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 1):
A method of rendering graphics in a computer device, comprising:\n receiving, at a graphics processing unit (GPU), a command to render primitives that compose an image; determining, by the GPU, respective sampling rate parameter (SRP) values for one or more regions of one or more primitives of one or more objects composing the image; determining, by the GPU, at least a first SRP value for a first region of at least one primitive used to compose the image and a second SRP value for a second region of the at least one primitive used to compose the image based on the respective SRP values for the respective regions of the image; identifying, by the GPU, a first set of a first number of samples covered by the at least one primitive in the first region and a second set of a second number of samples covered by the at least one primitive in the second region ; and shading, by the GPU, at least a first fragment corresponding to the first region based on the first set of the first number of samples and the first SRP value, and at least a second fragment corresponding to the second region based on the second set of the second number of samples and the second SRP value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15237334', '15629997', '15639253', '15638865', '15639389']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7006091145875974
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6468767251045566
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6952358756392935
- Mean Citation Score: 432.75182
- Max Citation Score: 613.66296
- Similarity Product: 610.2096734883071

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