Equator Technologies, Inc.

Hitachi, Ltd.

Other

Prysm, Inc.

Yatin Mundkur

Woobin Lee

Gregorio Gervasio

John Setel O'Donnell

Benjamin Franklin Cutler

Toru Nojiri

Richard Deeley

Christopher H Basoglu

David Baker

Radhika Thekkath

Takeshi Miyazaki

Keiji Kojima

Kiyokazu Nishioka

Eric Carl Rehm

Atsuo Kawaguchi

Vinay Naik

Sarang Padalkar

Ashok Raman

Roger A Hajjar

Koji Hosogi

Amit Jain

David R Poole

John Poole, Legal Representative

Display devices and systems including television sets, and systems, apparatus and methods for delivering information and providing services through display devices and systems. The display used in the described systems and methods is capable of receiving one or more TV programming channels and an independent designated application channel and having at least a first display window and a second display window separated from each other without spatial overlap on the screen. The information sent over the designated application channel to the display is displayed on the first display window while simultaneously displaying one of the TV programming channels on the second display window. A viewer control mechanism is provided in the display to allow the viewer to switch the information received from the designated application channel from the first display window to the second display window and switch back at the viewer's choice.

Delivering and displaying advertisement or other application data to display systems

In an information processing system which has plurality of modules including a processor, a main memory and a plurality of I/O devices, a data transfer switch for performing data transfer operations between the processor, main memory and I/O devices comprises a request bus which has a request bus arbiter for receiving read and write requests from each one of the plurality of modules. A processor memory bus is configured to receive address and data information from a predetermined number of modules, including the processor. The processor memory bus has a data bus arbiter for receiving data read and write requests from each one of the predetermined number of modules which are coupled to the processor memory bus. An internal memory bus is configured to receive address and data information from a predetermined number of modules, including the memory and the I/O devices. The internal memory bus has a data bus arbiter for receiving data read and write requests from each one of the predetermined number of modules coupled to the internal memory bus. A transceiver system is coupled to the processor memory bus and the internal memory bus for transferring data between the processor memory bus and the internal memory bus.

Data streamer

An integrated multimedia system having a multimedia processor is disposed in an integrated circuit having a first host processor system coupled to the multimedia processor and a second local processor disposed within the multimedia processor for controlling the operation of the multimedia processor. A data transfer switch is coupled to the second processor for transferring data to various modules of the processor, at least one of which is a data cache. The data transfer switch transfers data in either direction between the cache and a module within the processor. A data streamer schedules simultaneous data transfers among the various-modules disposed within the multimedia processor in accordance with corresponding channel allocations. An interface unit is coupled to the data streamer and has a plurality of input/output (I/O) device driver units. A plurality of external I/O devices are coupled to the plurality of I/O device driver units via a multiplexer.

Integrated multimedia system

An integrated multimedia system has a multimedia processor disposed in an integrated circuit. A processor is disposed within the multimedia processor which controls the operation of the multimedia processor. A data transfer switch is disposed within the multimedia processor and coupled to the processor which transfers data to various modules of the multimedia processor. A fixed function unit is disposed within the multimedia processor, coupled to the processor and the data transfer switch. A data streamer is coupled to the data transfer switch, and configured to schedule simultaneous data transfers among a plurality of modules disposed within the multimedia processor in accordance with the corresponding channel allocations. As interface unit is coupled to the data streamer and has a plurality of I/O device driver units. A multiplexer coupled to the interface unit provides access between a selected number of I/O device driver units and external I/O devices via output pins.

A variable-length encode/decode processor includes a central processing unit and an instruction buffer and a getbits processing engine coupled to the central processing unit. Such a processor can be used to encode data as variable-length symbols or to decode variable-length symbols such as those found in an MPEG bitstream.

Processing circuit and method for variable-length coding and decoding

Data transfer engine of a processor having a plurality of modules

An information processing system has a plurality of modules, including a processor, a main memory and a plurality of I/O devices. A data cache comprises a cache data memory which is coupled to the processor which provides data to the processor in response to a load operation and for writing data from the processor in response to a store operation. A refill controller is coupled to the cache data memory for controlling the operation of the data cache in accordance with a specifiable policy. An external access controller is coupled to the cache data memory. The external access controller is coupled to an external memory bus, such that the contents of the cache data memory are accessible for read and write operations in response to read and write requests issued by the modules in the information processing system.

Data cache system

Integrated multimedia system with local processor, data transfer switch, processing modules, fixed functional unit, data streamer, interface unit and multiplexer, all integrated on multimedia processor

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Yatin Mundkur