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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2013
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eric B. Lum, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Alan Bolz, Austin, TX (US);
Rui Manuel Bastos, Porto Alegre, BR;
Andrei Khodakovsky, Belmont, CA (US);
Christian Johannes Amsinck, Cary, NC (US);
Bengt-Olaf Schneider, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product enable compression with programmable sample locations, where the compression is a function of the programmable sample locations. The method includes the steps of storing a first value specifying a programmed sample location within a pixel in a first sample pattern table that is associated with a first display surface and storing, in a memory, geometric surface parameters corresponding to a first attribute at the programmed sample location within a first pixel of the first display surface. A second value specifying the programmed sample location within the pixel in a second sample pattern table that is associated with a second display surface is also stored and the first attribute is reconstructed based on the geometric surface parameters and the first value.