Patent ID: 7460136

Claim:
A graphics display system, comprising: a host to provide at least one parameter specifying an image size of a frame of pixels corresponding to an original image; an image data source to provide the original image; and a graphics controller to receive the frame corresponding with the original image from the image data source, the graphics controller being remote from the image data source and the host, and including: (a) a memory of a particular size to store a scaled frame; (b) a register to store the size of a portion of the memory allocated to store the scaled frame; (c) a fitting module to receive the at least one image size parameter from the host and to calculate a scale factor based on the original image size and the size of the portion of the memory allocated to store the scaled frame, wherein the register is only accessible by the fitting module, and (d) a scaling unit to scale the original image according to the scale factor.