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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bryan G Prouty, Wellington, CO (US);
Ronald D Larson, Ft. Collins, CO (US);
Charles R Dowdell, Nashua, NH (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345441 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided for interleaving frame buffer controllers in two dimensions. Each frame buffer controller includes an edge stepper, a subspan stepper and a span stepper. The subspan stepper separates each span line into a plurality of parts. Each frame buffer controller provides pixel data for certain parts of the span line. The parts are defined by a start value, a stop value and a starting color value.