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 5):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein receiving the command to render primitives that compose the image further comprises receiving an SRP value per object (SRPo) for one or more objects in the image or receiving an SRP value per vertex (SRPv) for one or more vertices in the image, and wherein determining the respective SRP values for the one or more regions further comprises using selected SRPo values or selected SRPv values corresponding to each 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): 0.725377455672278
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.647635621856553
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7176032722907054
- Mean Citation Score: 432.75182
- Max Citation Score: 613.66296
- Similarity Product: 605.4166386596775

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