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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2012
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Andreas Engh-halstvedt, Trondheim, NO;
Jorn Nystad, Trondheim, NO;
Frode Heggelund, Trondheim, NO;
Ronny Pedersen, Trondheim, NO;
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
When carrying out a second, higher level of anti-aliasing such as 8×MSAA, in a graphics processing pipelineconfigured to 'natively' support a first level of anti-aliasing, such as 4×MSAA, the rasterization stage, early Z (depth) and stencil test stage, late Z (depth) and stencil test stage, blending stage, and downsampling and writeback (multisample resolve) stageof the graphics processing pipelineprocess each graphics fragment or pixel that they receive for processing in plural processing passes, each such processing pass processing a sub-set of the sampling points that the fragment represents, but the fragment shaderis configured to process each graphics fragment in a processing pass that processes all the sampling points that the fragment represents in parallel, so as to ensure compliance with the desired higher level of multisampled anti-aliasing.