Patent ID: 7161599
Filing Date: 2007-01-09
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. In a computing environment, a system comprising, a graphics subsystem for outputting frames of display information including graphics; a first component that provides graphics data at a first rate to the graphics subsystem to output the frames of display information; a second component that interfaces with program code to produce scene data for the program code, the second component configured to process the scene data into graphics information by maintaining at least some of the scene data in a cache data structure and traversing the cache data structure at a second rate that is lower than the first rate, and to provide the graphics information to the first component; the cache data structure arranged as a hierarhical tree of nodes in which at least one of the nodes comprises a container structure that includes drawing instructions; and wherein the first component provides return information to the second component that the second component uses to traverse the cache data structure or maintain the scene data in the cache data structure.