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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:
Sep. 15, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2006
Applicants:
Oliver A. Heim, Cameron Park, CA (US);
Stephen Junkins, Bend, OR (US);
Inventors:
Oliver A. Heim, Cameron Park, CA (US);
Stephen Junkins, Bend, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Apparatus, systems and methods for optimized frustum clipping via cached clip vertices are disclosed. For example, a method is disclosed, the method including generating a clip vertex for a leading edge of a triangle of a triangle strip or fan, indicating that the leading edge is shared with an adjacent triangle of the triangle strip or fan, and in response to the indication, using the clip vertex as a clip vertex of a trailing edge of the adjacent triangle in the triangle strip or fan. Other implementations are disclosed.