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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. 12, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Adam J Kunzman, Carrollton, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348771 ; 348792 ; 345 84 ;
Abstract
A formatter and frame buffer unit (20) for a display system (10) that uses a spatial light modulator (16) to display data formatted in bit-planes. Formatters (21) convert multi-bit pixel data to bit-plane data. The frame buffer memory (25) is comprised of conventional DRAM devices. To allow the use of DRAMs, formatters (21) operate on a number of consecutive pixels, the number of pixels being sufficient for an extended page mode form of addressing the DRAMs.