frame buffer

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frame buffer - (computer science) a buffer that stores the contents of an image pixel by pixel

buffer storage, buffer store, buffer - (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system

computer graphics - the pictorial representation and manipulation of data by a computer

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So the functions in both components must be synchronized when accessing the frame buffer.

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To convey the potential of motion video stored and manipulated in a frame buffer, another demonstration was developed showing several video windows bouncing around the screen, each playing a different motion video sequence (Figure 8).

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Raster graphics displays are almost always refreshed out of a frame buffer in which a digital representation of the currently visible image is kept.

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A typical application uses at least four pieces of 3D-RAM5 per system, resulting in an unmatchable 36Gbyte per second minimum aggregate data bandwidth from the frame buffer DRAM.

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The NVIDIA Quadro FX Go700 is backed by an extensive professional application certification program and features the industry's only true 128-bit floating-point frame buffer, 12 bits of subpixel precision, and parallelised vertex engines to deliver high performance for professionals in mission critical environments.

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"Mobile graphics products with larger frame buffer memory, such as Cougar3DM, is needed to deliver comparable 3D performance on notebooks to that of desktop PCs."

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The hardware is designed to support full 1080p resolution of the Panasonic MN34041 sensor at 60fps in streaming mode through the FPGA, without the need for an external frame buffer. The integrated Image Signal Processing IP pipeline provides ISP support from sensor to displayable image and incorporates sensor interfacing, defective pixel correction and 2D noise reduction.

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A wide 512-bit memory interface joins the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 280 series graphics processors with the large frame buffer. The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 280 AMP!

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The sample measures the difference between drawing the basic scene (screenshot and moving triangles), and drawing the basic scene plus down-sampling to working texture size, applying blur and applying results back to the full resolution frame buffer texture.