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Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 11, 2020
Applicant:

Dell Products L. P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

Randall E. Juenger, Georgetown, TX (US);

Arnold Thomas Schnell, Hutto, TX (US);

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/38 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/385 (2013.01); G06F 13/4291 (2013.01); G09G 5/006 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0038 (2013.01); G06F 2213/0042 (2013.01);
Abstract

In some examples, a logic device may be connected to: (i) a ThunderBolt (TBT) output of a CPU that lacks a DisplayPort (DP) input and (ii) a DP output of a GPU. The logic device may determine a presence of a video signal, e.g., either: (1) TBT video from the CPU or (2) DP video from the GPU. The logic device may re-time the video signal to create re-timed video and output the re-timed video using a USB-C port. If the logic device determines that the video signal is DP, then the logic device may select a DisplayPort Alternate Mode of the USB-C port and output the re-timed video signal using four differential pairs of the USB-C port. If the logic device determines that the video signal is TBT, then the logic device may output the re-timed video signal using two differential pairs of the USB-C port.


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