Anisotropic texture filtering with texture data prefetching
US8310497B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 15, 2012 |
| Grant date | Nov 13, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 15, 2032 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2200/12
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A circuit arrangement and method utilize texture data prefetching to prefetch texture data used by an anisotropic filtering algorithm. In particular, stride-based prefetching may be used to prefetch texture data for use in anisotropic filtering, where the value of the stride, or difference between successive accesses, is based upon a distance in a memory address space between sample points taken along the line of anisotropy used in an anisotropic filtering algorithm.
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