Patents by Inventor Edvard Sørg{dot over (a)}rd

Edvard Sørg{dot over (a)}rd 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).

  • Forming a windowing display in a frame buffer
    Patent number: 8803898
    Abstract: A windowing display using deferred drawing commands operates by processing the drawing commands that write to a tile 22 of a frame buffer 30 to form one or more new pixel values are stored within a tile memory 40. Dirty pixel data indicative of which pixels within the tile memory are dirty pixels storing new pixel values and which pixels within the tile memory are clean pixels not storing new pixel values is also formed. In dependence upon the dirty pixel data, the new pixel value stored within the tile memory are written to the frame buffer memory. Pixels stored within the frame buffer memory corresponding to clean pixels within the tile memory remain unaltered as they are not written.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventors: David Robert Shreiner, Ian Victor Devereux, Edvard Sørg{dot over (a)}rd, Thomas Jeremy Olson