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Processor for controlling the display of rendered image layers and method for controlling same
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Inventors: Chauvin, Joseph W.; Gabriel, Steven A.; Good, Howard; Griffin, Kent E.; Powell, III, William Chambers; Scott, III, George Easton; Toelle, Michael A.; Torborg, Jr., John G.; Veres, James E.;
Assignee: Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)
Primary Examiner: Nguyen; Phu K.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Klarquist Sparkman Campbell Leigh & Whinston LLP
A gsprite engine circuit reads a display list identifying gsprite image layers to be composited for display, retrieves gsprite image data from an external memory, and transforms the gsprite data to display device coordinates. The gsprite image layers represent independently rendered graphical objects in a graphics scene. The gsprite engine can simulate the motion of the graphical objects in a sequence of display images by performing affine transformations on the gsprite image layers. The interface to the gsprite engine circuit includes the display list and gsprite header blocks. The display list enumerates the gsprites to be composited as a display image. The header blocks describe a gsprite transform, which can be an affine transform, used to transform gsprites to display device coordinates. The header blocks also provide an array of references to image blocks or "chunks" comprising the gsprite. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The invention provides a novel circuit device called a gsprite engine that controls the display of image layers called gsprites.
The invention further provides novel methods for controlling the display of these gsprites and for controlling the gsprite engine.
In one embodiment of the invention, graphical objects in a scene are separately rendered to gsprites.
These gsprites are then composited to form a display image at video rates.
As part of the display generation process, the gsprite engine circuit retrieves gsprites in a display list, and transforms the gsprites to the display screen space of a display device.
The gsprite engine can perform an affine transformation on one or more of the gsprites in the display list to simulate motion of 3-D graphical objects in a scene.
In one implementation, the gsprite engine circuit includes a memory interface controller, a set-up processor, a gsprite cache and a gsprite processor.
In the process of generating a display image, the gsprite engine reads a display list and gsprite control and image data from an external memory through the memory interface controller.
The display list specifies the gsprites to be composited into the display image.
Based on the gsprites listed in the display list, the set-up processor retrieves the appropriate control and image data from the external memory.
The control data includes gsprite transforms that define how each gsprite in the display list is to be transformed to output device coordinates.
To process a gsprite in the display list, the gsprite engine reads control data identifying the location of gsprite image data, and in response, retrieves gsprite image data into the gsprite cache.
The gsprite processor then transforms the gsprite image data to output device coordinates based on the gsprite transform for the gsprite currently being processed.
This process repeats for each of the gsprites in the list.
The gsprite transform data includes at least one affine transform corresponding to a gsprite in the display list
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