ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,648, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Generation of a control stream for a tile" was invented by Xile Yang (Rickmansworth, Great Britain), Lorenzo Belli (Hemel Hempstead, Great Britain) and Richard Broadhurst (Chipperfield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing primitives within a tiling unit of a graphics processing system comprises determining whether a primitive falls within a tile based on positions of samples within each pixel. If it is determined that the primitive does fall within a tile based on the positions of samples within pixel...