Patent ID: 9600909
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06T,G09G

Claim:
1. A graphics unit, comprising: one or more memories configured to store graphics textures in a plurality of different formats; texture filtering circuitry configured to operate on texture information that is in a particular format and not on texture information that is in one or more of the plurality of different formats; circuitry configured to receive texture information from the one or more memories in ones of the plurality of different formats and process the received texture information to generate processed texture information that is in the particular format; and a storage element that includes entries configured to store the processed texture information in the particular format; wherein the texture filtering circuitry is configured to access processed texture information in an entry of the storage element multiple times as an input for different sampling operations, and wherein the graphics unit is configured to access the storage element using texture coordinates associated with the particular format.