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

Claim 14:
15. A method performed by a graphical processing unit (GPU), comprising:
performing, by a graphics pipeline, pipeline operations on graphical objects in a frame, wherein the graphics pipeline includes at least a fragment shader stage;
receiving instructions provided by an application programming interface (API), the instructions to direct a plurality of stages of the graphics pipeline before and after rasterization to invoke an effect engine, wherein receiving the instructions further comprises:
invoking, by a given stage of the graphics pipeline, the effect engine in response to an instruction provided by the API, wherein the instruction directs the given stage to send a subset of the graphical objects in the frame to the effect engine to execute;

executing, by the effect engine, a predefined set of graphics operations on the subset of the graphical objects in the frame and generating an output; and
performing output processing on the graphical objects including the output of the effect engine for display,
wherein the predefined set of graphics operations has a higher computational complexity than the pipeline operations.