Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Simon Young Tao

David Foster Spruill

Rajat Jain

Stephen Proteau

Worachai Chaoweeraprasit

Zachary Scott Northrup

Jeff Bloomfield

Katie Anderson

Guangwen Yang

Luke Olsen

Richard Kirkpatrick Manning

Examples described herein generally apply color transforms to visual content. A set of color transforms in a graphics pipeline that are requested by a plurality of applications can be determined. At least one of the set of color transforms or an ordering of the set of color transforms can be modified, based on one or more arbitration rules, to generate an arbitrated set of color transforms. The visual content can be generated for display based at least in part on applying the arbitrated set of color transforms in the graphics pipeline.

Techniques for applying color transforms in rendering visual content

Devices and methods for controlling display brightness may include receiving a brightness input for controlling a luminance level of at least one display in communication with the computer device. The devices and methods may include receiving high dynamic range (HDR) content and standard dynamic range (SDR) content for presentation on at least one display. The devices and methods may include generating adjusted SDR content by using the brightness input to modify luminance of the SDR content. The devices and methods may include blending the adjusted SDR content and the HDR content together to create a composed framebuffer content with the adjusted SDR content and the HDR content and transmitting the composed framebuffer content for presentation on at least one display.

Controlling display brightness when rendering composed scene-referred and output-referred content

Described are examples for determining an effective color space of a display. A two-dimensional parametric surface that intersects a color volume defined for the display can be defined for at least one color volume vertex. A flat bitmap to which the two-dimensional parametric surface is mapped can be displayed, on the display, for the at least one color volume vertex. A selection of a point on the flat bitmap that corresponds to a perceived maximum color can be received for the at least one color volume vertex. The effective color space of the display can be determined based at least in part on the perceived maximum color selected for the at least one color volume vertex.

Techniques for determining effective color space of a display

Methods and devices for rendering interactive three-dimensional (3D) fonts may include receiving, at a text platform component executing on a computing device, a request from an application to render text. The methods and devices may include parsing the text to identify at least one glyph in the text. The methods and devices may include accessing a font file that includes a 3D glyph description associated with the at least one glyph and an interaction policy associated with the 3D glyph that determines when and how to animate the 3D glyph. The methods and devices may include rendering at least one 3D glyph based on the 3D glyph description and the interaction policy. The methods and devices may include transmitting at least one rendered 3D glyph.

Interactive and dynamically animated 3D fonts

In one example, a graphics rendering subsystem may selectively link a set of graphic effect modules, such as shaders, to increase processing efficiency. The graphics rendering subsystem may execute a comparison of a performance attribute of a first pre-compiled graphic effect module with a linking criteria. The graphics rendering subsystem may link the first pre-compiled graphic effect module and a second pre-compiled graphic effect module at render-time in response to the performance attribute satisfying the linking criteria.

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