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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:
Sep. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ;
Abstract
A method and system for efficient buffer rendering. An object mask, typically a character font mask, is aligned with a memory tiling arrangement ( ). A tile map is generated ( ) to indicate active tiles. An active tile is selected ( ) and the portion of the buffer corresponding to the active tile is transferred ( ) from a first memory, typically an off-chip memory, to a second memory, typically an on-chip memory to allow a processor to render the band buffer tile. The portion of the band buffer is rendered ( ) and returned ( ) to the first memory. The next active tile is selected and the process continues until all active tiles have been rendered ( ).