1. A method, comprising:
identifying unwanted content stored in a frame buffer; and
preventing display of the unwanted content based on the identification of the unwanted content.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the unwanted content includes visual content.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the unwanted content includes pornography.
4. The method of claim 2, wherein the unwanted content includes video.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the display of the unwanted content includes display via a television.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the display of the unwanted content includes display via a personal computer.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying and the preventing are performed by a graphics processor.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein the graphics processor includes a graphics processing unit (GPU).
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying and the preventing are performed utilizing shader hardware.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying and the preventing are provided by computer code embodied on a graphics card.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein the computer code is incapable of being disabled.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein the unwanted content is prevented from being displayed by overwriting the unwanted content stored in the frame buffer with predefined content.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the predefined content includes a warning.
14. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying and the preventing are performed in parallel with other graphics processing.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein the other graphics processing includes rendering two dimensional content.
16. The method of claim 1, wherein the unwanted content is identified in response to a manually generated command to enable analysis of content stored in the frame buffer.
17. The method of claim 1, wherein the unwanted content is identified in response to an automatically generated command to enable analysis of content stored in the frame buffer, the command automatically generated based on a load of a graphics processor performing the identification of the unwanted content and the prevention of the display of the unwanted content.
18. A computer program product embodied on a tangible computer readable medium, comprising:
computer code for identifying unwanted content stored in a frame buffer; and
computer code for preventing display of the unwanted content based on the identification of the unwanted content.
19. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor for preventing display of unwanted content based on an identification of the unwanted content.
20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the processor remains in communication with memory and a display via a bus.
21. A method, comprising:
identifying unwanted audio; and
preventing audible output of the unwanted audio;
wherein a processor utilized for outputting audio performs the identifying and the preventing.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for forming a low heat absorbing extruded polymer structure comprising:
providing a first polymer in a first extruder;
providing a second polymer in a second extruder;
extruding the first polymer through a die to produce a structural preform;
co-extruding the second polymer onto an outer surface of the structural preform to provide a cap layer;
wherein at least a portion of the structural preform is substantially near-infrared (near-IR) reflective and the cap layer is substantially near-IR transmissive.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first polymer is selected from the group of PVC, PP, PE polymers and copolymers and mixtures thereof and the second polymer is selected from a group of ABS, AES, ASA, and PP, PE, and PVC polymers and copolymers and mixtures thereof.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the cap layer comprises TiO2.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the structural preform has a first coloration and the cap layer has a second coloration different from said first coloration.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the second coloration substantially obscures the first coloration.
6. The method of claim 4, wherein the cap layer is visibly opaque.
7. The method of claim 4, wherein the preform layer is white and the cap layer is black.
8. The method of claim 4, wherein the second coloration is provided by a pigment selected from the group consisting of pearlescent pigments, light-interference platelet pigments, ultramarine blue, ultramarine purple, cobalt chromite blue, cobalt aluminum blue, chrome titanate, nickel titanate, cadmum sulfide yellow, cadmium sulfide yellow, cadmium sulfoselenide orange, and organic pigments such as perylene pigments, phthalo blue, phthalo green, quinacridone red, diarylide yellow, and dioxazine purple.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the cap layer has a thickness of from about 0.5 mil to about 10 mil.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the cap layer further comprises near-IR reflecting pigment.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein the cap layer is substantially visibly clear.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of extruding the first polymer comprises providing the structural preform with a receiving surface for engaging a reinforcing member.
13. The method of claim 1, further comprising coupling a reinforcing member with said recess.
14. A method for controlling the dimensional stability of a polymeric building product, comprising:
selecting a first polymer having a deformation temperature;
selecting a second polymer;
co-extruding the first and second polymers to provide a multi-layer polymer profile comprising a substrate layer and a capping layer;
wherein said capping layer is visibly opaque due to the addition of a first pigment, and is substantially transparent to near-IR radiation; and
wherein the substrate layer is substantially reflective of near-IR radiation such that when the multi-layer polymer profile is exposed to direct sunlight, the heat absorbed by the profile will not increase the temperature of the profile to a value greater than the deformation temperature.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein the first polymer comprises PVC having a deformation temperature of about 70 degrees Celsius.
16. The method of claim 14, wherein the first pigment is selected from the group consisting of pearlescent pigments, light-interference platelet pigments, ultramarine blue, ultramarine purple, cobalt chromite blue, cobalt aluminum blue, chrome titanate, nickel titanate, cadmum sulfide yellow, cadmium sulfide yellow, cadmium sulfoselenide orange, and organic pigments such as perylene pigments, phthalo blue, phthalo green, quinacridone red, diarylide yellow, and dioxazine purple.
17. The method of claim 14, wherein the substrate layer reflects more than about 60% of incident near-IR radiation.
18. The method of claim 14, wherein the capping layer transmits more than about 50% of incident near-IR radiation to the substrate layer.
19. The method of claim 14, wherein the substrate layer comprises TiO2 pigment.
20. The method of claim 14, wherein the second polymer comprises ABS.
21. The method of claim 14, wherein the polymeric building product is selected from the group consisting of a fence rail, a fence post, a siding panel, a siding trim piece, a decking member, a window frame element and a roofing element.
22. The method of claim 14, wherein the polymeric building product comprises a roofing element selected from the group consisting of synthetic slates, synthetic tiles, and synthetic shakes.