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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2016
Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuji Iwasaki, Tokyo, JP;
SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A first GPU of a rendering apparatus, after rendering by a second GPU that renders a second depth range that is closer to the viewpoint than a first depth range that the first GPU renders is performed, receives the image rendered by the second GPU and the identifying information that identifies the pixels for which rendering objects are rendered in the image. After the reception, the first GPU, when rendering a rendering object included in the first depth range in accordance with the viewpoint, performs rendering of pixels, from the image rendered by the second GPU, that are not identified by the identifying information, and does not perform rendering of pixels identified by the identifying information.