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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1994
David A Dyches, Spring, TX (US);
Brian H Danielson, Tomball, TX (US);
Craig A Estepp, Houston, TX (US);
Danley M Carlson, Spring, TX (US);
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An accelerated video controller operates in conjunction with a video driver to accelerate certain video operations. If the operating environment requests a polygon operation, the driver (or software on the video controller) will determine whether the specified polygon is simple convex. The determination of whether a convex polygon is simple convex is accomplished by tracing between the vertices of the polygon and comparing the changes in direction relative to a predetermine coordinate axis to a threshold number. If the polygon is simple convex, certain operations can be performed using simpler code or hardware accelerated features. For a polygon fill, if the polygon is simple convex, the edges of the polygon are inspected to determine whether the polygon can be decomposed into a rectangle and a smaller polygon. If so, the video controllers bit engine will be used to perform the fill of the rectangle at high speed, thus reducing the time of the operation.