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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2013
Michael Priel, Netanya, IL;
Ran Ferderber, Mazor, IL;
Michael Zarubinsky, Rishon Lezion, IL;
NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
There is provided a multimedia computing apparatus for processing and displaying video data with overlay graphic data, said multimedia computing apparatus comprising a compression unit arranged to compress graphic overlay data prior to storage of said compressed overlay graphic data in a compressed display buffer, and a control unit arranged to determine when to compress the overlay graphic data dependent upon a refresh parameter of the overlay graphic data. There is also provided a method of adaptively compressing graphics data in a multimedia computing system comprising dynamically controlling compression of graphic overlay data in a display buffer dependent upon a refresh parameter of the graphic overlay data.