18882285. PROGRESSIVE MULTISAMPLE ANTI-ALIASING (Intel Corporation)
PROGRESSIVE MULTISAMPLE ANTI-ALIASING
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Abhishek R. Appu of El Dorado Hills CA US
Prasoonkumar Surti of Folsom CA US
Michael J. Norris of Folsom CA US
PROGRESSIVE MULTISAMPLE ANTI-ALIASING
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18882285 titled 'PROGRESSIVE MULTISAMPLE ANTI-ALIASING
Original Abstract Submitted
One embodiment provides a graphics processor comprising an interface to a system interconnect and a graphics processor coupled to the interface, the graphics processor comprising circuitry configured to compact sample data for multiple sample locations of a pixel, map the multiple sample locations to memory locations that store compacted sample data, the memory locations in a memory of the graphics processor, apply lossless compression to the compacted sample data, and update a compression control surface associated with the memory locations, the compression control surface to specify a compression status for the memory locations