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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2014
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Anup K. Sharma, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Scott P. Krueger, San Francisco, CA (US);
James M. Hollabaugh, San Jose, CA (US);
Roberto G. Yepez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brijesh Tripathi, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey J. Terlizzi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Terry L. Tikalsky, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a host computing device includes an internal display and also includes a connector to connect to an external display. A cable is provided to connect to the connector and to connect to the external display. The cable includes video processing capabilities. For example, the cable may include a memory configured to store a frame buffer. The frame buffer may store a frame of video data for further processing by the video processing device in the cable. The video processing device may manipulate the frame in a variety of ways, e.g. scaling, rotating, gamma correction, dither correction, etc.