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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2002
Jeffrey J. Walls, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Don B. Hoffman, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Per E Gullberg, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Kevin T. Lefebvre, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A system rendering graphical data from a graphics application utilizes a plurality of frame buffers, a plurality of graphics pipelines, and logic. Each of the graphics pipelines is configured to render graphical data to a different one of the frame buffers. The logic is configured to determine a mode of operation of the graphics application and to prevent, based on the mode of operation of the graphics application, at least one of the graphics pipelines from rendering the graphical data from the graphics application.