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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. 17, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2001
Applicants:
Mark J. Kilgard, Austin, TX (US);
John Erik Lindholm, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert Steven Glanville, Cupertino, CA (US);
Michael I. Gold, Campbell, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mark J. Kilgard, Austin, TX (US);
John Erik Lindholm, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert Steven Glanville, Cupertino, CA (US);
Michael I. Gold, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T015/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for aliasing vertex attributes during vertex processing. Initially, a plurality of identifiers are each mapped to one of a plurality of parameters associated with vertex data. Thereafter, the vertex data is processed by calling the parameters utilizing a vertex program capable of referencing the parameters using the identifiers.