Title: Transparent compatibility and adaptation to differing format implementations in a computer system
Type: issued patent
Patent number: 7,180,526
Issue date: February 20, 2007
Filing date: April 1, 2004 (priority to May 10, 1996)
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AIPW Summary: A method for communicating between an application program and a display device. The application generates output in a first format to a first frame buffer, and the display generates its output based on the contents of a second frame buffer (with data in a second format). This invention translates (transforms) data from the first format to the second format, thereby making the application output display format independent of the display device format. So application output formats can change or display formats can change without requiring a change in the other.