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Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2012
Applicants:

Andrew Gruber, Arlington, MA (US);

Ravi Somnath Jenkal, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Andrew Gruber, Arlington, MA (US);

Ravi Somnath Jenkal, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/00 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 11/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 11/40 (2013.01);
Abstract

In general, techniques are described for visibility-based state updates in graphical processing units (GPUs). A device that renders image data comprising a memory configured to store state data and a GPU may implement the techniques. The GPU may be configured to perform a multi-pass rendering process to render an image from the image data. The GPU determines visibility information for a plurality of objects defined by the image data during a first pass of the multi-pass rendering process. The visibility information indicates whether each of the plurality of objects will be visible in the image rendered from the image data during a second pass of the multi-pass rendering process. The GPU then retrieves the state data from the memory for use by the second pass of the multi-pass rendering process in rendering the plurality of objects of the image data based on the visibility information.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Gruber, Andrew. (2019). Visibility-based state updates in graphical processing units (U.S. Patent No. 10242481). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10242481

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