×

Low cost graphics with stitching processing hardware support for skeletal animation

  • US 6,700,586 B1
  • Filed: 11/28/2000
  • Issued: 03/02/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A computer graphics system providing animated real-time displays, said computer graphics system including a graphics pipeline comprising:

  • a texture coordinate generator;

    a texture transform unit coupled to said texture coordinate generator, said texture transform unit, in use, transforming texture coordinates for a texture mapping operation, and additional control circuitry within said graphics pipeline, said control circuitry controlling reuse of the texture transform unit to perform multiple per-vertex transformations for piecewise linear approximation interpolation between first and second vertices to provide stitching of a skin surface onto an animated vertex mesh, said control circuitry selecting different transformation matrices for different vertices.

View all claims
  • 1 Assignment
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×