Patent ID: 8031208
Filing Date: 2011-10-04
Classification: G06T,G09G

Abstract:
1. A drawing apparatus, comprising: a thread holding unit comprising a set of thread entries, each thread entry comprising an identifier of a first stamp, an identifier of a second stamp, lock information and XY coordinate information associated with the XY coordinates of the first stamp and the second stamp, wherein the first stamp and the second stamp each comprise a group of pixels; an instruction control unit that manages the execution of threads, wherein each thread is associated with a corresponding thread entry in the thread holding unit and a merge operation on the first stamp and the second stamp identified in the corresponding thread entry, each thread is divided into a set of subpasses for execution, and managing the execution of a thread comprises: a drawing processing unit which executes a drawing process on the first stamp and the second stamp identified in the thread entry corresponding to the issued thread, wherein the drawing process comprises the execution of at least one of the set of subpasses associated with the issued thread.