PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862382
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["345", "420000"]

Abstract:
A method and system for culling a patch of surface data from one or more tiles in a tile based computer graphics system. A rendering space is divided into a plurality of tiles and a patch of surface data read. Then, at least a portion of the patch is analysed to determine data representing a bounding depth value evaluated over at least one tile. This may comprise tessellating the patch of surface data to derive a plurality of tessellated primitives and analysing at least some of the tessellated primitives. For each tile within which the patch is located, the data representing the bounding depth value is then used to determine whether the patch is hidden in the tile, and at least a portion of the patch is rendered, if the patch is determined not to be hidden in at least one tile.

Claim (Index 13):
A graphics system for having a rendering space subdivided into a plurality of tiles, the system comprising:\n tessellation logic configured to tesselate a patch of surface data; processing logic configured to determine that the patch is present in the tile but not needed to render the tile, prior to the tile being rendered; rendering logic configured to render the tile without using the patch.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25373
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15372088', '14135125', '13066957', '15259351', '15793343']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6973660589076227
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5498874196585156
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.682618194982712
- Mean Citation Score: 353.901234
- Max Citation Score: 425.47232
- Similarity Product: 342.16684047538763

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

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