Patent ID: 6950097

Claim:
An apparatus including a video display interface controller for a host video display unit, comprising: a first plurality of signal terminals that convey a plurality of multiplexed input signals including a plurality of component video signals and a first plurality of control signals, wherein said first plurality of control signals includes address information and data information, and said address information corresponds to at least one local address and at least one remote address; a second plurality of signal terminals that convey a second plurality of control signals corresponding to a portion of said data information related to said at least one local address; a third plurality of signal terminals that convey a third plurality of control signals including another portion of said data information and a portion of said address information corresponding to said at least one remote address; interface circuitry, coupled to said first, second and third pluralities of signal terminals, that receives and processes said plurality of multiplexed input signals to provide said second and third pluralities of control signals; and first video control circuitry, coupled to said second plurality of signal terminals, that receives said second plurality of control signals and in response thereto provides a first plurality of video control signals; and first video processing circuitry, coupled to said first plurality of signal terminals and said first video control circuitry, that receives said plurality of multiplexed input signals and said first plurality of video control signals and in response thereto processes said plurality of component video signals to provide a plurality of processed video signals.