Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Volume rendering processing distribution in a graphics processing unit
- Patent Title (中): 图形处理单元中的体绘制处理分布
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Application No.: US11126043Application Date: 2005-05-09
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Publication No.: US07714855B2Publication Date: 2010-05-11
- Inventor: Stefan Brabec , Thilaka S. Sumanaweera
- Applicant: Stefan Brabec , Thilaka S. Sumanaweera
- Applicant Address: US PA Malvern
- Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Malvern
- Main IPC: G06T1/00
- IPC: G06T1/00

Abstract:
An intersection of a cut plane with a proxy geometry representing a scan volume is determined with a processor. The intersection is simplified, such as identifying a quadrilateral or triangle most closely enclosing the intersection. The vertex processor of a GPU deforms a reference grid and determines Cartesian coordinates and the texture coordinates for grid points of the reference grid as a function of the input intersection. The vertex processor provides coordinates for data for subsets of cut planes. The fragment processor inputs the texture coordinates and retrieves the data from the texture memory. The data is blended. The blended subsets are then blended together in the frame buffer of the GPU.
Public/Granted literature
- US20050253841A1 Volume rendering processing distribution in a graphics processing unit Public/Granted day:2005-11-17
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