US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on May 20 for "Cube mapping using gradients of an input block of fragments" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,555, issued on May 20, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Cube mapping using gradients of an input block of fragments" was invented by Rostam King (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and hardware for cube mapping comprise receiving fragment coordinates for an input block of fragments and texture instructions for the fragments and then determining, based on gradients of the input block of fragments, whether a first mode of cube mapping or a second mode of cube mapping is to be used, wherein the first mode of cube mapping performs calculations at a first preci...