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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:
Dec. 15, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Glenn C Poole, Fremont, CA (US);
Thomas J Repa, San Carlos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Rendition, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345153 ; 345149 ;
Abstract
A circuit in a graphics processing subsystem receives pixel color values as input and concurrently provides both dithering and scale correction of the color values. Pixel color values are initially generated by the subsystem as 8-bit binary quantities, each having a maximum possible value of 255. However, the graphics processing subsystem utilizes a scale of 0 to 256 for processing color values. The correction function prevents a loss of pixel intensity that would otherwise result from representing 8-bit color values on a 0 to 256 scale.