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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2023
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Daren Croxford, Swaffham Prior, GB;
Roberto Lopez Mendez, Cambridge, GB;
Mina Ivanova Dimova, Great Shelford, GB;
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method of operating a graphics processor to process a frame formed of a plurality of regions, the graphics processor comprising at least one execution unit with an associated storage element, the at least one execution unit is operable to process the plurality of regions according to a shading rate for each region to generate a processing output to the associated storage element, the method comprising: obtaining the shading rate for one or more of the plurality of regions; determining a respective processing output size for each of the one or more regions based on the shading rate for the one or more regions; forming the one or more regions into at least one variable processing unit based on the respective processing output size for each of the one or more regions and a capacity of the associated storage element; and assigning the at least one variable processing unit as a processing task to the at least one execution unit.
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