Invention Grant
- Patent Title: User interface pipe scalers with active regions
- Patent Title (中): 用户界面管道缩放器与活动区域
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Application No.: US12950267Application Date: 2010-11-19
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Publication No.: US08717391B2Publication Date: 2014-05-06
- Inventor: Joseph P. Bratt , Peter F. Holland
- Applicant: Joseph P. Bratt , Peter F. Holland
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.
- Agent Lawrence J. Merkel
- Main IPC: G09G5/00
- IPC: G09G5/00 ; G06F13/00 ; G09G5/02

Abstract:
A display pipe may include fetch circuitry and a scaler unit, and registers programmable with information that defines active regions of an image frame. Pixels within the active regions are active pixels to be displayed, pixels outside of the active regions are inactive pixels not to be displayed. The fetch circuitry may retrieve frames from memory, retrieving the active pixels and not retrieving the inactive pixels as defined by the programmed contents of the registers. A scaler unit may produce scaled pixels from the fetched pixels, basing each scaled pixel on a respective corresponding set of pixels. When a given pixel of the respective corresponding set of pixels is an inactive pixel, the scaler unit may assign an estimated value to the given pixel based on one or more active pixels in the respective corresponding set of pixels. The scaler unit may provide the scaled pixels to a blend unit for blending with other pixels.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120127193A1 User Interface Pipe Scalers with Active Regions Public/Granted day:2012-05-24
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