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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:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
May. 18, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Nandini Ramani, Saratoga, CA (US);
Michael A. Wasserman, Redwood City, CA (US);
Michael G. Lavelle, Saratoga, CA (US);
Mark E. Pascual, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin Tang, Union City, CA (US);
Daniel M. Chao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/500 ;
Abstract
A graphics system may be configured to render anti-aliased dots in terms of samples and to generate pixels by filtering the samples. The pixels are supplied to one or more display devices. The means used to generate the samples may perform the computation of radial distance at positions on a grid in a rendering coordinate space, and interpolate estimates for the radial distances of samples around the dot as needed based on the radii at the grid positions.