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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014

Filed:

Aug. 11, 2011
Applicants:

Brijesh Tripathi, San Jose, CA (US);

Nitin Bhargava, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Brijesh Tripathi, San Jose, CA (US);

Nitin Bhargava, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G09G 5/02 (2006.01); G09G 1/28 (2006.01); G06F 13/14 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G09G 5/10 (2006.01); H04N 9/44 (2006.01); H04N 11/00 (2006.01); H03M 1/12 (2006.01); H04N 9/12 (2006.01); G06F 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G09G 5/395 (2006.01); G06F 13/24 (2006.01); G06F 15/76 (2006.01); G06F 9/40 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2006.01); G09G 5/18 (2006.01); G09G 3/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/395 (2013.01); G09G 5/18 (2013.01); G09G 3/2048 (2013.01); G09G 2360/125 (2013.01); G09G 2370/10 (2013.01); G09G 2340/125 (2013.01);
Abstract

A display controller may include an RGB Interface module and a display port module, which may both use a target-master interface, in which the data receiving module pops pixels from the data sourcing module, and generates the HSync, VSync, and VBI timing signals. A dither module may be instantiated between the RGB interface module and display port module to perform dithering. The dither module may use a source-master interface, in which data signals and data valid signals are issued by the data sourcing module. In order to avoid having to use a large storage capacity FIFO with the dither module, a control unit may issue interface signals to the RGB Interface module and display port module, and clock-gate the dither module, to allow the data signals and data valid signals to properly interface with the RBG interface module and display port module, and provide data flow from the RGB interface module to the dither module to the display port module.


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