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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2018
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Murat Balci, San Diego, CA (US);

Avinash Seetharamaiah, San Diego, CA (US);

Christopher Paul Frascati, San Diego, CA (US);

Jonnala Gadda Nagendra Kumar, San Diego, CA (US);

Colin Christopher Sharp, Cardiff, CA (US);

David Rigel Garcia Garcia, North York, CA;

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 1/60 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 1/60 (2013.01); G06T 11/40 (2013.01); G09G 5/00 (2013.01); G09G 2330/021 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device comprising a graphics processing unit (GPU) includes a memory and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to: receive a GPU command packet that indicates the GPU may select between a direct rendering mode or a binning rendering mode for a portion of a frame to be rendered by the GPU, determine whether to use the direct rendering mode or the binning rendering mode for the portion of the frame to be rendered by the GPU based on at least one of: information in the received command packet or a state of the GPU, and render the portion of the frame using the determined direct rendering mode or the binning rendering mode.


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