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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2012
Yorihiko Wakayama, Osaka, JP;
Yorihiko Wakayama, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A processing device performs a geometry process as preprocessing for rendering a three-dimensional object on a display by modeling the three-dimensional object using a polygon mesh. The geometry process includes a vertex process that is performed for each of the vertices of the polygon mesh by a different one of a plurality of processors, and processed vertex data obtained by the vertex process is notified among the processors so that a polygon process can be performed in each of the processors. Because each processor can continuously perform the polygon process immediately after the vertex process, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of the unbalance of timing in performing the vertex process and the polygon process, thereby efficiently performing computation while minimizing the wasteful idle time of the processors.