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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2010
Yung-yen Chang, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Yuan-heng Wu, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Yung-Yen Chang, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Yuan-Heng Wu, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Wistron Corp., New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
An electrical device supporting switchable graphics function, electrically connected with a display unit, includes a first graphic chip, a second graphic chip, a peripheral, an Embedded Controller (EC) and a processing unit. Information of a present graphic chip is stored in an EC RAM of the EC, wherein the present graphic chip is one of the first graphic chip and the second graphic chip. A control unit of the EC obtains the information of the present graphic chip from the EC RAM and controls operation status of the peripheral according to the obtained information of the present graphic chip. The processing unit obtains the information of the present graphic chip from the EC RAM. The processing unit drives the present graphic chip to process an image signal and transmit the processed image signal to the display unit for display according to the obtained information of the present graphic chip.