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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1997
Charles F. Morris, San Jose, CA (US);
Gregory T. Lydon, San Jose, CA (US);
Mark Keith Reha, San Jose, CA (US);
Philips Electronics North America Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A software architecture for a personal computer enables control of an attached television set as a graphic output device, where the software architecture includes a dynamically linked library storing executable library routines that can be called by a computer system routine across an application programming interface, and a hardware extraction layer having hardware-specific routines that are called by a selected library routine to perform a specific hardware operation. The hardware-specific routines control operation of a graphics core configured to control the television set, for example by detecting whether the television set is attached to thecomputer system. Additional operations supported by the dynamically linked library include automatically adjusting the size and resolution of Windows (or portions thereof) output to the television set.