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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:
Oct. 02, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shaun Ho, Cupertino, CA (US);
Douglas H. Rogers, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Paolo Sabella, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/140 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/140 ;
Abstract
A graphics accelerator pipeline including a rasterizer stage, a texture stage, and a combiner stage capable of producing realistic output images by mapping irregular textures to surfaces.