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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2023
Applicant:
Intel Coporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Hugues Labbe, Folsom, CA (US);
Tomer Bar-On, Petah Tikva, IL;
Kai Xiao, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ankur N. Shah, Folsom, CA (US);
John G. Gierach, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 15/80 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/80 (2013.01); G06T 2200/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a mask buffer to store a mask, a shader communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a first shader pass, and a resolver communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a resolve pass. The resolver may be configured to exclude a sample location not covered by the mask in the resolve pass. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.