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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.
Gerth, John. (1997). Efficient two-pass rasterization scheme utilizing visibility information (U.S. Patent No. 5649078). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5649078
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