发明授权
- 专利标题: Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor
- 专利标题(中): 延迟着色图形流水线处理器
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申请号: US09632293申请日: 2000-08-04
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公开(公告)号: US06268875B1公开(公告)日: 2001-07-31
- 发明人: Jerome F. Duluk, Jr. , Richard E. Hessel , Vaughn T. Arnold , Jack Benkual , Joseph P. Bratt , George Cuan , Stephen L. Dodgen , Emerson S. Fang , Zhaoyu Gong , Thomas Y. Ho , Hengwei Hsu , Sidong Li , Sam Ng , Matthew N. Papakipos , Jason R. Redgrave , Sushma S. Trivedi , Nathan D. Tuck
- 申请人: Jerome F. Duluk, Jr. , Richard E. Hessel , Vaughn T. Arnold , Jack Benkual , Joseph P. Bratt , George Cuan , Stephen L. Dodgen , Emerson S. Fang , Zhaoyu Gong , Thomas Y. Ho , Hengwei Hsu , Sidong Li , Sam Ng , Matthew N. Papakipos , Jason R. Redgrave , Sushma S. Trivedi , Nathan D. Tuck
- 主分类号: G06T120
- IPC分类号: G06T120
摘要:
Three-dimensional computer graphics systems and methods and more particularly to structure and method for a three-dimensional graphics processor and having other enhanced graphics processing features. In one embodiment the graphics processor is a Deferred Shading Graphics Processor (DSGP) comprising an AGP interface, a command fetch & decode (2000), a geometry unit (3000), a mode extraction (4000) and polygon memory (5000), a sort unit (6000) and sort memory (7000), a setup unit (8000), a cull unit (9000), a mode injection (10000), a fragment unit (11000), a texture (12000) and texture memory (13000) a phong shading (14000), a pixel unit (15000), a backend unit (1600) coupled to a frame buffer (17000). Other embodiments need not include all of these functional units, and the structures and methods of these units are applicable to other computational processes and systems as well as deferred and non-deferred shading graphical processors.