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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2012
Filed:
May. 12, 2006
Applicants:
Philip Browning Johnson, Campbell, CA (US);
Brian M. Kelleher, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Franck R. Diard, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Philip Browning Johnson, Campbell, CA (US);
Brian M. Kelleher, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Franck R. Diard, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Multiprocessor graphics systems support distributed antialiasing. In one embodiment, two (or more) graphics processors each render a version of the same image, with a difference in the sampling location (or locations) used for each pixel. A display head combines corresponding pixels generated by different graphics processors to produce an antialiased image. This distributed antialiasing technique can be scaled to any number of graphics processors.