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

Claim 19:
20. A method of controlling an input/output filter unit comprising a first buffer, a second buffer, a weight buffer and a configurable filter bank, the method comprising:
receiving information identifying a filtering task, the information identifying a filtering task comprising information identifying a set of data stored in one of the first and second buffers, a set of weights stored in the weight buffer and a type of filtering of a plurality of types of filtering, wherein the plurality of types of filtering comprises one or more types of texture filtering and one or more types of pixel filtering; and
causing the configurable filter bank to:
perform the identified type of filtering on the identified set of data using the identified set of weights, and
store results of the filtering in one of the first and second buffers.