Patents by Inventor Christopher Mark LeBlanc

Christopher Mark LeBlanc has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus and method of performing screen to screen blits in a color sliced frame buffer architecture
    Patent number: 6061069
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for moving pixel data from one area of a frame buffer to another in block fashion are provided. In one embodiment of the invention, pixel data is decomposed into its RGB component and each RGB component is stored into the frame buffer in a particular memory bank. The pixel data is moved by moving all the components of the data stored in a memory bank before moving the components in other memory banks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Ray Johns, Christopher Mark LeBlanc, Richard Jesse Mitchell, John Thomas Roberson