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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:
May. 30, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 28, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
David Walter Flynn, Cambridge, GB;
Ashley Miles Stevens, Cambridge, GB;
Lance Gregory Howarth, Cherry Hinton, GB;
Assignee:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G / ; G09G / ; G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345150 ; 345186 ; 345199 ;
Abstract
A display palette system comprising a digital palette 16 supplied with frames of data 26. Each frame of data 26 includes a complete set of palette mapping data and control data 28 with which the digital palette 16 is programmed under control of a palette control circuit 24. The rows of logical pixel data that follow in the frame each terminate with row palette data RP that can be directed to reprogram the digital palette 16 part of the way through the display of a single frame.