System and method for computing a desktop picture
First Claim
1. A method of computing a multicolor desktop background for display on a display device, the method comprising:
- loading a set of instructions and a first procedural description for computing a first image;
executing the set of instructions using the first procedural description as parameters to generate the first image;
wherein the first image is used as the desktop background.
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Abstract
Disclosed are a system and method for computing a desktop picture. Instead of loading a file that contains the desktop image from memory, the present invention provides for a system and method for opening and retaining a procedural recipe and a small set of instructions that can be executed to compute a desktop picture. The desktop picture can be computed very quickly using a GPU (graphics processing unit), and can be made to move on demand. When a part of the desktop image is needed to composite, that part is computed using a fragment program on the GPU using the procedural recipe and a specially written fragment program into a temporary VRAM buffer. After it is computed and composited, the buffer containing the result of the fragment program may be discarded.
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18 Claims
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1. A method of computing a multicolor desktop background for display on a display device, the method comprising:
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loading a set of instructions and a first procedural description for computing a first image;
executing the set of instructions using the first procedural description as parameters to generate the first image;
wherein the first image is used as the desktop background. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16)
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14. A method of computing a desktop background for display on a display device, the method comprising:
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loading into a graphics processing unit a set of instructions and a first procedural description for computing a first image;
executing inside the graphics processing unit the set of instructions using the first procedural description as parameters to generate the first image;
wherein the first image is used as the desktop background. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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17. A system for computing a desktop background for display onto a display device, the system comprising:
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a microprocessor; and
a GPU coupled to said microprocessor;
wherein a set of instructions and a first procedural description for computing a first image is loaded into the GPU; and
wherein the GPU executes the set of instructions using the first procedural description as parameters to generate the first image; and
wherein the first image is used as the desktop background. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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