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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2022
Applicant:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Inventor:
Toni Viki Brkic, Lund, SE;
Assignee:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 1/60 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 1/60 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of operating a tile-based graphics processor that executes a graphics processing pipeline is disclosed. When there are no more primitives left to be provided for processing to the pipeline for a rendering tile, it is determined whether any remaining processing steps for the rendering tile can be omitted, e.g. because they will not affect a buffer that will be output when the rendering tile is complete. When it is determined that a processing step can be omitted, that processing step is omitted.