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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:
Jun. 17, 2008
Filed:
May. 14, 2004
Applicants:
Edward A. Hutchins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian K. Angell, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Edward A. Hutchins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian K. Angell, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/60 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A configurable graphics pipeline has more than one possible process flow of pixel packets through elements of the graphics pipeline. In one embodiment, a data packet triggers an element of the graphics pipeline to discover an identifier.