Patent ID: 8441488

Claim:
An apparatus for processing an action script for visual display of a graphical image, the apparatus comprising: at least one memory circuit to store a plurality of operational codes and a plurality of control words; a parser circuit to parse the action script into a plurality of descriptive elements and corresponding data, and to extract data from the action script and to store the extracted data in the at least one memory circuit as the plurality of control words having the extracted data in predetermined fields, wherein the plurality of descriptive elements are a plurality of tags or bytecodes; a converter circuit to convert the plurality of descriptive elements of the action script into the plurality of operational codes; an execution circuit to perform a selected operation in response to a selected operational code of the plurality of operational codes using the extracted data stored in the at least one memory circuit to generate pixel data for the graphical image; a first decoder circuit to decode a descriptive element to determine a corresponding parsing operational code of the plurality of operational codes to control the parsing of the action script by the parser circuit; and a second decoder circuit to decode each operational code of the plurality of operational codes to generate a corresponding plurality of control signals to control the execution circuit to perform the selected operation, of a plurality of operations, corresponding to the selected operational code of the plurality of operational codes.