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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2012
Applicant:
Edward A. Hutchins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Edward A. Hutchins, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a reconfigurable 3D graphics processor includes a pipeline configuration manager, a rasterizer, and a memory coupled to the triangle rasterizer. The pipeline configuration manager is capable of configuring the graphics processor to operate in a direct rasterizing mode or a tiling mode to process a sequence of drawing commands received from a processing unit.