US Patent Issued to ATI TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 25 for "Multi-pass writeback with single-pass display consumption" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,054, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Multi-pass writeback with single-pass display consumption" was invented by Jie Zhou (Markham, Canada) and Wing-Chi Chow (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein allow multi-pass writeback processing of graphical frames (such as those having a high or ultrahigh resolution) to reduce bandwidth for display operations by, for example, splitting an input stream for processing by separate graphical pipelines as two or more spatially segmented portions. After receiving a graphical frame for processing, the graphical frame is s...