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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:
May. 26, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345425 ;
Abstract
A computer graphics apparatus connects a texture coordinate generator with fragment generators via a command bus. The generator is connected to a texture data bus through a texture memory cluster which comprises an address generator connected to a texture coordinate bus, a filter, and eight memories. In addition, the generator is connected to the texture data bus through a plurality of texture memory clusters. The texture data bus is connected to a plurality of drawing processors to which a plurality of frame memories are connected in correspondence. This configuration performs texture mapping through effective utilization of the texture memory clusters.