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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2012
Applicants:
Cass W. Everitt, Austin, TX (US);
Henry P. Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);
Inventors:
Cass W. Everitt, Austin, TX (US);
Henry P. Moreton, Woodside, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 1/60 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 15/04 (2011.01); G06F 12/1027 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06F 12/1027 (2013.01); G06T 1/60 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 15/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A graphics processing subsystem and a method of shading are provided. In one embodiment, the subsystem includes: (1) a memory configured to contain a texel data structure according to which multiple primitive texels corresponding to a particular composite texel are contained in a single page of the memory and (2) a graphics processing unit configured to communicate with the memory via a data bus and execute a shader to fetch the multiple primitive texels contained in the single page to create the particular composite texel.