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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2000
Michael C. Lewis, San Jose, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for providing a graphical image on a display is disclosed. The display includes a plurality of pixels. The data includes a plurality of fragments for the at least one object. The plurality of fragments intersects a portion of the plurality of pixels. The method and system include defining a plurality of macro-pixels. Each of the plurality of macro-pixels includes a second portion of the plurality of pixels. The second portion of the plurality of pixels are adjacent and include n pixels of the second portion of the plurality of pixels in a first direction and m pixels of the second portion of the plurality of pixels in a second direction. The method and system further include rendering the plurality of pixels by rendering a plurality of macro-pixels in raster order. In one aspect, each macro-pixel is rendered by rendering the second portion of the plurality of pixels pixel by pixel. Each of the second portion of the plurality of pixels is rendered by rendering the fragments intersecting the pixel. In another aspect, each macro-pixel is rendered by rendering macro-fragments intersecting the macro-pixel. Each macro-fragment intersecting a macro-pixel includes the fragments for a particular polygon that intersect the macro-pixel. The data is then output pixel by pixel. An output for each pixel includes a first portion of the plurality of fragments that intersect the pixel.