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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:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2010
Applicants:
Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jesse David Hall, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jesse David Hall, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for providing state information to one or more shader engines within a processing pipeline. State information received from an application accessing the processing pipeline is stored in constant buffer memory accessible to each of the shader engines. The shader engines can then retrieve the state information during execution.