US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Aug. 11 for "High accuracy texture filtering in computer graphics" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,817, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"High accuracy texture filtering in computer graphics" was invented by Thomas Rose (Watford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A texture filtering unit has inputs arranged to receive at least two texture values each clock cycle and a plurality of filter coefficients, the plurality of filter coefficients relating to a plurality of different texture filtering methods; hardware logic arranged to convert the input texture values to fixed-point representation; a coefficient merging logic block arranged to generate a single comp...