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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2004
Applicant:
David Baldwin, Weybridge, GB;
Inventor:
David Baldwin, Weybridge, GB;
Assignee:
ZiiLabs Inc., Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/40 (2006.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01); G09G 5/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/40 (2013.01); G06T 17/20 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G09G 5/36 (2013.01);
Abstract
Conflicts between the database-building and traversal phases are resolved by allowing the database bin size to be different from the display bin size. The database bin size is some multiple of the bin display bin size, and when there are multiple display bins in a database bin, each database bin is traversed multiple times for display, and the rasterizer discards primitives outside of the current display bin. This allows a trade off between memory bandwidth consumed for database building and bandwidth consumed for display, particularly when the display traversal is done multiple of times.