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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:
Dec. 21, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gary S. Wolverton, Dallas, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/39 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/39 ;
Abstract
A controller ( ) for a display system ( ) that uses a spatial light modulator ( ) to display data formatted in bit-planes. The controller ( ) receives at least some of the bit-plane data from a frame memory. It has local memory that buffers data transfer and stores data for bit-planes having multiple accesses, thereby increasing the bandwidth of data transfers from the frame memory ( ) to the SLM ( ).