Patent ID: 11861760
Assignee: ARM LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 4:
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the one or more earlier processing stages are operable to determine whether a primitive will be overdrawn such that one or more processing steps to be performed by the one or more later processing stages in respect of the primitive need not be performed, and to, when it is determined that a primitive will be overdrawn such that one or more processing steps to be performed by the one or more later processing stages in respect of the primitive need not be performed, cause the one or more later processing stages to omit performing the one or more processing steps in respect of the primitive; and
wherein causing the one or more earlier processing stages to determine that one or more processing steps to be performed by the one or more later processing stages in respect of the at least one primitive need not be performed comprises providing to the one or more earlier processing stages, a command that will trigger the one or more earlier processing stages to determine that the at least one primitive will be overdrawn.