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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2011

Filed:

May. 30, 2007
Applicants:

Anders M. Kugler, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Alexander L. Minkin, Los Altos, CA (US);

William P. Newhall, Jr., San Francisco, CA (US);

Christopher J. Migdal, Cupertino, CA (US);

Pemith R. Fernando, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Lup-yen Peter Young, San Jose, CA (US);

Mehmet Cem Cebenoyan, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Yury Y. Uralsky, Moscow, RU;

Inventors:

Anders M. Kugler, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Alexander L. Minkin, Los Altos, CA (US);

William P. Newhall, Jr., San Francisco, CA (US);

Christopher J. Migdal, Cupertino, CA (US);

Pemith R. Fernando, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Lup-Yen Peter Young, San Jose, CA (US);

Mehmet Cem Cebenoyan, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Yury Y. Uralsky, Moscow, RU;

Assignee:

NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G06T 11/40 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G09G 5/02 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and system for performing a texture operation with user-specified offset positions are disclosed. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of deriving a first destined texel position based on an original sample position associated with a pixel projected in a texture map and a first offset position specified by a user and fetching texel attributes at the first destined texel position for the texture operation.


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