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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2004
Gerard Yeh, Redwood City, CA (US);
David Auld, San Jose, CA (US);
Jackson F. Lee, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joseph Cesana, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hsiang O-yang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Xianliang Zha, Folsom, CA (US);
Zeljko Markovic, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gerard Yeh, Redwood City, CA (US);
David Auld, San Jose, CA (US);
Jackson F. Lee, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joseph Cesana, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hsiang O-Yang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Xianliang Zha, Folsom, CA (US);
Zeljko Markovic, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zoran Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for an integrated high definition television controller are described. The integrated high definition digital television controller includes two or more the following functions in a single chip: MPEG2 Transport, Audio and Video Decoders, Video input capture and converter, flexible video scan rate converter, de-interlace processor, display controller and video D/A converters, graphics controller, a unified local bus, N-plane alpha blending, a warping engine, audio digital signal processor, disk drive interface, peripheral bus interfaces, such as PCI bus and local bus interfaces, various I/O peripherals, a bus bridge with a partitioned chip, and a CPU with caches. The integrated controller, in one embodiment, is designed to handle multiple television standards (for example ATSC, ARIB, DVB, AES, SMPTE, ITU) and designed to be deployed in various countries in the world.