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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2007
Applicant:
Martin-karl Lefrancois, Berlin, DE;
Inventor:
Martin-Karl LeFrancois, Berlin, DE;
Assignee:
Mental Images GmbH, Berlin, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/02 (2006.01); G06T 15/50 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/503 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems, apparatus, computer software code products and methods for enabling computer graphics systems to accurately render transparency comprise configuring a shader element of the computer graphics system to first extract all layers of an image representation and obtain depth information therefrom, and then rendering all layers back-to-front with shading enabled, such that information obtained from a previously processed layer is available for processing of a current layer.