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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2011
Jeffrey R. Bloomfield, Bothell, WA (US);
Stephen P. Proteau, Bothell, WA (US);
Michael Vincent Onepro, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey R. Bloomfield, Bothell, WA (US);
Stephen P. Proteau, Bothell, WA (US);
Michael Vincent Onepro, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods are provided for reordering operations in execution of an effect graph by graphics processing unit. Memory availability is evaluated for storing images rendered using the effect graph. Memory is allocated for multiple parallel intermediate textures that store images. Operations that write to these textures are executed. It is then determined that there is not sufficient memory to perform additional parallel operations. The memory currently allocated is flushed, and memory for an upper-level texture is allocated. The operations that write pixels to the upper-level texture are executed.