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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:
Jul. 15, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
John Alan Gerth, Danbury, CT (US);
Shawn Anthony Hall, Pleasantville, NY (US);
William Louis Luken, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395122 ;
Abstract
The rasterization process is separated into two modes, a test mode and a normal mode, to eliminate shading calculations associated with all-hidden triangles, thereby providing improved efficiency over prior rasterization schemes.