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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:
Jun. 30, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 07, 2007
Applicants:

Edward G. Callway, Toronto, CA;

David Glen, Toronto, CA;

Andrew Gruber, Arlington, MA (US);

Gaurav Arora, Northborough, MA (US);

Philip Swan, Richmond Hill, CA;

Inventors:

Edward G. Callway, Toronto, CA;

David Glen, Toronto, CA;

Andrew Gruber, Arlington, MA (US);

Gaurav Arora, Northborough, MA (US);

Philip Swan, Richmond Hill, CA;

Assignees:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

ATI Technologies ULC, Markham, Ontario, CA;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/66 (2006.01); H04N 5/44 (2011.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 21/41 (2011.01); H04N 21/4363 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/44 (2013.01); G09G 5/005 (2013.01); G09G 5/006 (2013.01); G09G 2320/08 (2013.01); G09G 2370/042 (2013.01); H04N 21/4122 (2013.01); H04N 21/4363 (2013.01);
Abstract

In general, in an aspect, the invention provides a multimedia entertainment system including a communication link, a video source coupled to the communication link and configured to produce a video signal and provide the video signal to the communication link, a video display coupled to the communication link and configured to receive the video signal from the video source via the communication link, and to provide dynamic display characteristic information indicative of a display capability of the video display to the video source via the communication link, wherein the video source is configured to receive the dynamic display characteristic information and to produce the video signal as a function of the dynamic display characteristic information, and wherein the video display is configured to display a video image in accordance with the video signal provided by the video source.


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