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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2013
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Angus M. Taggart, San Diego, CA (US);
Eric J. Graves, Radnor, PA (US);
Jean-Francois N. Dumais, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
An operating system that includes an image processing framework as well as a job management layer is provided. The image processing framework is for performing image processing operations and the job management layer is for assigning the image processing operations to multiple concurrent computing resources. The computing resources include several processing units and one or more direct memory access (DMA) channels for concurrently rendering image data and transferring image data between the processing units.