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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2015
Applicant:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Andrew S. C. Pomianowski, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Konstantine Iourcha, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 19/176 (2014.01); G06T 1/60 (2006.01); H04N 19/46 (2014.01); H04N 19/12 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/176 (2014.11); G06T 1/60 (2013.01); H04N 19/12 (2014.11); H04N 19/46 (2014.11);
Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided for block based compression of a texture using hardware supported compression formats. The method comprises dividing a texture into a plurality of blocks, for each block, determining a transform for use with the block to minimize an error metric, encoding at least one characteristic of the transform into a plurality of bits otherwise available to represent reference component values, and compressing the block.