Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphics processing – Attributes
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-19
2006-12-19
Sajous, Wesner (Department: 2628)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Computer graphics processing
Attributes
C345S420000, C345S424000, C345S543000, C345S552000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07151545
ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods for displaying volume data on an arbitrary three-dimensional polygonal surface are disclosed. For each polygon in the polygonal surface, a two-dimensional texture tile is created and these texture tiles are combined to form texture atlases. Each texture atlas is allocated a specific amount of memory in a texture cache. Each polygon in the polygonal surface may be scan-converted and the resulting texels may be placed in the texture cache. Voxels that do not intersect any polygon in the polygonal surface may not be scan-converted. This method may result in reduced use of texture cache.
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