Patent ID: 9437031
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: G06T

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing a noise texture, the method comprising: storing noise texture data comprising a plurality of noise texels in a plurality of physical pages in physical memory; mapping, via a graphics processing unit, a plurality of virtual pages in a virtual address space to a first physical page included in the plurality of physical pages, wherein the first physical page includes at least one noise texel included in the plurality of noise texels and multiple virtual addresses in the virtual address space are mapped to the same physical address at the same time; receiving a request for a noise texel identified by reference to a virtual address; translating, by reference to the mapping, the virtual address for the requested noise texel into a corresponding physical address; retrieving the requested noise texel from the physical memory using the physical address; rendering a pixel using the requested noise texel; and providing the pixel to a display device.