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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 29, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
Sun Microsystems, Inc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395164 ; 395162 ; 36523003 ; 36523008 ; 36518912 ;
Abstract
A frame buffer having a memory array, circuitry for accessing the array, a plurality of color value registers for storing a plurality of color values which may be written to the array, and circuitry for writing to the memory cells a data representing a single pixel, for writing simultaneously to the memory cells data representing a number of pixels equal to the number of conductors on the data bus, or for writing simultaneously to the memory cells data representing an entire row of pixels of the array.