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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2008
Miles Mark Cohen, Seattle, WA (US);
Anthony John Rolls Hodsdon, Seattle, WA (US);
Louri Vladimirovitch Tarassov, Bellevue, WA (US);
Niklas Erik Borson, Langley, WA (US);
Mark Andrew Lawrence, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Mikhail Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Woodinville, WA (US);
Benjamin C. Constable, Redmond, WA (US);
Christopher Nathaniel Raubacher, Redmond, WA (US);
Miles Mark Cohen, Seattle, WA (US);
Anthony John Rolls Hodsdon, Seattle, WA (US);
Louri Vladimirovitch Tarassov, Bellevue, WA (US);
Niklas Erik Borson, Langley, WA (US);
Mark Andrew Lawrence, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Mikhail Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Woodinville, WA (US);
Benjamin C. Constable, Redmond, WA (US);
Christopher Nathaniel Raubacher, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system, a method and computer-readable media for rendering text with a graphics processing unit (GPU). The system, method, and media includes a GPU that may be configured to receive a plurality of compressed glyph bitmap and create a plurality of glyph textures from the bitmap. The GPU may be further configured to pack a plurality of rows of data from a glyph bitmap into a single row of a glyph texture. The GPU may be also be configured to merge the plurality of glyph textures into a merged texture to identify overlapping rows of color. Additionally, the GPU maybe configured to filter the merged texture to create a grayscale texture containing a plurality of merged glyphs and rendering the grayscale texture to display the plurality of merged glyphs.