Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enhanced anti-aliasing by varying sample patterns spatially and/or temporally
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Application No.: US14846737Application Date: 2015-09-05
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Publication No.: US10096086B2Publication Date: 2018-10-09
- Inventor: Yury Y. Uralsky , Jonah M. Alben , Ankan Banerjee , Gregory Massal , Thomas Petersen , Oleg Kuznetsov , Eric B. Lum , Prakshep Mehta
- Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Artegis Law Group, LLP
- Main IPC: G06T5/00
- IPC: G06T5/00 ; G06T11/00 ; G06T1/20 ; G06T5/20

Abstract:
A raster unit is configured to generate different sample patterns for adjacent pixels within a given frame. In addition, the raster unit may adjust the sample patterns between frames. The raster unit includes an index unit that selects a sample pattern table for use with a current frame. For a given pixel, the index unit extracts a sample pattern from the selected sample pattern table. The extracted sample pattern is used to generate coverage information for the pixel. The coverage information for all pixels is then used to generate an image. The resultant image may then be filtered to reduce or remove artifacts induced by the changing of sample locations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160071242A1 ENHANCED ANTI-ALIASING BY VARYING SAMPLE PATTERNS SPATIALLY AND/OR TEMPORALLY Public/Granted day:2016-03-10
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