Transform processor system having reduced processing bandwith

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention is generally directed to various levels of features; including display technology, processor technology, and system technology, and various features related thereto.
In particular, a display system is provided that may be characterized as a computer image generation (CIG) system.
It provides important visual features; such as 3D environment, anti-aliasing, occulting, visibility processing, illumination effects, and many other features for realistic visual effects.
One configuration of the visual system of the present invention will now be described.
This configuration can have a host system generating visual-related signals to the visual system.
The visual system generates visual images in response to signals from a host system, signals from a database memory, and signals from other sources, such as signals from observer controls.
The visual processor includes a supervisory processor and a real time processor to process input signals to generate processed visual signals that are used to update a refresh memory.
The refresh memory stores visual signals and is updated in response to processed visual signals from the real time processor and generates refresh signals for refreshing a display monitor.
A display interface signal processes refresh signals from the refresh memory to generate signal processed signals to the monitor.
The monitor generates visual information to an observer in response to the processed signals from the display interface.
The refresh memory can be a 2D refresh memory having a separate pixel word for each 2D pixel location to be displayed on a 2D monitor.
The visual processor may be implemented as a combination of a supervisory processor and a real time processor.
The supervisory processor may be a non-real time processor, such as a background processor, and the real time processor may be a foreground processor, such as implemented as a special purpose processor.
One configuration of the real time processor uses an incremental special purpose processor to perform high speed real time operations, such as changing an image in real time as an object moves through the display environment