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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
May. 02, 2011
Applicant:
Gabor Nagy, San Mateo, CA (US);
Inventor:
Gabor Nagy, San Mateo, CA (US);
Assignee:
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/04 (2011.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/04 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 2200/28 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices for rendering computer graphics using texture maps are disclosed. Multiple texture maps with disparate data types, such as a mix of integer data types for RGB colors and floating point data types for XYZ normal vector components, are passed as one texture map set to a graphics processing unit (GPU). Filter parameters and other interpolation parameters are re-used between the disparate texture maps. A user can specify a number of integer and floating point-based channels for processing at one time by the GPU, thereby customizing a texture set structure.