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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2007
Garry W. Amann, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen Lew, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanford S. Lum, San Jose, CA (US);
Garry W. Amann, Austin, TX (US);
Stephen Lew, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sanford S. Lum, San Jose, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Video conversion using a 3D graphics pipeline of a graphical processing unit (GPU) is disclosed. A plurality of video data formatted in a first video format is accessed from a memory unit. Moreover, the plurality of video data is converted from the first video format to a second video format using a 3D graphics pipeline of the GPU. The plurality of video data formatted in the second video format is sent to the memory unit. The 3D graphics pipeline applies a filtering technique. In an embodiment, the filtering technique is an interpolation technique.