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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alexander Lev Minkin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Henry Packard Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);
Yury Uralsky, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eric Brian Lum, San Jose, CA (US);
Dale L. Kirkland, Madison, AL (US);
Steven James Heinrich, Madison, AL (US);
Rui Manuel Bastos, Porto Alegre, BR;
Emmett M. Kilgariff, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey Alan Bolz, Austin, TX (US);
Tyson Bergland, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrick R. Brown, Wake Forest, NC (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for multi-sample processing. The multi-sample pixel data is received and is analyzed to identify subsets of samples of a multi-sample pixel that have equal data, such that data for one sample in a subset represents multi-sample pixel data for all samples in the subset. An encoding state is generated that indicates which samples of the multi-sample pixel are included in each one of the subsets.