Patent ID: 9659344
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06T

Claim:
1. A graphics processing apparatus comprising: a control device for accepting graphical data relating to first graphic objects from a first application and for accepting graphical data relating to second graphic objects from a second application; a geometry module for generating the geometry data of the graphic objects from the graphical data; a raster module for rasterizing the graphic objects on the basis of the geometry data and for generating pixels of the graphic objects; the control device, the geometry module and the raster module forming a graphics pipeline which is designed to process one of the graphic objects in a serial pass through by generating pixels of the graphic object from the graphical data relating to the graphic object, wherein the graphics pipeline is designed to interrupt the processing of one of the first graphic objects of the first application in a first serial pass through so that a partially processed graphic object is present, to process at least one of the second graphic objects of the second application in a second serial pass through, and subsequently to continue the processing of the partially processed graphic object of the first application, wherein context data comprise: register data of the modules; and fifo data from memory devices between or upstream of the modules, and wherein the register data and the fifo data are alternately arranged in the context data, the assignment of the data to the modules and to the memory devices being fixed by the position of the register data and of the fifo data in the context data.