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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2002
Mikhail M. Lyapunov, Woodinville, WA (US);
Mikhail V. Leonov, Kirkland, WA (US);
Claude Betrisey, Redmond, WA (US);
David Colin Wilson Brown, Redmond, WA (US);
Mohammed Gaber El-gammal, Woodinville, WA (US);
Mikhail M. Lyapunov, Woodinville, WA (US);
Mikhail V. Leonov, Kirkland, WA (US);
Claude Betrisey, Redmond, WA (US);
David Colin Wilson Brown, Redmond, WA (US);
Mohammed Gaber El-Gammal, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Hardware acceleration of the rending and animation of characters that treat each pixel sub-component as a distinct luminance intensity source. A bit-map representation of the sub-component-oriented character is generated by using a single image sample to generate each pixel sub-component. This may be accomplished by, for example overscaling a representation of the character, placing the overscaled representation of the character on grid, and then assigning a luminance and possibly a transparency value to each grid position based on the property of the overscaled character at the grid position. The, the character is rendered by interfacing with a hardware graphic unit that perform the final rendering and animation of the character.