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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:
Aug. 29, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Nicholas J Murphy, Guildford, GB;
Assignee:
3Dlabs Inc. Ltd., , GB;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345430 ; 345509 ; 345521 ; 345515 ;
Abstract
A rendering processor with texture processing capability, in which textures are retrieved from local storage as n.times.n patches. By retrieving a multi-pixel patch on each memory read, the frequency of memory accesses and page breaks in particular are reduced, resulting in a lower memory access time overhead.