Patent ID: 11941741
Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A graphics system comprising:
an effect engine; and
a graphics pipeline operative to perform pipeline operations on graphical objects in a frame, the graphics pipeline including at least a fragment shader,
wherein an application programming interface (API) provides instructions that direct a plurality of stages of the graphics pipeline before and after rasterization to invoke the effect engine,
wherein the API further provides an instruction that directs a first stale of the plurality of stapes to send a subset of the graphical objects in the frame to the effect engine to execute,
wherein the first stage, when detecting the instruction provided by the API, invokes the effect engine to perform a predefined set of graphics operations on the subset of the graphical objects in the frame, and
wherein a second stale of the plurality of stapes, which is subsequent to the first stage in the graphics pipeline, is operative to receive output of the effect engine and to perform output processing on the graphical objects including the output of the effect engine, and wherein the predefined set of graphics operations has a higher computational complexity than the pipeline operations.