US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 24 for "Mapping texture point samples to lanes of a filter pipeline" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,887, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Mapping texture point samples to lanes of a filter pipeline" was invented by Tyson J. Bergland (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to texture sampling, e.g., in graphics processors. In some embodiments, a device includes processor circuitry (e.g., shader pipelines) configured to execute graphics programs and multiple sample pipelines. A given sample pipeline may be configured to, for a multi-texel sample operation specified by the processor circuitry, access texel data for multiple texels forming a first shape in a...