A memory controller performs DMA operations on arbitrary sized elements unbounded by the word size of the host memory or processor, which performs operations based on an element that represents an atomic data unit such as a pixel. In this manner, a corresponding coding effort is not concerned with computing and locating word boundaries and accommodating unused bits of data conventionally used for accommodating word boundaries on pixel data for video rendering, for example. An element in memory corresponds to a rendered atomic data item, such as a pixel. The controller determines an element precision indicative of a size of the element, and identifies a unit of memory based on a memory location and a packed representation of a plurality of the elements relative to the memory location. The unit has a height and width, defining elements arranged in a grid, and an element position is based on coordinates.

Methods, systems and apparatuses for processing a plurality of threads of a single-instruction multiple data (SIMD) group are disclosed. One method includes initializing a current instruction pointer of the SIMD group, initializing a thread instruction pointer for each of the plurality of threads of the SIMD group including setting a flag for each of the plurality of threads, determining whether a current instruction of the processing includes a conditional branch, resetting a flag of each thread of the plurality of threads that fails a condition of the conditional branch, and setting the thread instruction pointer for each of the plurality of threads that fails the condition of the conditional branch to a jump instruction pointer, and incrementing the current instruction pointer and each thread instruction pointer of the threads that do not fail, if at least one of the threads do not fail the condition.

Methods, systems, and media for presenting interstitial animations are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving metadata associated with a video; receiving a request to present the video; causing the video to begin buffering; generating, using a hardware processor, an animation based on the metadata; causing the animation to be presented until a predetermined amount of the video has been buffered; and causing the video to be presented upon buffering the predetermined amount of the video.

A display device that is driven with low power and a method for operating the display device are provided. The display device includes a host; a controller to which a first signal is supplied from the host; and a display panel to which a second signal is supplied from the controller. When the first signal includes image data, the first signal includes a command indicating the presence of the image data. When the controller detects the command, the controller supplies the image data as the second signal. When the controller does not detect the command, the controller stops supplying the second signal. After the controller stops supplying the second signal for a predetermined time, the controller resumes supplying the second signal regardless of whether or not the first signal includes the command.

The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for data transfer in LED display. A signal signaling a timing for a next data transfer is received. In response to the signal, a next data transfer instruction is obtained that instructs reading a bit-based image block of an image from a memory. The bit-based image block is transferred, according to the next data transfer instruction, from the memory via a bus connected thereto, to one of a pair of alternate buffers pointed to by a write buffer pointer. Then, the write buffer pointer is toggled to point to another of the pair of alternate buffers and the process repeats. The bit-based image blocks alternately stored in the buffers are later retrieved and displayed on the LED display.

This application is directed to a method of managing processing capability of a server system having one or more processing cores that further include multiple processing slices. Upon receiving requests to initiate online gaming sessions, the server system allocates each processing slice of the processing cores to a subset of the online gaming sessions to be executed thereon. A first processing slice is allocated to a first subset of the online gaming sessions including a first gaming session and a second gaming session. At the first processing slice, a time-sharing processing schedule is determined for the first subset of the online gaming sessions. In accordance with the time-sharing processing schedule, the first and second gaming sessions share a duty cycle of the first processing slice, and are executed dynamically and in parallel according to real-time data processing need of the first and second gaming sessions.

An information processing apparatus includes: a processor; an image processor to produce an image data for being displayed on a display; and a memory to store a screen data, the screen data being capable of being transferred from the memory to the image processor at a higher transfer rate and a lower transfer rate; wherein, when a new screen data is transferred from the memory to the image processor, the processor sets the lower transfer rate during an interval at which the image processor switches the image data from an old image data to a new image data.

A display device includes an encoder having at least one translation table, and encoding m (m is a natural number) bits of a data to n (n is a natural number and n>m) bits of a data on a basis of the at least one translation table; a clock recovery circuit configured to recover a clock from the data encoded by the encoder; a decoder configured to decode the n bits of the encoded data to the m bits of the data in accordance with the clock recovered by the clock recovery circuit; an output driver configured to output a voltage in accordance with the data decoded by the decoder; and a display element having a pixel applied with the voltage.

In a mobile device with a processing unit, main memory, display memory and display, a context module identifies a user-context, a determiner module determines correspondence or non-correspondence of data images in the main memory to the user-context, a first selector module selects corresponding data images for access by the display memory in case of correspondence, a second selector module select data items in case of non-correspondence, a transformation module transforms selected data items to corresponding data images and stores them in the main memory, and an access module lets the display memory access the selected data images.

The disclosed systems and methods relate in general to the field of user input to a touch sensitive device, and in particular to user input systems and methods which can reduce the latency between a most recent input event and the displaying of a rendered frame reflecting such input. In an embodiment, a method for decreasing latency between an input touch event and the display of a frame reflecting the input touch event in a touch sensitive device includes estimating the time of a next frame refresh, receiving from the operating system touch data reflective of an input touch event, determining the application associated with the input touch event, estimating the time it will take the application to process and render the received touch data, determining a time at which delivery of the touch data to the application will permit the application to process and render the touch data prior to the time of the next frame refresh, based at least in part on the estimated time it will take the application to process and render the touch data, and the estimated time of the next frame refresh, and providing the touch data to the application just prior to the determined time.