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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2013
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ziyad S. Hakura, Gilroy, CA (US);
Cynthia Allison, Madison, AL (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention includes a method for tracking which cache tiles included in a plurality of cache tiles are intersected by a plurality of bounding boxes. The method includes receiving the plurality of bounding boxes, wherein each bounding box is associated with one or more graphics primitives being rendered to a render surface, and wherein the render surface is divided into the plurality of cache tiles. The method further includes, for each bounding box included in the plurality of bounding boxes, determining one or more cache tiles included in the plurality of cache tiles that are intersected by the bounding box, and storing a result in an array for each cache tile that is intersected by the bounding box. Finally, the method includes determining not to process a cache tile included in the plurality of cache tiles based on the results stored in the array.