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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:
Jun. 21, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2007
Applicants:
Jim Xu, San Jose, CA (US);
John Brothers, Calistoga, CA (US);
Sibyl Shao, Shanghai, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Via Technologies, Inc., Taipei, TW;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/40 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods for graphics data management are described. One embodiment includes a graphics processing system comprising a texture management unit configured to organize texture map data according to a slice major format, wherein the texture map data spans at least one mip level. Furthermore, the graphics processing system comprises a texture cache, wherein the texture cache is coupled to the texture management unit and configured to receive the organized texture map data from the texture management unit.