Patent Document ID: 20030169271
Application ID: 10317599
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for improving magnified texture-mapped pixel performance in a computational pipeline, comprising: generating a plurality of textured pixel addresses; examining two consecutive textured pixel addresses of the plurality of textured pixel addresses to determine if the two consecutive textured pixel addresses map to a same texel; merging the two consecutive textured pixel addresses if the two consecutive textured pixel addresses map to the same texel; processing the two merged consecutive textured pixel addresses if the two consecutive textured pixel addresses map to the same texel or processing a first of the two consecutive textured pixel addresses if the two consecutive textured pixel addresses do not map to the same texel; and repeating said examining, said merging, and said processing next two textured pixel addresses of the plurality of textured pixel addresses; wherein, if the two consecutive textured pixel addresses map to the same texel, the next two textured pixel addresses comprise subsequent two consecutive textured pixel addresses of the plurality of textured pixel addresses to be examined in said examining; and wherein, if the two consecutive textured pixel addresses do not map to the same texel, the next two textured pixel addresses comprise a second of the two consecutive textured pixel addresses and a subsequent consecutive textured pixel address of the plurality of textured pixel addresses to be examined in said examining.