Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hierarchical depth buffer back annotation
-
Application No.: US17382888Application Date: 2021-07-22
-
Publication No.: US11615584B2Publication Date: 2023-03-28
- Inventor: Vasanth Ranganathan , Saikat Mandal , Saurabh Sharma , Vamsee Vardhan Chivukula , Karol A. Szerszen , Aleksander Olek Neyman , Altug Koker , Prasoonkumar Surti , Abhishek Appu , Joydeep Ray , Art Hunter , Luis F. Cruz Camacho , Akshay R. Chada
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Spectrum IP Law Group LLC
- Main IPC: G06T15/40
- IPC: G06T15/40 ; G06T15/00

Abstract:
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a processor performs a coarse depth test on pixel data, and performs a final depth test on the pixel data. Coarse depth data is stored in a coarse depth cache, and per pixel depth data is stored in a per pixel depth cache. If a result of the coarse depth test is ambiguous, the processor is to read the per pixel depth data from the per pixel depth cache, and to update the coarse depth data with the per pixel depth data if the per pixel depth data has a smaller depth range than the coarse depth data.
Information query