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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 25, 2015
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Xiaocheng Marc Mao, Shanghai, CN;
Assignee:
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 1/60 (2006.01); G06T 15/50 (2011.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/60 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/503 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments provide for a graphics processing apparatus comprising a graphics processing engine configured for tiled memory access. In one embodiment the graphics processing engine is configured to render pixel data to a tile of memory and write to metadata associated with the tile of memory that indicates a data characteristic of the pixel data. The data characteristic of the pixel data includes whether the pixel data is transparent or whether the pixel data is an update of data from a previous frame.