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Apparatus and method for assigning shrinkage factor during texture mapping operations

US6476819B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateNov 18, 1999
Grant dateNov 5, 2002
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Expiry dateNov 18, 2019

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

Abstract

The present invention provides a picture processing apparatus and method comprising a displacement computing unit which computes displacements in a UV coordinate system of a 2-dimensional picture texture to be pasted on a multidimensional figure from displacements in a texture coordinate system of the figure and an XY coordinate system onto which the figure is mapped and supplies the computed displacements to a displacement adjusting unit for adjusting the displacements by multiplying them by adjustment coefficients to produce adjusted displacements which are then supplied to a shrinkage-factor computing unit for computing a shrinkage factor to be used as a shrinkage factor of MIPMAP filtering.

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