Patent · US Active

Graphics processing systems

US9916675B2 · kind B2 · utility

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2References

22Claims

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Assignee

Arm Limited · GB

Inventors

Edward Plowman · Cambridge, GB
Sean Tristram Ellis · Farnham, GB

Key dates

Filing date	May 31, 2013
Grant date	Mar 13, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 17, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T11/40
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a tile-based graphics processing system, when a tile for a render output is to be generated, the fragment data storage requirements for each fragment to be generated for the tile is determined 51, and a color and/or depth buffer in the tile buffer is allocated for use by the fragments for the tile based on the determination 57. The graphics processing pipeline then, when generating rendered fragment data for the tile, stores the rendered fragment data in the color buffer and/or depth buffer of the tile buffer allocated to the fragments for the tile 58.

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