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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2007
Steven Todd Weybrew, Portland, OR (US);
David Ligon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ronald Gerard Langhi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Steven Todd Weybrew, Portland, OR (US);
David Ligon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ronald Gerard Langhi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for blending two images using vector table look up operations. In one aspect of the invention, a method to blend two images includes: loading a vector of keys into a vector register; converting the vector of keys into a first vector of blending factors for the first image and a second vector of blending factors for the second image using a plurality of look up tables; and computing an image attribute for the blended image using the blending factors.