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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
May. 27, 2016
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Larry Seiler, Boylston, MA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/40 (2011.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/405 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 2200/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
Described herein are technologies related to facilitate high precision and resolution of a depth (Z) buffer storage during a process of rendering 3D scenes. More particularly, during an interpolation, encoding, and/or storing processes in a graphic pipeline for rendering the 3D scenes, a particular depth (Z) plane representation is configured to support an un-normalized depth and a floating point depth formats that may be used to store Z values to the Z buffer storage.