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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:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
May. 18, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Steven M. Kurihara, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ewa M. Kubalska, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 1/140 ; G09G 5/36 ; G06T 1/60 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 1/140 ; G09G 5/36 ; G06T 1/60 ;
Abstract
A merge unit for the merging of tiles or arrays of pixels or samples, and suitable for use in a high performance graphics system is described. The unit may improve the utilization of memory bandwidth by combining non-intersecting tiles of pixels, and hence potentially reducing the number of storage operations to the memory.