Coarse pixel shading with temporal supersampling

K Xiao, G Liktor, K Vaidyanathan - Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Decoupled sampling techniques such as coarse pixel shading can lower the shading rate
while resolving visibility at the full resolution, thereby preserving details along geometric …

Variable rate deferred passes in graphics rendering

I Nevraev, MJI FULLER - US Patent 10,235,799, 2019 - Google Patents
US10235799B2 - Variable rate deferred passes in graphics rendering - Google Patents
US10235799B2 - Variable rate deferred passes in graphics rendering - Google Patents …

Image processing method and apparatus with adaptive sampling

W Lee, Y Shin, S Hwang - US Patent 9,865,078, 2018 - Google Patents
According to a method of processing an image, respective sampling rates of each tile
included in a second frame is determined based on a corresponding rendering result of a …

System, method, and computer program product for tiled deferred shading

M McGuire, MT Mara, DP Luebke… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for tiled deferred shading. In
operation, a plurality of photons associated with at least one scene are identified. Further, a …

Vertex shader with primitive replication

T Bujewski, R Drabinski, S Maiyuran… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
An embodiment of a semiconductor package apparatus may include technology to
determine one or more conditions for a set of primitives, and perform primitive replication at …

Replicating primitives across multiple viewports

KK Bhiravabhatla, S Maiyuran, RM Toth… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
An embodiment of a graphics processor pipeline apparatus may include a vertex fetcher to
fetch vertices, a vertex shader communicatively coupled to the vertex fetcher to shade the …

Exploiting frame to frame coherency in a sort-middle architecture

J Fernandez, JC Casado, P Marcuello… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
Pixel values that were computed in a previous frame may be reused for the current frame,
operating in a sort-middle architecture. A hash or some other compact representation of all …

Exploiting frame to frame coherency in a sort-middle architecture

J Fernandez, JC Casado, P Marcuello… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
Pixel values that were computed in a previous frame may be reused for the current frame,
operating in a sort-middle architecture. A hash or some other compact representation of all …

Apparatus and method for dynamic polygon or primitive sorting for improved culling

JK Nilsson, TG Akenine-Moller, M Andersson - US Patent 9,922,449, 2018 - Google Patents
An apparatus and method are described for dynamic polygon or primitive sorting for
improved culling. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a rasterization …

Relaxed sorting in a position-only pipeline

TG Akenine-Moller, M Andersson… - US Patent 10,249,079, 2019 - Google Patents
Primary Examiner—Shivang I Patel (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Trop Pruner & Hu, PC
(57) ABSTRACT In the cull pipe, positions of the vertices of a triangle have already been …