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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2004
Filed:
May. 12, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark S. Peercy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Thomas M. Olano, San Francisco, CA (US);
John M. Airey, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
Abstract
One aspect of the invention is a method for implementing a graphics control construct. The method includes the step of assigning by a graphics system interface ( ) a value to at least one bit in a stencil buffer (S) in response to a first condition of a first conditional clause in an application program ( ). The method also includes the steps of selecting at least a first portion of image data in response to the value, and processing the selected first portion of image data in a frame buffer ( ) of a graphics pipeline ( ).