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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2012
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rui Bastos, Porto Alegre, BR;
Mark J. Kilgard, Austin, TX (US);
William Craig McKnight, Harvest, AL (US);
Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Pierre Souillot, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dale L. Kirkland, Madison, AL (US);
Christian Amsinck, Durham, NC (US);
Joseph Detmer, Durham, NC (US);
Christian Rouet, San Francisco, CA (US);
Don Bittel, San Jose, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique for efficiently rendering content reduces each complex blend mode to a series of basic blend operations. The series of basic blend operations are executed within a recirculating pipeline until a final blended value is computed. The recirculating pipeline is positioned within a color raster operations unit of a graphics processing unit for efficient access to image buffer data.