| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7516259 |
Combined engine for video and graphics processing |
April 7, 2009 |
| The system includes an arbiter, a combined engine, a frame buffer, and a display processing unit. The arbiter provides three input channels: a first channel for graphics, a second channel for video and a third channel for processor. The arbiter performs prioritization and arbitration |
| 7432988 |
Address generation for video processing |
October 7, 2008 |
| A video processing system includes input and output address generators. The address generators are capable of generating linear addresses associated with data to be read from and written to a device. The linear address is converted to a random address so that data associated with a m |
| 7430621 |
Multiple channel data bus control for video processing |
September 30, 2008 |
| A method, apparatus, computer medium, and other embodiments for selectably enabling a plurality of data transfer modes along one or more channels are described. In one embodiment, data transfer between a first device and a second device is controlled based on selecting a combination of |
| 7430238 |
Shared pipeline architecture for motion vector prediction and residual decoding |
September 30, 2008 |
| A shared pipeline architecture is provided for H.264 motion vector prediction and residual decoding, and intra prediction for CABAC and CALVC entropy in Main Profile and High Profile for standard and high definition applications. All motion vector predictions and residual decoding of |
| 7411628 |
Method and system for scaling, filtering, scan conversion, panoramic scaling, YC adjustment, and |
August 12, 2008 |
| Techniques for performing panoramic scaling are disclosed that reduce visible distortion in a panoramic image. Further, techniques for performing combined YC adjustment and color conversion are disclosed that reduce the size and power requirements of video manipulation hardware by re |
| 7408590 |
Combined scaling, filtering, and scan conversion |
August 5, 2008 |
| Techniques for performing combined scaling, filtering, and/or scan conversion are disclosed that reduce that amount of line buffer space required in the overall design of a video processing system. In particular, coefficients from all or a sub-set of the scaling, filtering (smoothing |
| 7380036 |
Combined engine for video and graphics processing |
May 27, 2008 |
| The system includes an arbiter, a combined engine, a frame buffer, and a display processing unit. The arbiter provides three input channels: a first channel for graphics, a second channel for video and a third channel for processor. The arbiter performs prioritization and arbitration |
| 7376288 |
Edge adaptive demosaic system and method |
May 20, 2008 |
| A demosaic system and method that supports multiple CFA pattern inputs is disclosed. The demosaic system is capable of handling both RGB Bayer input and CMYG input and perform demosaic operations on both inputs to recover full-color images from the raw input images. The system uses a |
| 7366238 |
Noise filter for video processing |
April 29, 2008 |
| A noise filter for a video processing system includes a block selector, a cost calculator, a cost table, a cost comparator, and a coefficient filter. The block selector is coupled to receive data from the quantization unit and selects blocks for additional filtering. The selected blo |
| 7359006 |
Audio module supporting audio signature |
April 15, 2008 |
| A system and method embed an audio signature in a video frame. An audio signature is generated from one bit a buffer input data. Two registers store an audio signature and reference count. According to an embodiment, the audio signature is generated left/right (L/R) interleaved with the |
| 7333678 |
Edge adaptive demosaic system and method |
February 19, 2008 |
| A demosaic system and method that supports multiple CFA pattern inputs is disclosed. The demosaic system is capable of handling both RGB Bayer input and CMYG input and perform demosaic operations on both inputs to recover full-color images from the raw input images. The system uses a |
| 7310785 |
Video processing architecture definition by function graph methodology |
December 18, 2007 |
| A design technique is disclosed that allows video processing hardware designers to effectively employ the requirements of a video processing standard (e.g., H.264 specification or other such standard) during the hardware architecture design phase of the design process. The technique |
| 7259796 |
System and method for rapidly scaling and filtering video data |
August 21, 2007 |
| This invention relates generally to hardware for scaling and filtering video data and more specifically to algorithms and techniques for accelerating scaling and filtering operations on digital video data. The hardware is designed so that scaling and filtering operations are combined |
| 7219173 |
System for video processing control and scheduling wherein commands are unaffected by signal int |
May 15, 2007 |
| A method, apparatus, computer medium, and other embodiments for synchronizing control of one or more devices at predetermined times are described. A host scheduler loads a to-do list of predetermined events and corresponding time-tags into memory and broadcasts scheduled events to th |
| 7184101 |
Address generation for video processing |
February 27, 2007 |
| A video processing system includes input and output address generators. The address generators are capable of generating linear addresses associated with data to be read from and written to a device. The linear address is converted to a random address so that data associated with a m |
| 7142251 |
Video input processor in multi-format video compression system |
November 28, 2006 |
| A video input processor is provided to process different input video format, including RGB, RGB Bayer, YUV 4:2:2 interlaced and progressive video data. The video input processor also uses an advanced algorithm to efficiently convert video data in RGB color space to YUV color space. The |
| 7136414 |
System and method for efficiently performing an inverse telecine procedure |
November 14, 2006 |
| A system and method for efficiently performing an inverse telecine procedure includes an inverse telecine module that converts input frames of video information into corresponding output frames by applying an inverse telecine policy to the input frames. A motion statistics generator |
