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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2014
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Subramaniam Maiyuran, Gold River, CA (US);
Thomas A. Piazza, New York, NY (US);
Jorge F. Garcia Pabon, Folsom, CA (US);
Shubh B. Shah, Folsom, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method are described for a high throughput rasterizer. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: block selection logic to select a plurality of pixel blocks associated with edges of a primitive, the plurality of pixel blocks selected based on the pixel blocks having samples which are both inside and outside of the primitive; and edge determination logic to analyze samples of the plurality of pixel blocks selected by the block selection logic and responsively generate data identifying each edge of the primitive; and final mask determination logic to combine the data identifying each edge and generate a final mask representing the primitive.