Patent ID: 8174529

Claim:
A graphics processing unit comprising: a host interface configured to receive video data and audio data from a host; a memory controller configured to store the received video data and audio data in a memory; a plurality of processing cores coupled to the memory; an arithmetic control unit configured to detect characteristics of the video data by analyzing frames of the video data on the memory by using at least one first processing core of the plurality of processing cores, and to apply a process, which is associated with the detected characteristics of the video data, to the audio data on the memory, by using at least one second processing core of the plurality of processing cores; a video signal output interface configured to generate a video signal corresponding to the video data and to output the generated video signal to a display device; and an audio signal output interface configured to generate an audio signal corresponding to the audio data to which the process has been applied, and to output the generated audio signal to a sound device.