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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2012
Applicant:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey A. Bolz, Austin, TX (US);
Mark J. Kilgard, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/40 (2006.01); G06T 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/40 (2013.01); G06T 11/203 (2013.01);
Abstract
A technique for efficiently rendering path images tessellates path contours into triangle tans comprising a set of representative triangles. Topology of the set of representative triangles is then optimized for greater rasterization efficiency by applying a flip operator to selected triangle pairs within the set of representative triangles. The optimized triangle pairs are then rendered using a path rendering technique, such as stencil and cover.