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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2017
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Bradley Albert Grantham, San Jose, CA (US);
Alexander Eugene Chalfin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A graphics processing apparatus performs an intermediate processing pass in which region lists that indicate geometry for respective regions of an intermediate projection surface are generated and stored. A subsequent processing pass is then performed in which a region of the intermediate projection surface is selected using a vector for a fragment, and geometry data for shading the fragment is obtained with reference to the region list that was stored for the selected region in the intermediate processing pass. The fragment can then be shaded using the obtained data for the geometry. The apparatus can provide a render output that is not limited by the resolution of an intermediate render output.