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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
May. 29, 2023
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Simon Fenney, St. Albans, GB;
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Abstract
A method and a compression unit are provided for compressing, into a block of compressed data, a block of sub-primitive presence indications for use in a rendering system. The block of sub-primitive presence indications comprises a plurality of sub-blocks of sub-primitive presence indications. A plurality of candidates for combinations of presence indications are identified. For each of the sub-blocks in the block of sub-primitive presence indications: one of the candidates to be used to represent the sub-block is selected, and an index to indicate the selected candidate is stored in the block of compressed data.