PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16175463
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["345", "583000"]

Abstract:
Methods and devices for rendering graphics in a computer system include a graphical processing unit (GPU) with a flexible, dynamic, application-directed mechanism for varying the rate at which fragment shading is performed for rendering an image to a display. In particular, the described aspects allow different shading rates to be used for different regions of a primitive based on a new, interpolated shading rate parameter. In other words, the described aspects enable the GPU to change shading rates on-the-fly between different fragments of each primitive. Additionally, or independently, the GPU utilizes each respective shading rate parameter to determine how many sample positions to consider to be covered by the computed shaded output, e.g., the fragment color, thereby allowing the color sample to be shared across two or more pixels.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the shading further comprises:\n shading, within the first region, a first set of one or more fragments including the first fragment based on a first color per pixel and a first sample coverage mask for all of the samples belonging to each pixel in the first region; and shading, within the second region, a second set of one or more fragments including the second fragment based on a second color per multiple pixels and a second sample coverage mask for all of the samples belonging to the multiple pixels in the second region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15237334', '15629997', '15639253', '15638865', '15639389']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7252703467239308
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6479610999435212
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7175394220458898
- Mean Citation Score: 432.75182
- Max Citation Score: 613.66296
- Similarity Product: 606.5817310245179

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test