Patent ID: 11922536
Assignee: IMAGINATION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. An input/output filter unit for use in a graphics processing unit, the input/output filter unit comprising:
a first buffer configured to store data received from, and output to, a first component of the graphics processing unit;
a second buffer configured to store data received from, and output to, a second component of the graphics processing unit;
a weight buffer configured to store filter weights;
a filter bank configurable to perform any of a plurality of types of filtering on a set of input data, the plurality of types of filtering comprising one or more types of texture filtering and one or more types of pixel filtering; and
control logic configured to cause the filter bank to: (i) perform one of the plurality of types of filtering on a set of data stored in one of the first and second buffers using a set of weights stored in the weight buffer, and (ii) store the results of the filtering in one of the first and second buffers.