US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on April 8 for "Hierarchical depth data generation using primitive fusion" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,000, issued on April 8, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hierarchical depth data generation using primitive fusion" was invented by Kiia K. Kallio (Inkoo, Finland) and Jan Achrenius (Noormakuu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Concurrently with performing a visibility pass to generate visibility data for two or more bins of an image, a processing system determines whether a primitive to be rendered covers at least a predetermined threshold percentage of a tile of the image. In response to the primitive coving at least the predetermined threshold percentage of the tile, the processing system st...