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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2006
Applicant:
Bruce Holmer, Belmont, CA (US);
Inventor:
Bruce Holmer, Belmont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06E 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A high quality and performance 3D graphics architecture suitable for portable handheld devices is provided. The 3D graphics architecture incorporates a module to classify polygons by size and other characteristics. In general, small and well-behaved triangles can be processed using 'lower-precision' units with power efficient circuitry without any quality and performance sacrifice (e.g., realism, resolution, etc.). By classifying the primitives and selecting the more power-efficient processing unit to process the primitive, power consumption can be reduced without quality and performance sacrifice.