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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2015
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Seunghun Jin, Suwon-si, KR;
Jeongae Park, Seoul, KR;
Woong Seo, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Soojung Ryu, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Yeongon Cho, Hwaseong-si, KR;
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Abstract
A method and corresponding apparatus are configured to generate a mipmap are configured to allocate a mipmap status register of a mipmap level generated with respect to a texture, receive a request for the texture, and calculate a mipmap level with respect to the texture. The method and corresponding apparatus are also configured to determine whether a mipmap of the calculated mipmap level exists using the mipmap status register and outputting a result indicative thereof, and determine whether to generate the mipmap of the mipmap level based on the result.