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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
May. 05, 2010
Frido Garritsen, Hayward, CA (US);
Frido Garritsen, Hayward, CA (US);
Silicon Motion, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for hardware rotation is described. In one embodiment, the invention is an apparatus. The apparatus includes a direct access address translation component. The apparatus also includes a frame buffer coupled to the direct access address translation component. The apparatus further includes a 2D coordinate translation component. The apparatus also includes a 2D engine coupled to the 2D coordinate translation component and to the frame buffer. The apparatus further includes a 3D engine. The apparatus also include a 3D coordinate translation component coupled to the 3D engine and the frame buffer. As will be appreciated, further embodiments of the invention are within the spirit and scope of the claimed invention, and the specific details of a specific embodiment as described need not be present in all embodiments of the invention.