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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:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Douglas Sim Dietrich, Jr., Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for antialiasing during rendering in a graphics pipeline. Initially, a primitive of vertex data is received in a graphics pipeline. Next, a super-sampling operation is performed on the primitive of vertex data ufilizing the graphics pipeline. Further, a multi-sampling operation is performed on the primitive of vertex data utilizing the graphics pipeline.