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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:
Aug. 12, 1997
Filed:
May. 16, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Recker, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Walter Donovan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
Rendition, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395503 ; 395508 ; 395522 ; 345201 ;
Abstract
A system and method that avoids performance bottlenecks at the host processor while avoiding tearing of the displayed image. In one embodiment, the system is composed of the host processor, a first in first out (FIFO) buffer, a co-processor, multiple frame buffers, a display controller and a display. The host and the co-processor are configured to enable the host to selectively batch graphic commands to the co-processor. The small set of commands provides the flexibility to selectively batch commands and selectively synchronize the host processor to the co-processor.