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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:
Jun. 13, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 06, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Chris Malachowsky, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Curtis Priem, Fremont, CA (US);
David Kirk, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nvidia, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345509 ; 345422 ;
Abstract
A circuit for accelerating processing of pixel data being provided to a frame buffer comprising circuitry for determining that pixel values vary linearly over a scan line of a polygon to be rendered, linear interpolation circuitry for providing pixel values using a process of linear interpolation between accurately determined pixel values, and a circuit for collecting pixel values to be written to a frame buffer until a significant number of pixel values may be written together.