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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:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Philip Swan, Richmond Hill, CA;
John Haberfellner, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
ATI International SRL, Christchurch, BB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus utilizes a display engine scaler to access source image that is located in memory, such as a frame buffer and also controls a second scaler, such as a front end scaler of a 2D/3D engine, which also accesses the frame buffer and is capable of scaling from a frame buffer memory and storing the scaled image back to the frame buffer.