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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:
Aug. 23, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2001
Applicants:
Mark S. Peercy, Cupertino, CA (US);
David Blythe, San Carlos, CA (US);
Bradley A. Grantham, Palo Alto, CA (US);
P. Jeffrey Ungar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mark S. Peercy, Cupertino, CA (US);
David Blythe, San Carlos, CA (US);
Bradley A. Grantham, Palo Alto, CA (US);
P. Jeffrey Ungar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T017/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
One aspect of the invention is a method for representing a scene (S). The method includes providing a higher-level appearance description of an appearance of geometry in a retained-mode representation (). The method also includes traversing the retained-mode representation () to provide a final representation () that can be rendered by a graphics pipeline ().