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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:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Emmett Kilgariff, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Philip Brown, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Assignee:
Silicon Engineering, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345418 ;
Abstract
A scalable, three-dimensional (3D) graphics subsystem. The graphics subsystem includes a plurality of graphics modules each including a rendering module and a dedicated memory. In one embodiment, the rendering modules of the graphics modules are coupled together, possibly through a routing device, such that each rendering module views the memory space, formed by all dedicated memory, as one continuous shared memory.