PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870081
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["345", "419000"]

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed relating to texture sampling operations. In some embodiments, multi-fetch sampling instructions specify a region of a texture in which multiple samples are to be performed and texture processing circuitry is configured to sample the texture multiple times within the region. In some embodiments, the locations of the samples are determined according to a formula, which may be pseudo-random. In some embodiments, the locations of the samples are jittered to produce stochastic results. In some embodiments, the locations of the samples are determined based on one or more stored sets of samples that have particular properties (e.g., blue noise, in some embodiments). In various embodiments, disclosed techniques may facilitate Monte Carlo sampling.

Claim (Index 16):
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that are executable by a computing device to perform operations comprising:\n providing, to texture processing circuitry based on a graphics instruction that specifies a number of samples to be performed and includes region information that specifies a region of a texture, a request for a plurality of samples from a graphics texture, wherein the request includes the region information using texture coordinates; receiving, from the texture processing circuitry, a response to the request from texture processing circuitry, wherein the response includes information corresponding to samples generated by sampling the texture a plurality of determined sample locations, including, for multiple ones of the sample locations, performing filtering to determine a sample output for the sample location based on multiple texels near the sample location; and processing the samples based on one or more other ones of the instructions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 34.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15018252', '14803926', '14482828', '15388804', '15625723']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6507491414700379
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.504207001114545
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6360949274344887
- Mean Citation Score: 199.81964
- Max Citation Score: 303.4378
- Similarity Product: 288.0102022410988

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

Dataset: test