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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2014
Applicant:
Arm Ltd., Cambridge, GB;
Inventor:
David Robert Shreiner, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 17/20 (2013.01); G06F 15/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
A graphics processing pipeline comprises a tessellation stageoperable to tessellate a patch representing some or all of an object to be rendered, so as to generate positions for a set of vertices for one or more output primitives, and a primitive assembly stageoperable to assemble one or more output primitives for processing using the positions for a set of vertices generated by the tessellation stage and pre-defined information defining the connectivity between at least some of the vertices of the set of vertices.