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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2013
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Christian Jean Rouet, San Francisco, CA (US);
Manan Maheshkumar Patel, San Jose, CA (US);
Shirish Gadre, Fremont, CA (US);
Daniel Paul Wilde, Cedar Park, TX (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for discarding pixel samples. The method includes the steps of completing shading operations for a pixel set including one or more pixels to generate per-sample shaded attributes according to a shader program executed by a processing pipeline. Discard information for the pixel set is evaluated and one or more per-sample shaded attributes for at least one pixel in the pixel set are discarded based on the evaluated discard information.