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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2008
Yan LU, Beijing, CN;
John Tardif, Sammamish, WA (US);
Matt Bronder, Bellevue, WA (US);
Huifeng Shen, Beijing, CN;
Feng Wu, Beijing, CN;
Shipeng LI, Redmond, WA (US);
Yan Lu, Beijing, CN;
John Tardif, Sammamish, WA (US);
Matt Bronder, Bellevue, WA (US);
Huifeng Shen, Beijing, CN;
Feng Wu, Beijing, CN;
Shipeng Li, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Various technologies for a layered texture compression architecture. In one implementation, the layered texture compression architecture may include a texture consumption pipeline. The texture compression pipeline may include a processor, memory devices, and textures compressed at varying ratios of compression. The textures within the pipeline may be compressed at ratios in accordance with characteristics of the devices in the pipeline that contains and processes the textures.