Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphics display memory system – Shared memory
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-12
2010-12-14
Hajnik, Daniel F (Department: 2628)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Computer graphics display memory system
Shared memory
Reexamination Certificate
active
07852345
ABSTRACT:
One embodiment of the invention is a method of accessing a bindable uniform variable bound to a buffer object that includes the steps of creating a linked program object comprising one or more shader programs, where each shader program includes instructions written in a high-level shader language, and where the linked program object includes a reference to a bindable uniform variable and indicates which shader programs use the bindable uniform variable. The method also includes determining a memory size to support the bindable uniform variable, allocating a buffer object having the memory size, binding the buffer object to the bindable uniform variable, populating the buffer object with values for the bindable uniform variable, and accessing the values of the bindable uniform with one or more of the shader programs in the linked program object.
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Brown Patrick R.
Lichtenbelt Barthold B.
Hajnik Daniel F
NVIDIA Corporation
Patterson & Sheridan, LLP.
Yang Andrew
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