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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2012
Qing Yu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jieyang Xu, Shanghai, CN;
Ding LU, San Jose, CA (US);
Parade Technologies, Ltd., George Town, Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed is to prevent the screen tearing in a video display system with self-refresh features while limiting space used for memory size in the self-refreshing sink device. A flexible method is utilized to manage a frame buffer and control self-refresh display timing to prevent screen tearing. The sink device has capabilities including one or more of self-refreshing and applying single frame updates as well as burst single frame updates while self-refresh is active. The memory utilized by the frame buffer during self-refresh is limited to less than that needed to store two full frames of video.