The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2018
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yury Uralsky, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Henry Packard Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);
Eric Brian Lum, Fremont, CA (US);
Jonathan J. Dunaisky, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Steven James Heinrich, Madison, AL (US);
Stefano Pescador, Dale, TX (US);
Shirish Gadre, Fremont, CA (US);
Michael Alan Fetterman, Boxborough, MA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for reporting texture footprint information. A texture footprint identifies the portion of a texture that will be utilized in rendering a pixel in a scene. The disclosed methods and apparatuses advantageously improve system efficiency in decoupled shading systems by first identifying which texels in a given texture map are needed for subsequently rendering a scene. Therefore, the number of texels that are generated and stored may be reduced to include the identified texels. Texels that are not identified need not be rendered and/or stored.