Patent ID: 6657646
Filing Date: 2003-12-02
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A system of multimedia display on a monitor screen comprising:at least one graphics source, each graphics source disposed to provide graphics information and having an associated key color value; a display file defining a page having a plurality of windows, each window having a set of properties and disposed to display graphics information received from a specified one of the graphics sources; a graphics controller operable to generate a pixel map according to the display file; and a graphics arbitrator coupled to the graphics controller and operable to examine each pixel in the pixel map in order to select a pixel to be displayed for the page according to the display file, the graphics arbitrator being further operable to select the pixel to be displayed from a particular graphics source when the examined pixel matches the key color value of the particular graphics source, and to select the examined pixel as the pixel to be displayed when the examined pixel does not match the key color value of any of the graphics sources.