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Apparatus and method for asynchronous texel shading

US10818054B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

Franz P. Clarberg · Lund, SE
Tomasz Janczak · Gdańsk, PL
Carl J. Munkberg · Malmö, SE
Izajasz Piotr Wrosz · Banino, PL

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 1, 2016
Grant date	Oct 27, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 13, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T15/04
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus and method are described for asynchronous texel shading. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises: a first shader to perform shading operations on a plurality of pixels in a first pass and to submit a request to shade texels; and a texel shader to responsively perform texel shading operations in response to the request from the first shader, the texel shader to write results to a procedural texture stored in a memory subsystem, the procedural texture to be read during a second pass by the first shader or another shader.

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