Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Local image blocks for graphics processing
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Application No.: US15388804Application Date: 2016-12-22
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Publication No.: US10445852B2Publication Date: 2019-10-15
- Inventor: Terence M. Potter , Robert Kenney , Aaftab A. Munshi , Justin A. Hensley , Richard W. Schreyer
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06T1/20
- IPC: G06T1/20 ; G06T1/60

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed relating to a hardware-supported flexible data structure for graphics processing. In some embodiments, dimensions of the data structure are configurable in an X direction, a Y direction, a number of samples per pixel, and an amount of data per sample. In some embodiments, these attributes are configurable using hardware registers. In some embodiments, the data structure is persistent across a tile being processed such that local memory context is accessible to both rendering threads of a render pass and mid-render compute threads.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180182058A1 Local Image Blocks for Graphics Processing Public/Granted day:2018-06-28
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