Image processing apparatus and method

Details Image processing apparatus and method Image processing apparatus and method

1997-12-01

1999-11-30

Nguyen, Phu K.

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

Three-dimension

G09G 300

Patent

active

059951117

ABSTRACT:
An image processing apparatus for generating image data to be displayed on a predetermined display screen, comprises an image data generator for receiving polygon information of a polygon including at least position information on the display screen and generating image data corresponding to pixels in the polygon; a frame buffer memory for storing image data pixel by pixel; a blur-value buffer memory for storing information of a degree of influence of the image data of each pixel on pixels therearound, as a blur value, in a predetermined pixel unit; and a blur processor for performing an arithmetic operation on the image data of each pixel, read from the frame buffer memory, in accordance with the degree of influence from surrounding pixels, read from the blur-value buffer memory, to generate image data to be displayed on the display screen, and by a method for this apparatus.

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