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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2023
Applicant:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 12/0842 (2016.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 1/60 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4881 (2013.01); G06F 9/4843 (2013.01); G06F 9/505 (2013.01); G06F 9/542 (2013.01); G06F 12/0842 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 1/60 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06F 2209/543 (2013.01); G06F 2212/60 (2013.01); G06F 2212/62 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided an apparatus configured to operate as a shader core, the shader core configured to perform a complex rendering process comprising a rendering process and a machine learning process, the shader core comprising: one or more tile buffers configured to store data locally to the shader core, wherein during the rendering process, the one or more tile buffers are configured to store rendered fragment data relating to a tile; and during the machine learning process, the one or more tile buffers are configured to store an input feature map, kernel weights or an output feature map relating to the machine learning process.