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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 1998
Filed:
May. 29, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joel Buck-Gengler, Longmont, CO (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345474 ;
Abstract
A collision detection method and apparatus that detects the likelihood of a collision with an address of data previously retrieved from a two dimensional memory array, such as a memory array suitable for use as the frame buffer memory within a graphics display sub-system of a computer system. The collision detection system can also view the memory as having only one dimension to detect the likelihood of a collision with higher or lower accesses relative to a current access.