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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. 18, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 ;
Abstract
A computer graphics system having a hyperpipe architecture. Multiple rendering pipes are coupled together through a hyperpipe network scheme. Each of the rendering pipes are capable of rendering primitives for an entire frame or portions thereof. This enables multiple rendering pipes to process graphics data at the same time. A controller coordinates the multiple rendering pipes by sending requests to the appropriate rendering pipes to retrieve the pixel data generated by that particular pipe. It then merges the pixel data received from the various rendering pipes. A single driver then draws the three-dimensional image out for display.