Patent ID: 8139077

Claim:
A system, comprising: storage comprising a first graphical pixel and a second graphical pixel, each of the first and second graphical pixels associated with binary codes having red, green and blue sub-codes; and processing logic coupled to the storage and adapted to alpha-blend the first and second graphical pixels to produce a blended pixel, the processing logic performs said alpha-blend using the binary codes having red, green and blue sub-codes in concatenated form without operating on the sub-codes individually; wherein the processing logic is adapted to alpha-blend the first and second graphical pixels by right-shifting and applying a first mask to each of said binary codes to produce a first result; and wherein the processing logic is adapted to: a) alpha-blend the first and second graphical pixels by applying a second mask to each of said binary codes to produce masked binary codes, b) summing the masked binary codes to produce a sum, and c) right-shifting the sum to produce a modified sum.