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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:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
David B. Kirk, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gopal Solanki, San Jose, CA (US);
Curtis Priem, Fremont, CA (US);
Walter Donovan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Joe L. Yeun, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 ; G06T 1/140 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 ; G06T 1/140 ;
Abstract
A graphics accelerator pipeline including a combiner stage capable of producing output values during each clock interval of the pipeline which map a plurality of textures to a single pixel or an individual texture to two pixels.