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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Elizabeth J. Schlapp, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA, Inc., Cypress, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ; G06T 1/60 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/516 ; G06T 1/60 ;
Abstract
A frame buffer memory is disclosed which provides accelerated rendering of two-dimensional and three-dimensional images in a computer graphics system. One embodiment of the disclosed memory comprises a memory array, a pixel buffer, a plurality of pixel arithmetic-logic units, an input data formatter, an output data formatter, a read data formatter, a write data formatter and an address and control input bus.