Patent ID: 8487941

Claim:
An apparatus for processing an action script for a graphical image for visual display, the apparatus comprising: a first memory to store data; a first processor; and a second processor coupled to the first processor and to the first memory, the second processor to parse the action script into a plurality of descriptive elements and a corresponding plurality of variable length operand data sets, the plurality of descriptive elements specifying the graphical image in a non-pixel-by-pixel form; to directly convert each descriptive element of the plurality of descriptive elements of the action script into a corresponding operational code of a plurality of operational codes, each corresponding operational code comprising at least one graphical primitive instruction for native execution by the second processor or comprising a memory pointer to an address in the first memory having a sequence of graphical primitive instructions for native execution by the second processor; to directly convert each variable length operand data set of the corresponding plurality of variable length operand data sets into one or more control words and store the one or more control words in the first memory, each control word comprising operand data and one or more control bits in predetermined fields for the native execution of the one or more graphical primitive instructions by the second processor; and to directly execute the one or more graphical primitive instructions using the one or more control words to generate pixel data for the graphical image.