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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Elizabeth J. Schlapp, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Electric & Electronics USA, Inc., Cypress, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/39 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/39 ;
Abstract
Methods for operating a graphics system which employs one or more frame buffer memory devices are disclosed which methods provide for accelerated rendering of two-dimensional and three-dimensional images in a computer graphics system One disclosed operation is a method for compressing data to be transmitted from a controller to the memory device and then decompressing the data within the memory device once it has been transmitted and received.