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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2017
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Ivan Nevraev, Redmond, WA (US);
Martin J. I. Fuller, Warwick, GB;
Mark S. Grossman, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/80 (2011.01); G11B 27/34 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 11/40 (2006.01); G06T 15/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/80 (2013.01); G06T 11/40 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 15/60 (2013.01); G11B 27/34 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and devices for performing variable rate shading are described. Invocation information and lineage information for each pixel of a plurality of pixels of a primitive are stored in an invocation buffer and a lineage buffer of a graphics processing unit. One or more deferred shading or post-processing operations are performed on the image based at least in part on the invocation information and the lineage information associated with each pixel of the plurality of pixels.