Patent ID: 8059144
Filing Date: 2011-11-15
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A graphics processing apparatus for generating a frame of pixel data values to be stored in a frame buffer memory, said graphics processing apparatus including a graphics processing pipeline, said pipeline including: (i) pixel value generating circuitry, responsive to one or more first input parameters, configured to generate pixel values at a first resolution for a region within said frame; (ii) a pipeline memory coupled to said processing pipeline and configured to store said pixel values at said first resolution; and (iii) write back circuitry coupled to said pipeline memory and configured to write pixel values stored in said pipeline memory to said frame buffer memory; and (iv) programmable resolving circuitry, responsive to one or more graphics program instructions and one or more second parameters, configured to read said pixel values at said first resolution from said pipeline memory and to perform a resolving operation specified by said graphics program instruction and said one or more second parameters to generate pixel values at a second resolution to be written by said write back circuitry to said frame buffer memory, said second resolution is different from said first resolution, wherein at said first resolution said region within said frame is represented by a first number of pixels and at said second resolution said region within said frame is represented by a second number of pixels.