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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2002
Jin Satoh, Tokyo, JP;
Jin Satoh, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus and method which can achieve a reduction in size of the crossbar circuit and achieve a higher speed of processing, which perform DDA processing (ST), then read out texture data from a memory (ST), perform sub-word reallocation processing (ST), then perform texture-filtering (ST), then globally distribute data by the crossbar circuitto a first operation processing element of each processing module (ST), then perform processing at the pixel level, specifically use the texture data after filtering and the various types of data after rasterization to perform operations by pixel units and draw the pixel data passing the various types of tests in the processing at the pixel level to a frame buffer on a memory module (ST).