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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:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
David N. Pether, Wokingham, GB;
Martin J. Ratcliffe, Bracknell, GB;
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ; G09G 5/397 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ; G09G 5/397 ;
Abstract
An apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be conf igured to generate an address signal in response to (i) a first ramp signal, (ii) a second ramp signal, and (iii) a format signal. The second circuit may be configured to generate the first and second ramp signals in response to a one or more control signals. The address signal may support a raster format when the format signal is in a first state and may support a macroblock format when the format signal is in a second state.