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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
May. 31, 2013
Applicant:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Edward Charles Plowman, Gamlingay, GB;
Sean Tristram Ellis, Farnham, GB;
Assignee:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/40 (2011.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 11/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 11/40 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a tile-based graphics processing system, when a tile for a render output is to be generated, the fragment data storage requirements for each fragment to be generated for the tile is determined, and a color and/or depth buffer in the tile buffer is allocated for use by the fragments for the tile based on the determination. The graphics processing pipeline then, when generating rendered fragment data for the tile, stores the rendered fragment data in the color buffer and/or depth buffer of the tile buffer allocated to the fragments for the tile