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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2023
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Xile Yang, Rickmansworth, GB;
Robert Brigg, Watford, GB;
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Abstract
Graphics processing renders primitives using a rendering space which is subdivided into a plurality of regions. A geometry processing phase determines, for each of a plurality of primitives which are present in a region, whether the primitive totally covers the region and stores data for the primitives which are determined to totally cover the region to indicate total coverage of the region. A rendering phase retrieves the stored data for the primitives which are present in the region, selectively processes primitives which are present in the region based on the retrieved data to determine which sample points within the region are covered by the primitives, wherein if the retrieved data includes data which indicates total coverage of the region for a particular primitive then the processing determining sample points is skipped; and determines rendered values at the sample points within the region based on the primitives which cover the respective sample points.