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2005-04-26

2005-04-26

Bella, Matthew C. (Department: 2676)

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphic processing system

Plural graphics processors

C345S502000, C345S505000, C712S028000, C712S032000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06885376

ABSTRACT:
A system, method, and computer program product for creating a sequence of computer graphics frames, using a plurality of rendering pipelines. For each frame, each rendering pipeline receives a subset of the total amount of graphics data for the particular frame. At the completion of a frame, each rendering pipeline sends a performance report to a performance monitor. The performance monitor determines whether or not there was a significant disparity in the time required by the respective rendering pipelines to render their tiles. If a disparity is detected, and if the disparity is determined to be greater than some threshold, an allocation module resizes the tiles for the next frame. This serves to balance the load across rendering pipelines for each frame.

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