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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:
Jun. 10, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2001
John Erik Lindholm, Cupertino, CA (US);
Simon Moy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kevin Dawallu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mingjian Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John Montrym, Los Altos, CA (US);
David B. Kirk, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paolo E. Sabella, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Matthew N. Papakipos, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Douglas A. Voorhies, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Nicholas J. Foskett, Mountain View, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A graphics pipeline system is provided with a transform module positioned on a single semiconductor platform for transforming graphics data. Also included is a lighting module positioned on the same single semiconductor platform as the transform module for lighting the graphics data. In use, various operations may be performed utilizing the single semiconductor platform such as rendering, fog operations, blending, coloring operations, etc.