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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2010
David Kirk Mcallister, Holladay, UT (US);
Narayan Kulshrestha, Fremont, CA (US);
Steven E. Molnar, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
David Kirk McAllister, Holladay, UT (US);
Narayan Kulshrestha, Fremont, CA (US);
Steven E. Molnar, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are described for compressing image data using a combination of compression methods. Compression method combinations are provided to compress image data of a particular frame buffer format and antialiasing mode. Each method in the compression method combination is tried in turn to compress the image data in a tile. The best method that succeeded in compressing the image data is encoded in the compression bit state associated with the tile. Together, the compression bits, the compression method combination, and the frame buffer format provide sufficient information to decompress a tile.