Ati International Srl

Ati Technologies Inc.

Lili Kang

Jacky Yan

Edward George Callway

Philip L Swan

Keith Lee

A video overlay switching apparatus and method utilizes a common video scaler that receives input video data. A programmable switching mechanism, such as a register-controlled multiplexer, receives video information from the video scaler, either scaled video or unscaled video, and selectively routes the video data to any one of a plurality of video overlay generators to facilitate selective display of overlay data on a specified display device. The programmable switching mechanism also facilitates programming of frame buffer space for each display engine, based on which video overlay generator has been selected to receive input video.

Switchable video overlay apparatus and method

In accordance with a first mode of operation of the present invention, a portrait image is received from a system device. The portrait image is translated and stored within the graphics engine memory such that it can be displayed on a landscape monitor that has been rotated 90 degrees. Likewise, when portrait data stored within the memory is sent to the system it is translated such that it is sent back in the same format received by the system. In a second mode of operation in accordance with the present invention, a landscape image received by the graphics adapter is stored in the graphics adapter memory without any translation.

Method and apparatus for supporting multiple monitor orientations

A method of scan conversion comprising (a) receiving source data representing a predetermined signal component of respective pixels of successive lines of a non-interlaced display, (b) adding the source data related to vertically adjacent pixels in a set of source lines of the non-interlaced display to form one of an odd and even line of an interlaced display, (c) repeating step (b) for another immediately following set of source lines to form another one of the odd or even line of the interlaced display, and (d) repeating steps (a), (b) and (c) successively to an end of an odd or even field of the interlaced display.

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