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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1996
Musa Jahanghir, Hayward, CA (US);
Steve Blonstein, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ikram Jahangiri, Hayward, CA (US);
Steve Jeck, San Francisco, CA (US);
Samsung Information Systems America, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A graphics data decompression arrangement in a TV set top box that includes a system ROM for storing graphics data broken down into tiles, each of which is identified by a unique index number. The index numbers that identify the tiles of graphics data required to be included in a current picture on a TV set screen are written into a DRAM. An MPEG decoder reads the index numbers to convert them into a graphics address signal supplied via a ROM address bus to the system ROM to indicate the addresses of the required tiles of graphics data. In response, the required tiles are fed to the MPEG decoder for decompression in accordance with an MPEG decompression algorithm. A time-division multiplexing scheme allows the ROM address bus to be used for transmitting to the system ROM an address signal from a CPU that indicates where information required for CPU operations is located in the system ROM. In response to the CPU address signal, the required information is fed to the CPU.