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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2011
Gerhard Schneider, Seattle, WA (US);
Bede Jordan, Seattle, WA (US);
Ashraf Michail, Redmond, WA (US);
Brendan J. Clark, Seattle, WA (US);
Pawel Wiktor Olszta, Issaquah, WA (US);
Gerhard Schneider, Seattle, WA (US);
Bede Jordan, Seattle, WA (US);
Ashraf Michail, Redmond, WA (US);
Brendan J. Clark, Seattle, WA (US);
Pawel Wiktor Olszta, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Performing primitive composition within a user interface thread, enhancing the ability to scale a user interface framework to computing devices having limited resources. In one or more embodiments, a user interface thread walks a user interface hierarchy that describes elements of a program's user interface and directly generates static Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) data structures representing at least a portion of the user interface hierarchy. The user interface thread passes the static GPU data structures to a composition thread, which uses these static GPU data structures during generation of a plurality of video frames. This includes the composition thread, based on the static GPU data structures, sending GPU data and GPU commands for the plurality of video frames to a GPU for rendering.