System and method for periodic reset of a display

• US 20070024744A1
• Filed: 07/26/2005
• Published: 02/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Foo, Ken, Kaehler, John
• Application Number:
  US11/189,484
• Publication Number:
  US 20070024744A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/448
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0232 Special driving of display border areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/08 Fault-tolerant or redundant circuits, or circuits in which repair of defects is prepared
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/427 Display on the fly, e.g. simultaneous writing to and reading from decoding memory

Abstract

An electronic device having a video circuit for driving a display (100), the video circuit comprising one or more working registers (240) and a reset circuit (220, 230). The working register or registers (240) store video parameters of the display (100) and, optionally, the video circuit may be associated with one or more video synchronization signal (210). The reset circuit (220, 230) receives a periodic signal, such as the video synchronization signal or signals (210), and provides predetermined video parameters to the working register or registers (240) of the video circuit in response to receiving the periodic signal.

Claims

1. An electronic device having a video circuit for driving a display, the video circuit comprising:

at least one working register for storing video parameters of the display; and

a reset circuit configured to provide predetermined video parameters to the at least one working register of the video circuit in response to receiving a periodic signal.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein:

the video circuit is associated with at least one video synchronization signal; and

the reset circuit is configured to receive the at least one video synchronization signal and to provide the predetermined video parameters to the at least one working register of the video circuit after each occurrence of receiving the at least one video synchronization signal.

3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the at least one video synchronization signal associated with the video circuit includes a vertical synchronization signal.

4. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the at least one video synchronization signal associated with the video circuit includes a horizontal synchronization signal.

5. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the reset circuit comprises:

a counter circuit configured to receive the at least one video synchronization signal and to generate a reset signal based on the at least one video synchronization signal; and

a latch configured to provide the predetermined video parameters to the at least one working register in response to the reset signal.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising a multiplexer configured to identify a particular video parameter among a plurality of video parameters associated with the video circuit.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the display is reset while the video circuit is scanning in an overscan region of the display.

8. A method of an electronic device having a video circuit for driving a display, the video circuit including at least one working register for storing video parameters of the display, the method comprising:

receiving a periodic signal; and

providing predetermined video parameters to the at least one working register of the video circuit in response to receiving the periodic signal.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein:

receiving a periodic signal includes receiving at least one video synchronization signal associated with the video circuit; and

providing predetermined video parameters to the at least one working register of the video circuit includes providing the predetermined video parameters to the at least one working register of the video circuit after each occurrence of receiving the at least one video synchronization signal.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein receiving at least one video synchronization signal associated with the video circuit includes receiving a vertical synchronization signal.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein receiving at least one video synchronization signal associated with the video circuit includes receiving a horizontal synchronization signal.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising generating a reset signal based on the at least one video synchronization signal, wherein providing predetermined video parameters to the at least one working register of the video circuit includes providing the predetermined video parameters to the at least one working register in response to the reset signal.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising identifying a particular video parameter among a plurality of video parameters associated with the video circuit.

14. The method of claim 8, further comprising resetting the display while scanning in an overscan region of the display.