Apparatus and method for flicker reduction and over/underscan

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display peripheral interface input device

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345502, 345519, 345112, 345113, G09G 502

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ABSTRACT:
A single-chip video-graphics controller includes a novel circuit for eliminating full line buffers when reducing line-to-line flicker in a display image of non-interlaced data on an interlaced color display device such as an NTSC or PAL television projector. The flicker reduction circuit uses a pair of memory access agents for concurrently fetching even and odd interlace frames of the display image. Corresponding color pixels of the two frames are averaged on-the-fly, and the averaged output is converted to analog RGB output signals for driving the display device. The elimination of the full line buffers results in a savings of approximately 30,000 transistors per buffer and a corresponding reduction in operating power. A specific embodiment of the controller includes a vertical stretching circuit used to adjust the number of vertical lines corresponding to the display image permitting the vertical reformatting of any display image.

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