Patent ID: 7528837
Filing Date: 2009-05-05
Classification: G06F,G06T,G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. A drawing apparatus that records image data in a frame memory, comprising: a cache memory; an area specifying unit configured to specify an area of the frame memory, for recording the image data, to be a drawing target; a recording unit configured to (i) determine partial image data pieces in a case where the frame memory is sectionalized into blocks by one or more boundaries, specified by a byte count to be a unit of a burst transfer, each of the partial image data pieces being a part of the image data and recorded in a corresponding one of the blocks including therein the specified area, and (ii) record each of the determined partial image data pieces in the cache memory in a distinguishable manner; and a memory-to-memory transfer control unit operable to carry out the burst transfer of each of the partial image data pieces recorded in the cache memory to the corresponding one of the blocks within the frame memory.