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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:
Feb. 01, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2001
Applicants:
Emmett M. Kilgariff, San Jose, CA (US);
James E. Margeson, Iii, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Dane Thomas Mrazek, Redwood City, CA (US);
Inventors:
Emmett M. Kilgariff, San Jose, CA (US);
James E. Margeson, III, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Dane Thomas Mrazek, Redwood City, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system, method and computer program product are provided for texture sampling in a graphics pipeline. Initially, texture information is retrieved using texture coordinates. Thereafter, the texture information is utilized to generate results. Next, the texture information and the results are utilized to generate further results. The foregoing operation may optionally be repeated, and the results outputted.