US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 7 for "Virtual reality apparatus and method including prioritized pixel shader operations, alternate eye rendering, and/or augmented timewarp" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,469, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Virtual reality apparatus and method including prioritized pixel shader operations, alternate eye rendering, and/or augmented timewarp" was invented by Brent E. Insko (Portland, Ore.) and Prasoonkumar Surti (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are described for performing an early depth test on graphics data. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises: early depth test circuitry to perform an early depth test on blocks of pixels to determine whether all pixels in the block of pixels can be resolved...