ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,556, issued on July 14, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Hidden culling in tile-based computer generated images" was invented by Xile Yang (Rickmansworth, Great Britain), John W. Howson (St. Albans, Great Britain) and Simon Fenney (St. Albans, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system is provided for culling hidden objects in a tile-based graphics system before they are indicated in a display list for a tile. A rendering space is divided into a plurality of regions which may for example be a plurality of tiles or a plurality of areas into which one or more tiles are...