Patent ID: 7800623

Claim:
A pipelined method of displaying video data at a display unit, the display unit comprising: a display unit interface, a single line buffer used for storing video data to be displayed, the single line buffer having a size in accordance with a scan line for display; and a plurality of display elements, the method comprising: (a) receiving video data packets associated with the scan line for display at the display unit interface; (b) directly populating the single line buffer using the video data packets received at the display unit interface within a line period τ, the line period τ corresponding to the scan line for display; (c) only when the single line buffer is full, passing the video data stored in the single line buffer directly to selected of the plurality of display elements, corresponding to the scan line for display; and (d) concurrently with passing the video data (c), directly populating the single line buffer using video data packets received at the display unit interface, the received video data packets associated with a next scan line for display.