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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:
Sep. 04, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
David Robert Baldwin, Weybridge, GB;
Andrew Bigos, Staines, GB;
Osman Kent, Thames Ditton, GB;
Nicholas J. N. Murphy, The Sands, GB;
Assignee:
3Dlabs Inc. Ltd., , BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/140 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/140 ;
Abstract
A system and method for computer graphics generation which uses a local library of graphics textures. When an application, run either locally or over a communications system, requires texture-mapped graphics, texture data is retrieved from the local library instead of transmitted to the system.