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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:
Nov. 24, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2004
Applicants:
Rui M. Bastos, Porto Alegre, BR;
Christian Rouet, San Rafael, CA (US);
Emmett M. Kilgariff, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Rui M. Bastos, Porto Alegre, BR;
Christian Rouet, San Rafael, CA (US);
Emmett M. Kilgariff, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G09G 5/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus of operating a shader having multiple texture or shader processing stations. That method includes feeding the output of a texture or shader processing station directly into the input of another texture or shader processing station. Further, only a subset of the processing stations has access to a shader register file.