US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 23 for "Sampler feedback for texture space shading" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,715, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sampler feedback for texture space shading" was invented by Joseph Daniel Garvey (San Diego) and Bojan Vrcelj (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for sampler feedback for texture space shading. A processor may assign each shading element in a set of shading elements associated with a geometry unit to a corresponding shading element group in a set of shading element groups. The processor may identify whether each shading element is a visible s...