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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2015
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Siddhartha Baral, Erie, CO (US);
Avinash Seetharamaiah, San Diego, CA (US);
Christopher Paul Frascati, Oviedo, FL (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/80 (2006.01); G06T 1/60 (2006.01); G06T 15/80 (2011.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/60 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/80 (2013.01); G06T 2210/12 (2013.01); G06T 2210/52 (2013.01);
Abstract
This disclosure is directed to graphics data storage. A graphics processing unit (GPU) may determine pixels of a tile for which the GPU generated graphics data during the rendering of the tile. The GPU may store the generated graphics data in a local memory, and use the information of the pixels of the tile for which the GPU generated graphics data to limit the amount of graphics data stored in the local memory that the GPU is to write to an external memory.