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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2016
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/60 (2006.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/60 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 2210/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for provision of minimum or maximum and bitwise logic AND or logic OR based coarse stencil tests are described. In an embodiment, metadata (corresponding to a plurality of pixels) is stored in memory. One or more operations are performed on the metadata to generate a stencil result. The one or more operations comprise a bitwise intersection operation or a bitwise union operation and/or a minimum operation or maximum operation. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.