et al. | Patent Number: 5912676

System and method for composing a display frame of multiple layered graphic sprites
Inventor: Blossom, et al. | Patent Number: 5892521

Computing apparatus and operating method using string caching to improve graphics performance
Inventor: Hsieh, et al. | Patent Number: 5883640

Memory control device for video editor
Inventor: Tomizawa, et al. | Patent Number: 5877781

Method and apparatus for block data transfer to reduce on-chip storage for interpolative video resizing
Inventor: Potu | Patent Number: 5859651

System and method for parsing multiple sets of data
Inventor: Pakenham, et al. | Patent Number: 5856832

Pixel reordering for improved texture mapping
Inventor: Cox, et al. | Patent Number: 5852451

Error-tolerant video display subsystem
Inventor: Dierke | Patent Number: 5850572

Method and apparatus for time-sharing CPU system bus in image generation system
Inventor: Furuhashi, et al. | Patent Number: 5850540

Video compression interface
Inventor: Reid | Patent Number: 5844575

Image displaying apparatus
Inventor: Sonoda | Patent Number: 5844549

Controller for providing access to a video frame buffer in split-bus transaction environment
Inventor: Childers, et al. | Patent Number: 5838955

Memory and graphics controller which performs pointer-based display list video refresh operations
Inventor: Dye | Patent Number: 5838334

Method and system for presenting a plurality of animated display objects to a user for selection on a graphical user interface in a data processing system
Inventor: Arruza | Patent Number: 5838316

Computer-human interface system which manipulates parts between a desktop and a document
Inventor: Stern, et al. | Patent Number: 5835919

Image information processing apparatus having means for uniting virtual space and real space
Inventor: Otsuka | Patent Number: 5835101

Graphics display system and method for providing internally timed time-varying properties of display attributes
Inventor: West, et al. | Patent Number: 5831638

Graphics controller including a sub-memory
Inventor: Shirakawa | Patent Number: 5825371

Computer graphics system utilizing parallel processing for enhanced performance
Inventor: Rentschler, et al. | Patent Number: 5821950

Decompression processor for video applications
Inventor: Purcell, et al. | Patent Number: 5815646

Tiled memory addressing with programmable tile dimensions
Inventor: May | Patent Number: 5815168

Image rescaling in a parallel processor
Inventor: Howell | Patent Number: 5815164

Video picture display device and method for controlling video picture display
Inventor: Jenney, et al. | Patent Number: 5815143

Method and system for building bit plane images in bit-mapped displays
Inventor: Helfferich | Patent Number: 5812112

Data transfer from a graphics subsystem to system memory
Inventor: Norrod, et al. | Patent Number: 5801720

Microprocessor with graphics capability for masking, aligning and expanding pixel bands
Inventor: Jabbi, et al. | Patent Number: 5801719

Data browsing apparatus and method therefor including automatic page-turning
Inventor: Endo, et al. | Patent Number: 5801713

System and method for an iconic drag and drop interface for electronic file transfer
Inventor: Ferguson | Patent Number: 5801700

Color format conversion in a parallel processor
Inventor: Zhou, et al. | Patent Number: 5798753

System architecture for processing and transporting page-map or bit-map data to a raster print engine
Inventor: Gauthier, et al. | Patent Number: 5796930

Image data storing method and processing apparatus thereof
Inventor: Kim | Patent Number: 5796412

Apparatus and method for displaying both an image and control information related to the image
Inventor: Taguchi | Patent Number: 5793367

Method and apparatus for parallel rasterization
Inventor: Kwok | Patent Number: 5786826

Image processing apparatus having image filing function
Inventor: Jinnai | Patent Number: 5784173

Method and apparatus for producing a polygonal image representation through operation of plotting commands on image data
Inventor: Furuhashi, et al. | Patent Number: 5784070

Color control for on-screen display in digital video
Inventor: Ngai | Patent Number: 5784055

Method for providing improved graphics performance through atypical pixel storage in video memory
Inventor: McCormack, et al. | Patent Number: 5781201

Tile memory mapping for increased throughput in a dual bank access DRAM
Inventor: Lu, et al. | Patent Number: 5781200

Graphic display device having function of displaying transfer area
Inventor: Saito | Patent Number: 5774134

Computer system with improved pixel processing capabilities
Inventor: Neave, et al. | Patent Number: 5774133

Video capture computer system using local memory for texture mapping
Inventor: Uchiyama | Patent Number: 5774132

Sound generation and display control apparatus for personal digital assistant
Inventor: Kim | Patent Number: 5774131

Image processing method and apparatus
Inventor: Takizawa, et al. | Patent Number: 5758043

Multiple nonlinear undo buttons
Inventor: Krause, et al. | Patent Number: 5757372

Method and apparatus for improved feedback during manipulation of data on a computer controlled display system
Inventor: Johnston, Jr., et al. | Patent Number: 5754178

Dual-mode graphics controller with preemptive video access
Inventor: Herbert | Patent Number: 5752010

Computer system architecture that incorporates display memory into system memory
Inventor: Tang, et al. | Patent Number: 5748203

Image data processor for processing pixel data in block buffer
Inventor: Nakatsuka, et al. | Patent Number: 5748202

Method for merging variable image data into a template image
Inventor: Gauthier, et al. | Patent Number: 5740338

Electronic libretto display apparatus and method
Inventor: Markle, et al. | Patent Number: 5739869

Method and system for the acceleration of graphics images in a multiprocessor or preemptive processing computer system
Inventor: Derby, et al. | Patent Number: 5727190

Pixel data transfer system
Inventor: Nishide | Patent Number: 5721885

Method and apparatus for building efficient and flexible geometry management widget classes
Inventor: Joseph | Patent Number: 5721848

Apparatus and methods for automatically controlling block writes
Inventor: Ehlers, et al. | Patent Number: 5717904

Apparatus and method for integrating texture memory and interpolation logic in a computer system
Inventor: Hannah, et al. | Patent Number: 5706481

Method of write to graphic memory where memory cells designated by plurality of addresses selected simultaneously for one row address are written
Inventor: Ohno | Patent Number: 5704059

Programmable memory controller and data terminal equipment
Inventor: Dwin, et al. | Patent Number: 5694585

Computer system with graphical user interface including automated enclosures
Inventor: Conrad, et al. | Patent Number: 5680562

Printing color display device for a printer
Inventor: Ishihara | Patent Number: 5673372

System for performing rotation of pixel matrices
Inventor: Schieve | Patent Number: 5668980

Method and apparatus for performing bit block transfers in a computer system
Inventor: Marisetty | Patent Number: 5666521

Graphics accelerator with dual memory controllers
Inventor: Dye | Patent Number: 5664162

Context sensitive menu system/menu behavior
Inventor: Malamud, et al. | Patent Number: 5664133

Method and system for displaying context sensitive child windows independently of their parent window
Inventor: Bibayan | Patent Number: 5659694

Memory structure for configuring a terminal device
Inventor: Glasser, et al. | Patent Number: 5651109

Bit-mapped on-screen-display device for a television receiver
Inventor: Knox, et al. | Patent Number: 5640502

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