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Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999

Filed:

Sep. 17, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Bryan G Prouty, Wellington, CO (US);

Ronald D Larson, Ft. Collins, CO (US);

Charles R Dowdell, Nashua, NH (US);

Assignee:

Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345441 ;
Abstract

A method and apparatus is provided for interleaving frame buffer controllers in two dimensions. Each frame buffer controller includes an edge stepper, a subspan stepper and a span stepper. The subspan stepper separates each span line into a plurality of parts. Each frame buffer controller provides pixel data for certain parts of the span line. The parts are defined by a start value, a stop value and a starting color value.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Prouty, Bryan. (1999). System and method for triangle rasterization with frame buffers (U.S. Patent No. 5982384). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5982384

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