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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2023
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Per Kristian Kjøll, Trondheim, NO;
Ahmed Mohamad Abdelmonim Salman, Cambridge, GB;
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A sequence of primitives to be rendered is processed using a first, pre-pass operation to determine 'visibility' information for the sequence of primitives, that is then used in a second, main pass operation in which fragments for primitives that were processed during the first, pre-pass operation are subjected to a visibility test that uses the visibility information determined during the first, pre-pass operation, to determine whether a fragment for a primitive should be processed further in the second, main pass operation. When a fragment is, in the second, main pass operation, subjected to and passes a particular form of visibility test so as to be determined as needing to be processed further, a processing order dependency that would be indicated for the fragment in a record indicative of processing order dependencies for a sub-region of the render output to which the fragment relates is not enforced.
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