Nvidia Corporation

Piers John Daniell

Jonathan B White

Michael B Diamond

Brian Dennis Falardeau

The present invention facilitates convenient and secure distribution of proprietary content. A present secure content enabled drive system and method permits flexible use of storage medium for both protected distribution of information and user definable storage use. In one embodiment, a computer readable storage medium includes an unprotected information portion, a protected information portion and a protection interface. The unprotected portion stores unprotected information. The protected content portion stores protected information. The protection interface protects information in the protected content portion from unauthorized access.

Secure content enabled hard drive system and method

Secure content enabled drive system and method

The present invention facilitates convenient and secure distribution of proprietary content. A present secure content enabled drive system and method permits flexible use of storage medium for both protected distribution of information and user definable storage use. In one embodiment a digital right management method includes creating a secure content enabled drive with protected storage locations and unprotected storage locations. Initial digital rights authorization is established to access secure content stored in said protected storage locations. The initial digital rights authorization to access secure content stored in said protected storage locations can be revised.

Secure content enabled drive digital rights management system and method

A video coding apparatus, a decoder and a method for deferring the decoding of blocks of pixel data not yet ready for decoding during which other blocks of pixel data can be decoded nearly immediately. By deferring decoding and allowing the decoder to continue to successive blocks, the decoder can reduce stalls in the decoding process, which in turn, can decrease idle time in the decoder as well as power consumption that otherwise occurs during such idle time. In one embodiment, an exemplary method decodes a bit stream representing video images. The method includes deblocking blocks of a first frame as first frame blocks, determining a block of a second frame depends on a reference block of the blocks, and deferring decoding of the block. In at least one embodiment, the method can include decoding other blocks of the second frame at least partially concurrent with deferring decoding of the block.

Avoiding stalls to accelerate decoding pixel data depending on in-loop operations

A remote control device and method are described for controlling an input parameter to an electronic device. In one embodiment, the remote control device includes a housing sized to be held in the hand of a user during operation of the remote control device and a gyroscopic sensor that is integrated with the housing and configured to produce a signal in response to an angular motion about a single reference axis. The input parameter that the user wants to control is responsive to the signal that the gyroscopic sensor produces when the gyroscopic sensor is activated.

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Piers John Daniell