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Fragment compression for coarse pixel shading

US10706616B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

Prasoonkumar Surti · Folsom, US
Abhishek R. Appu · Cameron Park, US
Subhajit Dasgupta · Austin, US
Srivallaba Mysore · Folsom, US
Michael J. Norris · Folsom, US
Vasanth Ranganathan · Cameron Park, US
Joydeep Ray · Folsom, US

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 21, 2017
Grant date	Jul 7, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 22, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2210/52
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

One embodiment provides for a graphics processing unit comprising a processing cluster to perform coarse pixel shading and output shaded coarse pixels for processing by a pixel processing pipeline and a render cache to store coarse pixel data for input to or output from pixel processing pipeline.

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