Apple Patent For Making Your LCD TV a fair Better Digital Photo Frame [Patents]

Apple claims that their TV work is only a hobby, but that doesn’t mean they don’t innovate for the front room. A newly published patent outlines an LCD TV that has separate modes for video and still photos.

Apple is into the basis of users sharing photos-the beautiful stacks interface that was given top billing at the iPad launch event made that clear. Now they’re desirous about how one can make sharing photos easier from the couch.

Their patent describes a display with two distinct modes: a ” ‘streaming’ display mode” for video and a ” frame-buffered” display mode for better quality still images. Patently Apple gets into the nitty gritty:

Embodiments of the prevailing disclosure provide a system with a display which may operate in no less than two display modes: a ” frame-buffered” display mode, which include CPU-style interface, and a ” streaming” display mode,” which include an RGB-style interface. Within the ” frame-buffered” display mode, the processor writes image data to a frame memory of the motive force IC [integrated circuit] as the image changes, and the driving force IC periodically refreshes the display panel from the frame memory. In this system, the processor may reduce processing overhead by writing new image data to the motive force IC frame memory only when some component to the image changes. …

In the ” streaming” display mode, the processor writes a continual stream of image data to the motive force IC, and the motive force IC may process and route the streaming image data to the display panel without storing the information in a frame memory. In this technique, the processor would not write to frame memory and, therefore, no memory addressing information may well be included inside the data stream. Using this system, the processing overhead excited about writing data to the motive force IC memory could be reduced.

Sounds awfully complicated for a hobby!

While one method is often predetermined to be used other than the opposite, dynamically switching between both could lessen power usage for the display. Does more efficient photo display make an Apple TV any less stupid of an concept? [ PatentlyApple ]

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