US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 9 for "Methods and apparatus for selection of rendering modes" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,331, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatus for selection of rendering modes" was invented by Bo Du (Xi'an, China), Andrew Evan Gruber (Arlington, Mass.) and Yongjun Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to graphics processing. An apparatus of the present disclosure may determine visibility streams corresponding to a target and a set of bins into which the target is divided. The apparatus may select one of a first rendering mode or a second rendering mode for the target based on the first visibility stream and based on the set of second visibility stre...