Apparatus and method for combining video frame and graphics frame
US9466089B2 · kind B2 · utility
Assignee
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 7, 2014 |
| Grant date | Oct 11, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 14, 2035 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG09G2370/022
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A signal processor of the invention includes a host processor, a command queue, a graphics decoding circuit, a video decoding circuit, a composition engine and two display buffers. The host processor generates graphics commands and sets a video flag to active based on graphics encoded data, video encoded data and mask encoded data from a network. The command queue asserts a control signal according to the graphics commands. The graphics decoding circuit generates the graphics frame and two surface mask while the video decoding circuit generates the video frame and a video mask. The composition engine transfers the graphics frame, the video frame or a content of one of two display buffers to the other display buffer according to the video mask and the two surface masks when the control signal is asserted or when the video flag is active.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.