Patent ID: 7079146

Claim:
An image producing device, comprising: a plurality of geometry processing means for conducting geometry processing on respective images in parallel and to produce graphic element lists; graphics processing means for conducting graphic processing based on said graphic element lists; and an arbitrator for controlling delivery of said graphic element lists produced by said plurality of geometry processing means to said graphics processing means, wherein: said graphics processing means includes a plurality of buffers for storing graphic contexts corresponding to said plurality of geometry processing means together with identification information thereof, and means for reading a specific graphic context from one of said plurality of buffers upon inputting said graphic element lists from said arbitrator to conduct said graphic processing, and each of said plurality of geometry processing means produces said graphic element list having, as its contents, said identification information of said graphic context and information for specifying one of said plurality of buffers, and said reading means reads a corresponding graphic context according to said identification information of said corresponding graphic context and said information for specifying said one of said plurality of buffers.