Method for efficient re-rendering objects to vary viewports and under varying rendering and rasterization parameters

ME Cerny, J Scanlin - US Patent 10,438,312, 2019 - Google Patents
Graphics processing renders a scene with a plurality of different rendering parameters for
different locations on a screen area. A rendering parameter context is set up for each of a …

Varying effective resolution by screen location in graphics processing by approximating projection of vertices onto curved viewport

ME Cerny - US Patent 9,836,816, 2017 - Google Patents
In graphics processing data is received representing one or more vertices for a scene in a
virtual space. A projection of the vertices onto a screen space of a display device is …

Varying effective resolution by screen location by altering rasterization parameters

ME Cerny - US Patent 9,710,881, 2017 - Google Patents
In graphics processing data is received representing one or more vertices for a scene in a
virtual space. Primitive assembly is performed on the vertices to compute projec tions of the …

Load balancing

DE Wexler, LI Gritz, EB Enderton, CW Everitt - US Patent 7,868,891, 2011 - Google Patents
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Patents Load balancing Download PDF Info Publication number US7868891B2 US7868891B2 …

Gradient adjustment for texture mapping for multiple render targets with resolution that varies by screen location

ME Cerny - US Patent 9,652,882, 2017 - Google Patents
In a computer graphics processing unit (GPU) having a shader and a texture unit the pixel
shader is configured to receive or generate one or more sets of texture coordinates per pixel …

Systems and methods for providing an enhanced graphics pipeline

A Patel, CN Boyd, DR Blythe, JMJ Noyle… - US Patent …, 2009 - Google Patents
An enhanced graphics pipeline is provided that enables common core hardware to perform
as different components of the graphics pipeline, programmability of primitives including …

Dynamically optimized deferred rendering pipeline

Z Wang - US Patent 9,842,428, 2017 - Google Patents
A method for dynamically configuring a graphics pipeline system. The method includes
determining an optimal pipeline based on: estimating one or more of memory power …

Variable shading

TG Akenine-Moller, K Vaidyanathan, M Salvi… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
In some embodiments, a given frame or picture may have different shading rates. In one
embodiment in Some areas of the frame or picture the shading rate may be less than once …

Varying effective resolution by screen location by changing active color sample count within multiple render targets

T Berghoff - US Patent 10,068,311, 2018 - Google Patents
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is configured to receive metadata specifying an active
sample configuration for a particular region of a display device among a plurality of regions …

Graphics processing enhancement by tracking object and/or primitive identifiers

T Berghoff - US Patent 9,710,957, 2017 - Google Patents
Graphics processing includes setting up a plurality of objects in a scene in virtual space,
each object being defined by a set of Vertices. A unique object identifier is assigned to each …