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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
May. 05, 2000
Timothy A. Elliott, Austin, TX (US);
G. Glenn Henry, Austin, TX (US);
IPFirst, LLC, Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A mechanism for, and method of, clipping a red-green-blue (RGB) integer value to an n-bit maximum value and a processor incorporating the mechanism or the method. In one embodiment, the mechanism includes: (1) a multiplexer having a first input that accepts n low-order bits of the RGB integer value and a select input that accepts at least one high-order bit of the RGB integer value and (2) an n-bit maximum value generator, coupled to a second input of the multiplexer, that provides the n-bit maximum value to the second input, an output of the multiplexer providing the n low-order bits when the at least one high order bit has a zero value and providing the n-bit maximum value when the at least one high order bit has a nonzero value.