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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:
Sep. 22, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
ATI Technologies Inc., Unionville, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348446 ; 348910 ;
Abstract
A method of scan conversion comprising (a) receiving source data representing a predetermined signal component of respective pixels of successive lines of a non-interlaced display, (b) adding the source data related to vertically adjacent pixels in a set of source lines of the non-interlaced display to form one of an odd and even line of an interlaced display, (c) repeating step (b) for another immediately following set of source lines to form another one of the odd or even line of the interlaced display, and (d) repeating steps (a), (b) and (c) successively to an end of an odd or even field of the interlaced display.