Patents by Inventor Kazushige Yamagishi
Kazushige Yamagishi 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).
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Patent number: 6600492Abstract: In order to assure that a plurality of circuits such as a CPU I/F circuit, a rendering circuit, a video input circuit and a display circuit, which are each required to always complete a processing within a prescribed time, are each assured the ability to make as many accesses to a memory as required to complete the processing within the prescribed time, it is necessary to arbitrate a contention for an access to the memory through an internal bus among the circuits by employing a bus control circuit wherein priority levels assigned to the circuits to make an access to the internal bus are dynamically changed by comparing degrees of access urgency among the circuits. In this way, circuits that each have to always complete theirs processing within a prescribed time are assured the ability to make as many accesses to the memory as required to complete the processing within the prescribed time even if a plurality of such circuits do exist.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1999Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Shimomura, Shigeru Matsuo, Kazuyoshi Koga, Koyo Katsura, Yasuhiro Nakatsuka, Kazushige Yamagishi
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Publication number: 20030126353Abstract: A data processor comprising: a bus control circuit adapted to be interfaced with a synchronous DRAM which can be accessed in synchronism with a clock signal; a plurality of data processing modules coupled to said bus control circuit for producing data and addresses for accessing a memory; and a clock driver for feeding intrinsic operation clocks to said data processing modules and for feeding the clock signal for accessing said memory in synchronism with the operations of said data processing modules to be operated by the operation clock signals, to the outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2003Publication date: July 3, 2003Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Satoh, Kazushige Yamagishi, Keisuke Nakashima, Koyo Katsura, Takashi Miyamoto, Mitsuru Watabe, Kenichiroh Ohmura
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Patent number: 6587111Abstract: A graphic processor including a rendering control circuit which carries out weighted averaging on pieces of pixel data of source image information arranged to form a pixel-data matrix corresponding to a pixel matrix with columns of the pixel-data matrix being oriented perpendicularly to a scanning direction in order to compute a weighted average of pieces of pixel data on rows of the pixel-data matrix adjacent to each other and on a column of the pixel-data matrix perpendicular to the scanning direction in so-called blend processing. The rendering control circuit reads out pieces of pixel data from the pixel-data matrix sequentially in a direction perpendicular to the scanning direction and computes a weighted average of the pieces of data. Image data subjected to blend processing is displayed by adopting an interlace scanning technique thereby eliminating undesired flicker.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2001Date of Patent: July 1, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Yasuhiro Nakatsuka, Kazushige Yamagishi
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Publication number: 20030115496Abstract: A data processor comprising: a bus control circuit adapted to be interfaced with a synchronous DRAM which can be accessed in synchronism with a clock signal; a plurality of data processing modules coupled to said bus control circuit for producing data and addresses for accessing a memory; and a clock driver for feeding intrinsic operation clocks to said data processing modules and for feeding the clock signal for accessing said memory in synchronism with the operations of said data processing modules to be operated by the operation clock signals, to the outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2003Publication date: June 19, 2003Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Satoh, Kazushige Yamagishi, Keisuke Nakashima, Koyo Katsura, Takashi Miyamoto, Mitsuru Watabe, Kenichiroh Ohmura
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Patent number: 6550014Abstract: A data processor comprising: a bus control circuit adapted to be interfaced with a synchronous DRAM which can be accessed in synchronism with a clock signal; a plurality of data processing modules coupled to said bus control circuit for producing data and addresses for accessing a memory; and a clock driver for feeding intrinsic operation clocks to said data processing modules and for feeding the clock signal for accessing said memory in synchronism with the operations of said data processing modules to be operated by the operation clock signals, to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2002Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Satoh, Kazushige Yamagishi, Keisuke Nakashima, Koyo Katsura, Takashi Miyamoto, Mitsuru Watabe, Kenichiroh Ohmura
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Publication number: 20030048274Abstract: The present invention can be introduced to an architecture such as a personal computer or an amusement equipment for realizing a high-speed graphic processing. In the case where a frame buffer, a command memory and an image processor are integrated in one chip in order to improve the drawing performance of an image processing device, each of the frame buffer and the command memory is constructed by a plurality of identical memory modules and the same row address is allotted to each memory module, thereby increasing the memory address depth. Thereby, it is possible to realize an incorporated frame buffer and an incorporated command memory each of which has a large capacity when seen from the image processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2002Publication date: March 13, 2003Inventors: Kazushige Yamagishi, Jun Sato, Takashi Miyamoto
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Patent number: 6504548Abstract: The present invention can be introduced to an architecture such as a personal computer or an amusement equipment for realizing a high-speed graphic processing. In the case where a frame buffer, a command memory and an image processor are integrated in one chip in order to improve the drawing performance of an image processing device, each of the frame buffer and the command memory is constructed by a plurality of identical memory modules and the same row address is allotted to each memory module, thereby increasing the memory address depth. Thereby, it is possible to realize an incorporated frame buffer and an incorporated command memory each of which has a large capacity when seen from the image processor.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2001Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazushige Yamagishi, Jun Sato, Takashi Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20020190992Abstract: A data processor comprising: a bus control circuit adapted to be interfaced with a synchronous DRAM which can be accessed in synchronism with a clock signal; a plurality of data processing modules coupled to said bus control circuit for producing data and addresses for accessing a memory; and a clock driver for feeding intrinsic operation clocks to said data processing modules and for feeding the clock signal for accessing said memory in synchronism with the operations of said data processing modules to be operated by the operation clock signals, to the outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2002Publication date: December 19, 2002Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Satoh, Kazushige Yamagishi, Keisuke Nakashima, Koyo Katsura, Takashi Miyamoto, Mitsuru Watabe, Kenichiroh Ohmura
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Patent number: 6496610Abstract: The present invention may be introduced to an architecture such as a personal computer or an amusement equipment for realizing a high-speed graphic processing and provides an optimum arrangement along the flow of information in the case where a frame buffer, a command memory and an image processor are incorporated in one chip in order to improve the drawing performance of an image processing device. Thereby, unnecessary drawing-around of wiring is eliminated and it is possible to reduce the chip area. Further, since the wiring length is shortened, signal delay becomes small, thereby enabling a high-speed operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1998Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazushige Yamagishi, Jun Sato, Takashi Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20020174292Abstract: A memory controller is disclosed, in which upon receipt of an access request from a device, the memory controller activates a page designated by a row address of a first bank at a predetermined memory cycle, based on the access request. After that, before the read access to a page of the first bank, a second bank next to be accessed is precharged. In the case where a page mishit occurs due to the access from the first bank to the second bank by the graphic processing after the access to the first bank by the read operation, the memory controller activates the second bank immediately without precharging.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2001Publication date: November 21, 2002Inventors: Yuichiro Morita, Manabu Jyou, Yasuhiro Nakatsuka, Tetsuya Shimomura, Yutaka Okada, Kazushige Yamagishi
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Patent number: 6466221Abstract: A data processor comprising: a bus control circuit adapted to be interfaced with a synchronous DRAM which can be accessed in synchronism with a clock signal; a plurality of data processing modules coupled to said bus control circuit for producing data and addresses for accessing a memory; and a clock driver for feeding intrinsic operation clocks to said data processing modules and for feeding the clock signal for accessing said memory in synchronism with the operations of said data processing modules to be operated by the operation clock signals, to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2001Date of Patent: October 15, 2002Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Satoh, Kazushige Yamagishi, Keisuke Nakashima, Koyo Katsura, Takashi Miyamoto, Mitsuru Watabe, Kenichiroh Ohmura
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Patent number: 6384831Abstract: In a graphic processor, a rendering control circuit carries out weighted averaging on pieces of pixel data of source image information arranged to form a pixel-data matrix corresponding to a pixel matrix with columns of the pixel-data matrix being oriented perpendicularly to a scanning direction in order to compute a weighted average of pieces of pixel data on rows of the pixel-data matrix adjacent to each other and on a column of the pixel-data matrix perpendicular to the scanning direction in so-called blend processing. It is thus possible to eliminate a difference in image information between adjacent scanning lines, which is big in some cases. In this case, the rendering control circuit reads out pieces of pixel data from the pixel-data matrix sequentially in a direction perpendicular to the scanning direction and computes a weighted average of the pieces of data.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1998Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Yasuhiro Nakatsuka, Kazushige Yamagishi
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Publication number: 20020033827Abstract: A graphic processor including a rendering control circuit which carries out weighted averaging on pieces of pixel data of source image information arranged to form a pixel-data matrix corresponding to a pixel matrix with columns of the pixel-data matrix being oriented perpendicularly to a scanning direction in order to compute a weighted average of pieces of pixel data on rows of the pixel-data matrix adjacent to each other and on a column of the pixel-data matrix perpendicular to the scanning direction in so-called blend processing. The rendering control circuit reads out pieces of pixel data from the pixel-data matrix sequentially in a direction perpendicular to the scanning direction and computes a weighted average of the pieces of data. Image data subjected to blend processing is displayed by adopting an interlace scanning technique thereby eliminating undesired flicker.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2001Publication date: March 21, 2002Inventors: Atsushi Nakamura, Yasuhiro Nakatsuka, Kazushige Yamagishi
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Publication number: 20020030687Abstract: The basic section of the multimedia data-processing system comprises CPU 1100, image display unit 2100, unified memory 1200, system bus 1920, and devices 1300, 1400, and 1500 connected to the system bus. In this configuration, the CPU is formed on LSI mounted on a single silicon wafer including instruction processing unit 1110 and display control unit 1140. Main storage area 1210 and display area 1220 are stored within the unified memory. Unified memory port 1910 for connecting the corresponding LSI and the unified memory is provided independently of the system bus intended to connect the LSI and the input/output devices. The unified memory port can be driven faster than system bus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2001Publication date: March 14, 2002Inventors: Yasuhiro Nakatsuka, Tetsuya Shimomura, Manabu Jyou, Yuichiro Morita, Takashi Hotta, Kazushige Yamagishi, Yutaka Okada
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Publication number: 20020027556Abstract: The present invention may be introduced to an architecture such as a personal computer or an amusement equipment for realizing a high-speed graphic processing and provides an optimum arrangement along the flow of information in the case where a frame buffer, a command memory and an image processor are incorporated in one chip in order to improve the drawing performance of an image processing device. Thereby, unnecessary drawing-around of wiring is eliminated and it is possible to reduce the chip area. Further, since the wiring length is shortened, signal delay becomes small, thereby enabling a high-speed operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 1998Publication date: March 7, 2002Inventors: KAZUSHIGE YAMAGISHI, JUN SATO, TAKASHI MIYAMOTO
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Publication number: 20020008705Abstract: The present invention can be introduced to an architecture such as a personal computer or an amusement equipment for realizing a high-speed graphic processing. In the case where a frame buffer, a command memory and an image processor are integrated in one chip in order to improve the drawing performance of an image processing device, each of the frame buffer and the command memory is constructed by a plurality of identical memory modules and the same row address is allotted to each memory module, thereby increasing the memory address depth. Thereby, it is possible to realize an incorporated frame buffer and an incorporated command memory each of which has a large capacity when seen from the image processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2001Publication date: January 24, 2002Inventors: Kazushige Yamagishi, Jun Sato, Takashi Miyamoto
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Patent number: 6327681Abstract: The present invention may be introduced to an architecture such as a personal computer or an amusement equipment for realizing a high-speed graphic processing. When a frame buffer, a command memory and an image processor are incorporated in one chip in order to improve the drawing performance of an image processing device, a test terminal and a test bus are provided in the image processing device, and a test port is provided in each memory module and is connected to a common test bus, so that a content of each incorporated memory module is monitored externally when it is tested. Thereby, it is possible to employ the conventional testing method itself in testing the memory modules.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1998Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazushige Yamagishi, Jun Sato, Takashi Miyamoto
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Patent number: 6295074Abstract: The present invention can be introduced to an architecture such as a personal computer or an amusement equipment for realizing a high-speed graphic processing. In the case where a frame buffer, a command memory and an image processor are integrated in one chip in order to improve the drawing performance of an image processing device, each of the frame buffer and the command memory is constructed by a plurality of identical memory modules and the same row address is allotted to each memory module, thereby increasing the memory address depth. Thereby, it is possible to realize an incorporated frame buffer and an incorporated command memory each of which has a large capacity when seen from the image processor.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1998Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazushige Yamagishi, Jun Sato, Takashi Miyamoto
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Patent number: 6288728Abstract: A data processor comprising: a bus control circuit adapted to be interfaced with a synchronous DRAM which can be accessed in synchronism with a clock signal; a plurality of data processing modules coupled to said bus control circuit for producing data and addresses for accessing a memory; and a clock driver for feeding intrinsic operation clocks to said data processing modules and for feeding the clock signal for accessing said memory in synchronism with the operations of said data processing modules to be operated by the operation clock signals, to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2000Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Satoh, Kazushige Yamagishi, Keisuke Nakashima, Koyo Katsura, Takashi Miyamoto, Mitsuru Watabe, Kenichiroh Ohmura
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Patent number: 6097404Abstract: A data processor comprising: a bus control circuit adapted to be interfaced with a synchronous DRAM which can be accessed in synchronism with a clock signal; a plurality of data processing modules coupled to said bus control circuit for producing data and addresses for accessing a memory; and a clock driver for feeding intrinsic operation clocks to said data processing modules and for feeding the clock signal for accessing said memory in synchronism with the operations of said data processing modules to be operated by the operation clock signals, to the outside.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1999Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Jun Satoh, Kazushige Yamagishi, Keisuke Nakashima, Koyo Katsura, Takashi Miyamoto, Mitsuru Watabe, Kenichiroh Ohmura