Patent · US Active

System and method for transparency rendering

US7583263B2 · kind B2 · utility

4Cited by
5References
21Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateDec 9, 2003
Grant dateSep 1, 2009
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 4, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T9/001
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system, method, and computer program product that accepts raw polygon geometry and view parameters from the visualization API, sorts the polygons in back-to-front order, and then supplies the sorted triangles to graphics API such as OpenGL.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.