Owner Microsoft Corporation

Inventors Estrop, Stephen J

Agent Davies Collison Cave

Pub. Number AU-B-2003203711

Priority 60/413060 24.09.02 US; 60/372880 15.04.02 US

Filing date 14 April 2003

Wipo publication date 6 November 2003

Acceptance publication date 19 November 2009

G06F 13/38 (2006.01) Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units - Information transfer, e.g. on bus

G06F 3/14 (2006.01) Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer - Digital output to display device

G06F 9/30 (2006.01) Arrangements for programme control, e.g. control unit - Arrangements for executing machine- instructions, e.g. instruction decode

G06F 13/10 (2006.01) Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units - Programme control for peripheral devices

G06F 13/14 (2006.01) Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output devices or central processing units - Handling requests for interconnection or transfer

G06F 15/16 (2006.01) Digital computers in general - Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a programme unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programmes

G06T 1/00 (2006.01) General purpose image data processing

G06T 5/00 (2006.01) Image enhancement or restoration, e.g. from bit-mapped to bit-mapped creating a similar image

G06T 15/00 (2006.01) Three dimensional (3D) image rendering, e.g. from a model to a bit-mapped image

H04N 1/46 (2006.01) Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission - Colour picture communication systems

H04N 7/26 (2006.01) Television systems - using bandwidth reduction

H04N 9/04 (2006.01) Details of colour television systems - Picture signal generators