ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,185, issued on July 8, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Sparse rendering in computer graphics" was invented by Michael Worcester (Hemel Hempstead, Great Britain), Stuart Smith (Kings Langley, Great Britain) and Simon Fenney (St. Albans, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processing system includes a tiling unit configured to tile a scene into a plurality of tiles. A processing unit identifies tiles of the plurality of tiles that are each associated with at least a predetermined number of primitives. A memory management unit allocates a portion of memory to each of the ...