Patent ID: 7667714

Claim:
A patterned polygon rendering apparatus, comprising: attribute dot setting processing means, which performs edge processing by means of assigning an attribute dot, indicating an edge of a polygon, to respective dots located on the outline of the polygon and storing the assigned attribute dots into work memory on a per-dot basis and which performs painting processing by means of assigning an attribute dot, indicating the inside of the polygon, to respective dots located in an internal region of the polygon by reference to the work memory and storing the assigned attribute dots into the work memory; and pattern setting processing means for performing pattern setting processing by means of setting edge color data for the dots assigned the attribute dots indicating the outline of the polygon, by reference to the work memory and setting pattern data to the dots assigned the attribute dots indicating the inside of the polygon, to thus render the data stored in the work memory in frame memory, wherein: the attribute dot setting processing means and the pattern setting processing means perform processing of a plurality of pictures in parallel through use of a plurality of pieces of work memory, the attribute dot setting processing means performs painting processing of a first picture from among the plurality of pictures in relation to a first work memory from among the plurality of pieces of work memory while the attribute dot setting processing means concurrently performs edge processing of a second picture from among the plurality of pictures in relation to a second work memory from among the plurality of pieces of work memory, the pattern setting processing means performs pattern setting processing of the first picture in relation to the first work memory while the attribute dot setting processing means concurrently performs painting processing of the second picture in relation to the second work memory, and the attribute dot setting processing means performs edge processing of a third picture from among the plurality of pictures in relation to the first work memory while the pattern setting processing means concurrently performs pattern setting processing of the second picture in relation to the second memory.