PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16242893
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["345", "423000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for rendering a computer-generated image using a stencil buffer is described. The method divides an arbitrary closed polygonal contour into first and higher level primitives, where first level primitives correspond to contiguous vertices in the arbitrary closed polygonal contour and higher level primitives correspond to the end vertices of consecutive primitives of the immediately preceding primitive level. The method reduces the level of overdraw when rendering the arbitrary polygonal contour using a stencil buffer compared to other image space methods. A method of producing the primitives in an interleaved order, with second and higher level primitives being produced before the final first level primitives of the contour, is described which improves cache hit rate by reusing more vertices between primitives as they are produced.

Claim (Index 10):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein each separate closed contour has a start and an end point which is not a start/end point of another contour.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95652
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15896532', '12800540', '13720318', '15896298', '09133741']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7663284884474016
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6623002935265672
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7559256689553182
- Mean Citation Score: 609.2405980000002
- Max Citation Score: 726.9956
- Similarity Product: 601.521510183525

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

Dataset: test