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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2022
Applicant:
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Inventors:
Rostam King, Hertfordshire, GB;
William Thomas, Hertfordshire, GB;
Assignee:
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/04 (2011.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 15/10 (2011.01); G06T 15/20 (2011.01); G06T 15/80 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 15/04 (2013.01); G06T 15/10 (2013.01); G06T 15/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/80 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of improving texture fetching by a texturing/shading unit in a GPU pipeline by performing efficient convolution operations, includes receiving a shader and determining whether the shader is a kernel shader. In response to determining that the shader is a kernel shader, the shader is modified to perform a collective fetch of all texels used in convolution operations for a group of output pixels instead of performing independent fetches of texels for each output pixel in the group of output pixels.