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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2014
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Stephen Morphet, St. Albans, GB;
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Abstract
An apparatus and a method for generating images from 3-D source data provide for making a display list for each tile of a set of tiles for an image to be rendered, each display list including identifying information for objects overlapping that tile and depth information for the object. A fetch unit configured to fetch parameter data for objects to be processed by an Image Synthesis Processor (ISP) is coupled to receive depth range information for a current tile, which is produced by the ISP, and to determined, based on the depth range for the current tile and the object-specific depth information from the display list for the current tile, whether the parameter data for the object is to be provided to the ISP for processing or not. The object-specific depth information can be stored with a pointer to parameter data for the object.