Sony Corporation

Hideki Takeuchi

Junichi Sakamoto

Hitoshi Ishikawa

Kazumasa Ito

Hideshi Yamada

Junichi Fujita

Masaharu Yoshimori

Kenichiro Yokota

Jin Satoh

Tanio Nagasaki

Minoru Takahata

Shinsuke Koyama

Mikako Hatakenaka

An information processing apparatus including: a plurality of data processing functional blocks each used for carrying out individual data processing; a flow control section configured to execute control of data flows among the data processing functional blocks; and a control section configured to carry out a setting process to set the data processing functional blocks and the flow control section. The control section acquires configuration information in accordance with a task list for data processing to be carried out; carries out the setting process to set the data processing functional blocks and the flow control section on the basis of the acquired configuration information; and constructs a data processing configuration adapted to various kinds of data processing to be carried out.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer program

A clipping device for reducing the number of processing cycles, and simplifying the circuit, while increasing the speed of the processing. The clipping device has a clip code generation circuit for generating clip codes corresponding to results of a comparison of vertex coordinates of a primitive and a judgment reference value of a multi-dimensional region and a negative value of the judgment reference value for the vertices of the primitive. The clipping device also includes: a current clip register for shifting the clip codes; clip registers able to replace the clip codes in accordance with a control signal; a control circuit outputting a control signal so as to replace the clip codes between clip registers when receiving a replacement instruction; and a logic circuit for performing a logic operation with respect to all bit data set in the clip registers. The device can also set a clip flag indicating whether or not the vertex to be judged is inside or outside a multi-dimensional region of an object to be drawn.

Clipping device

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hideki Takeuchi