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Method and apparatus for compression of multi-sampled anti-aliasing color data

  • US 8,774,535 B2
  • Filed: 01/18/2012
  • Issued: 07/08/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for compressing image data, comprising:

  • retrieving tiles of pixel data from a main memory;

    resizing said tiles;

    compressing said resized tiles, wherein said compressed tiles are stored in cache memory after compression;

    processing said compressed tiles in a graphics processorreturning said compressed tiles from said graphics processor to cache memory;

    resizing said compressed tiles in cache memory for storage in said main memory; and

    returning said resized tiles to main memory.

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