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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 1998
Filed:
Jun. 08, 1995
Louise A Koss, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Mary Louise Nash, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A graphics processing circuit for use in a graphics accelerator that includes a clipping processor, with a vertex input data path operatively connected to a vertex data input of the clipping processor. A clipping preprocessor has a vertex data input operatively connected to the vertex input data path and a control output operatively connected to a control input of the clipping processor. The clipping preprocessor is constructed and arranged to perform an evaluation of a relationship between primitive vertex data from the vertex input data path and a clip region and to provide a signal on the control output based on this evaluation.