Fast display of images having a small number of colors with a VG

Details Fast display of images having a small number of colors with a VG Fast display of images having a small number of colors with a VG

1996-06-11

1998-10-06

Lao, Lun-Yi

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphic processing system

Integrated circuit

345132, 345153, 345114, G09G 506

Patent

active

058184651

ABSTRACT:
An approach to outputting 256-color pixel data more quickly than conventional systems is provided. In this approach, a word of data encoding a color bit map for up to eight pixels may be stored in a system buffer and then written to a video adapter. The video adapter is configured such that color codes for multiple pixels may be simultaneously written into the planes of the display memory of the adapter. As a result, 256-color pixel data may be more quickly drawn on a video display than in conventional systems.

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