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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:
Dec. 13, 2005
Filed:
May. 05, 2003
Applicants:
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
Steven E. Molnar, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Harold Robert Feldman Zatz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
Steven E. Molnar, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Harold Robert Feldman Zatz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T015/80 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method are provided for generating multiple output packets in a single processing pass of a shader in a hardware graphics pipeline. Initially, graphics data is received, after which it is processed utilizing the shader of the hardware graphics pipeline to generate a plurality of output packets. The plurality of output packets is outputted from the shader of the hardware graphics pipeline in the single processing pass.