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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2002
Matthew Craighead, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Matthew Craighead, Santa Clara, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method and computer program product are provided for accelerating graphics processing utilizing a graphics application program interface. Initially, graphics data is processed in a graphics system with components including a central processing unit, a geometry processing module, and a pixel processing module. In use, the graphics application program interface accepts one or more first occlusion queries followed by a second occlusion query. The second occlusion query is at least partially processed by the graphics system before a final result of any one of the first occlusion queries is computed by the graphics system.