Reorganized anisotropic sampling order
US7167183B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 14, 2004 |
| Grant date | Jan 23, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 26, 2025 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T15/005
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The current invention involves new systems and methods for reorganizing a texture sampling order that is used to read texels from a texel cache. When anisotropic filtering is used to process the texels read from the texel cache, the texels are read in an order based on a major axis alignment. Reorganizing texture sampling order to use the order based on the major axis alignment results in improved texel cache locality, thereby improving texel cache performance.
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