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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. 03, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Val G. Cook, Shingle Springs, CA (US);
Sam W. Jensen, Fair Oaks, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ; G06F 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ; G06F 1/700 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for image scaling is provided. A 3D pipeline comprises a command stream controller to enable a rectangle mode. The 3D pipeline including a windower to produce addresses for the rectangle defined by the vertices. A filter interpolates between neighboring points, based on relative location, to generate attributes for each pixel. A color calculator aligns output data and writes the output data to a destination surface.