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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:
Oct. 31, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Daniel F Cutter, Boxboro, MA (US);
Assignee:
Media 100 Inc., Marlborough, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710100 ; 710101 ;
Abstract
A video peripheral board for providing video I/O capabilities to a general purpose host computer. The video peripheral board comprises a video I/O port configured to connect a video device, a bus interface circuit, and control logic. The bus interface circuit is configured to connect the video peripheral board into a system bus of the host computer, and is capable of becoming bus master of the system bus. The control logic is configured to control the bus interface circuit to effect transfer of video data between the video I/O port and storage of the host computer, the video data passing through the video I/O port in real time.