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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2011
Brendan J. Clark, Seattle, WA (US);
Ashraf Michail, Redmond, WA (US);
Bede Jordan, Seattle, WA (US);
George Xin Gao, Redmond, WA (US);
Brendan J. Clark, Seattle, WA (US);
Ashraf Michail, Redmond, WA (US);
Bede Jordan, Seattle, WA (US);
George Xin Gao, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Performing real-time atlasing of graphics data and creation and maintenance of texture atlases for applications having dynamic graphics content. Embodiments include allocating a texture atlas configured to store textural elements for use in rendering graphical elements, and providing a graphics processing unit (GPU) access to the texture atlas. During subsequent execution of an application, when a graphical element of the application is to be rendered by the GPU, a block of space can be allocated within the texture atlas and a textural element corresponding to the graphical element can be stored within the allocated block. The GPU therefore has access to the textural element when rendering the graphical element.