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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2002
John Erik Lindholm, Cupertino, CA (US);
Simon Moy, Mountain View, CA (US);
David B. Kirk, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paolo E. Sabella, Pleasanton, CA (US);
John Erik Lindholm, Cupertino, CA (US);
Simon Moy, Mountain View, CA (US);
David B. Kirk, San Francisco, CA (US);
Paolo E. Sabella, Pleasanton, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided for a hardware implementation of a blending technique during graphics processing in a graphics pipeline. During processing in the pipeline, a plurality of matrices and a plurality of weight values are received. Also received is vertex data to be processed. A sum of a plurality of products may then be calculated by the multiplication of the vertex data, one of the matrices, and at least one of the weights.