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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2013
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Sean Tristram Ellis, Farnham, GB;
Jorn Nystad, Trondheim, NO;
Andreas Engh-Halstvedt, Trondheim, NO;
ARM LIMITED, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
When processing a set of tiles to generate an output in a tile based graphics processing pipeline, the pipeline, for one or more tiles of the set of tiles, renders one or more render targets containing data to be used in a processing operation (), and stores the render targets in the tile buffer (). It also stores some but not all of the sampling position values for a render target or targets for use when processing an adjacent tile of the set of tiles (). It then performs a processing operation for the tile using the stored render target or targets () and one or more stored sampling position values from another, adjacent tile of the set of tiles (), to generate an output for the tile ().