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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
May. 20, 2024
Applicant:
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Inventors:
Peter Malcolm Lacey, Hertfordshire, GB;
Simon Fenney, Hertfordshire, GB;
Tobias Hector, Hertfordshire, GB;
Ian King, Hertfordshire, GB;
Assignee:
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/50 (2011.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 15/80 (2011.01); G06T 17/10 (2006.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/503 (2013.01); G06F 9/382 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 15/80 (2013.01); G06T 17/10 (2013.01); G06T 17/20 (2013.01); G06T 2200/28 (2013.01);
Abstract
Implementations of post-tessellation blender hardware perform both domain shading and blending and whilst some vertices may not require blending, all vertices require domain shading. The blender hardware includes a cache and/or a content addressable memory and these data structures are used to reduce duplicate domain shading operations.