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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2006
Filed:
May. 23, 2003
Applicants:
Matthew N. Papakipos, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Walter E. Donovan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Harold Robert Feldman Zatz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Henry Packard Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
Inventors:
Matthew N. Papakipos, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Walter E. Donovan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Harold Robert Feldman Zatz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Henry Packard Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system, method and computer program product are provided for programmable pixel processing in a computer graphics pipeline. In one embodiment of the present invention, a computed arbitrary quantity is applied as texture address.