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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:
May. 22, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gary S. Watkins, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Assignee:
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/100 ; G06F 1/580 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/100 ; G06F 1/580 ;
Abstract
A geometric processor provides object primitives, as triangles, in graphic display image space to support a dynamic display. The image space is defined by pixels, in turn specified in arrays as spans. In a multi-level scanning operation, primitives are scanned at a first level to locate lapped spans that are lapped by primitives. At a second level, spans are scanned to process pixels that are lapped by primitives. An alternative embodiment discloses three-level scanning in association with parallel pixel processing. Concurrent texturing structure operates along with cache memories.