US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Aug. 19 for "Texture address generation using fragment pair differences" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,133, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Texture address generation using fragment pair differences" was invented by Rostam King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and hardware for texture address generation receive fragment coordinates for an input block of fragments and texture instructions for the fragments and calculating gradients for at least one pair of fragments. Based on the gradients, the method determines whether a first mode or a second mode of texture address generation is to be used and then uses the determined mode and the g...