Patent ID: 11875444
Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 15:
16. An execution unit comprising:
a plurality of processing cores that processes a plurality of rays, wherein each ray represents a path from a light source to at least one point within a three-dimensional (3D) environment;
a first fixed-function pipeline that receives a first ray from a first processing core included in the plurality of processing cores, determines a first location within a compressed texture block, and transmits the first location to the first processing core; and
a second fixed-function pipeline that receives the first location from the first processing core and extracts a first decompressed texel from a first compressed texel included in a plurality of compressed texels within the compressed texture block at the first location without decompressing any of the other compressed texels within the plurality of compressed texels.