PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15913480
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["345", "423000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure describes a method and apparatus for performing tessellation in a graphics process. A graphics processing unit may be configured to determine tessellation factors for a first patch of the graphics data, determine, based on the tessellation factors, that a first edge of an outermost ring of the first patch will produce only degenerated sub-primitives, and skip performing tessellation for the first edge. A graphics processing unit may determine that a second edge of the outermost ring of the first patch will produce at least some normal sub-primitives, and perform tessellation for the second edge to produce output primitives.

Claim (Index 14):
The apparatus of  claim 10 , wherein the one or more processors include a graphics processing unit, the graphics processing unit comprising a tessellator stage having a tessellator setup block, and a tessellator connectivity and point generator,\n wherein the tessellator setup block is configured to determine, based on the tessellation factors, that the first edge of the outermost ring of the first patch will produce only degenerated sub-primitives, and send, in response to determining that the first edge of the outermost ring of the first patch will produce only degenerated sub-primitives, an indication corresponding to the first edge to the tessellator connectivity and point generator, the indication indicating the tessellation of the first edge is to be skipped, and wherein the tessellator connectivity and point generator is configured to skip performing tessellation for the first edge based on the indication.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 67.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15174035', '13842017', '15173844', '14791626', '13599645']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6844529926209421
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5198419708420787
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6679918904430557
- Mean Citation Score: 306.936544
- Max Citation Score: 328.50488
- Similarity Product: 230.83580356157304

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

Dataset: test