Method and apparatus for three dimensional graphics processing
US6738058B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 30, 1997 |
| Grant date | May 18, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 30, 2017 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T15/04
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and apparatus for compression and decompression of a two dimensional video object such that the video object may subsequently be displayed as a three dimensional object is generally accomplished by a set-up engine which receives vertex parameters and generates a plurality of derivatives and Bresenham parameters, therefrom. The derivatives and Bresenham parameters are provided to an edgewalker circuit which produces, therefrom, a plurality of spans which, in turn, is converted in to a set of texel addresses by a texel address generator. A texel fetch circuit receives the set of texel addresses and uses the addresses to retrieve a set of texels, which is subsequently processed by a texel processor to produce a filtered pixel. To retrieve the set of texels, the texel fetch circuit retrieves a set of indexes based on the texel addresses and uses the set of texels to retrieve the set of texels from a codebook. The retrieval of the set of indexes and the indexing of the codebook is executed within two consecutive clock cycles.
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