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Video and graphics system with parallel processing of graphics windows
Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte Ltd
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Filing: 2003-04-07
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Granted: 2005-03-22
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Expires: 2023-04-07
Abstract
Abstract A display engine of a video and graphics system includes one or more processing elements and receives graphics from a memory. The graphics data define multiple graphics layers, and the processing elements process two or more graphics layers in parallel to generate blended graphics. Alpha values may be used while blending graphics. The processing elements may be integrated on an integrated circuit chip with an input for receiving the graphics data and other video and graphics components. The display engine may also include a graphics controller for receiving two or more graphics layers in parallel, for arranging the graphics layers in an order suitable for parallel processing, and for providing the arranged graphics layers to the processing elements. The blended graphics may be blended with HDTV video or SDTV video, which may be extracted from compressed data streams such as an MPEG Transport stream.
Inventors
- 👤 Alexander G. MacInnis
- 👤 Chengfuh Jeffrey Tang
- 👤 Xiaodong Xie
Bibliographic Details
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2026-10-24 21:21
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06T; G06T9/00; G06T9/007; G06F; G06F13/00; G06F15/00; G06F15/16; G06F15/163; G06F15/167; G09; G09G; G09G5/00; G09G5/001; G09G5/02; G09G5/06; G09G5/12; G09G5/14; G09G5/22; G09G5/24; G09G5/28; G09G5/34; G09G5/346; G09G5/36; H; H04; H04N; H04N19/00; H04N19/42; H04N19/423; H04N19/436; H04N19/44; H04N19/60; H04N19/61; H04N21/00; H04N21/40; H04N21/41; H04N21/422; H04N21/42204; H04N21/426; H04N21/42653; H04N21/43; H04N21/4302; H04N21/4305; H04N21/431; H04N21/4312; H04N21/4316; H04N21/434; H04N21/443; H04N21/4438; H04N21/47; H04N5/00; H04N5/14; H04N5/44; H04N5/445; H04N5/44504; H04N5/45; H04N7/00; H04N7/01; H04N7/0135; H04N9/00; H04N9/44; H04N9/45; H04N9/64; H04N9/641; H04N9/642; G09G2310/00; G09G2310/02; G09G2310/0224; G09G2320/00; G09G2320/02; G09G2320/0247; G09G2340/00; G09G2340/02; G09G2340/04; G09G2340/0407; G09G2340/10; G09G2340/12; G09G2340/125; G09G2360/00; G09G2360/02; G09G2360/12; G09G2360/121; G09G2360/125; G09G2360/128; G09G5/024; G09G5/026; H04N11/00; H04N11/06; H04N11/12; H04N11/14; H04N11/143; H04N11/20; H04N5/04; H04N5/12; H04N5/126; H04N5/46
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 24
Claim 1
Independent Claim
105 words
An integrated circuit chip comprising: an input for receiving graphics data from a memory, the graphics data comprising a plurality of graphics images, each graphics image comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel comprises a graphics component and an alpha value; an input for receiving a video; a display engine comprising a plurality of processing elements capable of blending the graphics images in parallel using the alpha values to generate blended graphics, and of combining the alpha values to generate a plurality of composite alpha values; and a video compositor capable of blending the blended graphics with the video using the composite alpha values.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
105 words
An integrated circuit chip comprising: an input for receiving graphics data from a memory, the graphics data comprising a plurality of graphics images, each graphics image comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel comprises a graphics component and an alpha value; an input for receiving a video; a display engine comprising a plurality of processing elements capable of blending the graphics images in parallel using the alpha values to generate blended graphics, and of combining the alpha values to generate a plurality of composite alpha values; and a video compositor capable of blending the blended graphics with the video using the composite alpha values.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
56 words
The integrated circuit chip of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of processing elements comprise at least one first processing element for blending the graphics images in parallel to generate a plurality of intermediate graphics images, and at least one second processing element for blending the plurality of intermediate graphics images to generate the blended graphics.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
43 words
The integrated circuit chip of claim 1 , further comprising: a plurality of processing pipelines, each pipeline being capable of processing one of the plurality of graphics images to place it in a common format for blending in the plurality of processing elements.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
75 words
A video and graphics system comprising: a display engine comprising: an input for receiving data representing graphics from a memory, wherein the data representing graphics defines a plurality of graphics windows; at least one first processing element for blending the plurality of graphics windows in parallel to generate a plurality of intermediate graphics images; and at least one second processing element for blending the plurality of intermediate graphics images to generate a blended graphics image.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
75 words
A video and graphics system comprising: a display engine comprising: an input for receiving data representing graphics from a memory, wherein the data representing graphics defines a plurality of graphics windows; at least one first processing element for blending the plurality of graphics windows in parallel to generate a plurality of intermediate graphics images; and at least one second processing element for blending the plurality of intermediate graphics images to generate a blended graphics image.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
42 words
The video and graphics system of claim 4 , further comprising: a plurality of processing pipelines, each pipeline being capable of processing one of the plurality of graphics windows to place it in a common format for blending in the processing elements.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
19 words
The video and graphics system of claim 4 , wherein the system is integrated on an integrated circuit chip.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
55 words
The video and graphics system of claim 5 , further comprising: a graphics controller f or receiving the plurality of graphics windows in parallel from the processing pipelines, for arranging the graphics windows in an order suitable for parallel processing, and for providing the arranged graphics windows to the at least one first processing element.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
41 words
The video and graphics system of claim 7 , wherein each processing pipeline comprises a graphics converter for converting the format of one of the plurality of graphics windows to the common format, and for providing it to the graphics controller.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
32 words
The video and graphics system of claim 4 , wherein a plurality of alpha values are used to blend the plurality of graphics windows to generate the plurality of intermediate graphics images.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
29 words
The video and graphics system of claim 9 , wherein the plurality of alpha values include at least one alpha value per each of the plurality of graphics windows.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
38 words
The video and graphics system of claim 10 , wherein each graphics window comprises a plurality of pixels, and wherein the plurality of alpha values comprise at least one alpha value per each of the plurality of pixels.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
152 words
A video and graphics system comprising: a display engine comprising: an input for receiving data representing graphics from a memory, wherein the data representing graphics defines a plurality of graphics windows; at least one first processing element for blending the plurality of graphics windows in parallel to generate a plurality of intermediate graphics images; and at least one second processing element for blending the plurality of intermediate graphics images to generate a blended graphics image, wherein the at least one first processing element comprises two first graphics blenders, the at least one second processing element comprises a second graphics blender, and wherein at least two graphics windows are blended together in each of the two first graphics blenders in parallel to generate one of the intermediate graphics images, and the intermediate graphics images are provided to the second graphics blender for blending the intermediate graphics images to generate the blended graphics image.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
152 words
A video and graphics system comprising: a display engine comprising: an input for receiving data representing graphics from a memory, wherein the data representing graphics defines a plurality of graphics windows; at least one first processing element for blending the plurality of graphics windows in parallel to generate a plurality of intermediate graphics images; and at least one second processing element for blending the plurality of intermediate graphics images to generate a blended graphics image, wherein the at least one first processing element comprises two first graphics blenders, the at least one second processing element comprises a second graphics blender, and wherein at least two graphics windows are blended together in each of the two first graphics blenders in parallel to generate one of the intermediate graphics images, and the intermediate graphics images are provided to the second graphics blender for blending the intermediate graphics images to generate the blended graphics image.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
32 words
The video and graphics system of claim 4 , further comprising a video compositor for compositing the blended graphics image with a video image to generate a composited video and graphics image.
Claim 17
Independent Claim
60 words
A method of blending a plurality of graphics windows to generate a blended graphics image, comprising: receiving data representing graphics, the data representing graphics defining the plurality of graphics windows; blending the plurality of graphics windows in parallel to generate a plurality of intermediate graphics images; and blending the plurality of intermediate graphics images to generate the blended graphics image.
Claim 18
Independent Claim
60 words
A method of blending a plurality of graphics windows to generate a blended graphics image, comprising: receiving data representing graphics, the data representing graphics defining the plurality of graphics windows; blending the plurality of graphics windows in parallel to generate a plurality of intermediate graphics images; and blending the plurality of intermediate graphics images to generate the blended graphics image.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
21 words
The method of claim 14 , further comprising processing the graphics windows to place them in a common format for blending.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
19 words
The method of claim 14 , further comprising arranging the graphics windows in an order suitable for parallel processing.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
30 words
The method of claim 14 , wherein blending the plurality of graphics windows in parallel comprises blending the plurality of graphics windows in parallel using a plurality of alpha values.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
25 words
The method of claim 17 wherein the plurality of alpha values include at least one alpha value per each of the plurality of graphics windows.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
37 words
The method of claim 18 wherein each of the plurality of graphics windows comprises a plurality of pixels, and the plurality of alpha values comprise at least one alpha value per each of the plurality of pixels.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
25 words
The method of claim 14 , further comprising compositing the blended graphics image with a video image to generate a composited video and graphics image.
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