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Title:
GRAPHICS PROCESSING APPARATUS, GRAPHICS LIBRARY MODULE, AND GRAPHICS PROCESSING METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2008123519
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To solve the problem that the boundary between hardware and software appears obscure to an application, and for this reason, the existing graphics libraries are not suitable for the finely-tuned control.

There is provided a graphics processing system that includes a main processing unit 100 and a graphics processing unit (GPU) 200. The main processing unit 100 puts rendering commands generated using a graphics library 300 by the application 310 in the queue of a command buffer 10 in a main memory 120. In this process, the library function offered by the graphics library 300 is converted into the rendering commands, without any rendering attributes retained in the library. The GPU 200 reads and executes the rendering commands stacked in the command buffer 10, and generates rendering data in a frame buffer 20.


Inventors:
LENGYEL ERIC
ENGSTAD PAL-KRISTIAN
CERNY MARK EVAN
HOFFMAN NATHANIEL
OLICK JON
KANEKO MOTOI
WASHIZU YOSHINORI
Application Number:
JP2007288981A
Publication Date:
May 29, 2008
Filing Date:
November 06, 2007
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Assignee:
SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC
International Classes:
G06T1/20; G06T11/00; G06T15/00
Domestic Patent References:
JPH09179717A1997-07-11
JP2004302927A2004-10-28
JP2005202983A2005-07-28
JP2008524720A2008-07-10
JP2005521178A2005-07-14
JP2008538829A2008-11-06
Foreign References:
WO2004055672A12004-07-01
WO2006068985A22006-06-29
WO2006099328A12006-09-21
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Sakaki Morishita