STENCIL DATA COMPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHOD AND GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT INCORPORATING THE SAME

STENCIL DATA COMPRESSION SYSTEM AND METHOD AND GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT INCORPORATING THE SAME

A system and method for compressing stencil data attendant to rendering an image. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) selecting a base stencil value for a particular group, (2) selecting a single-bit delta value for each sample in the particular group and (3) storing the stencil base value a...

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1. Verfasser: BOLZ JEFFREY A
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
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ADVERTISING
ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICESUSING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
CRYPTOGRAPHY
DISPLAY
EDUCATION
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
PHYSICS
SEALS
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Zusammenfassung:A system and method for compressing stencil data attendant to rendering an image. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) selecting a base stencil value for a particular group, (2) selecting a single-bit delta value for each sample in the particular group and (3) storing the stencil base value and the delta values in a frame buffer.