34 results about "Software rendering" patented technology

A 3D scalable surface renderer allows efficient real-time 3D rendering of high-detail smooth surfaces. The renderer is exceptionally effective with software rendering and low-end weaker graphics accelerators, and provides excellent visible quality per the amount of polygons used, while retaining low CPU processing overhead and high efficiency on graphics hardware. The 3D scalable surface renderer provides real time rendering of extremely detailed smooth surfaces with view-dependent tessellation using an improved level of detail approach.

A multithreaded rendering software pipeline architecture dynamically reallocates regions of an image space to raster threads based upon performance data collected by the raster threads. The reallocation of the regions typically includes resizing the regions assigned to particular raster threads and / or reassigning regions to different raster threads to better balance the relative workloads of the raster threads.

System and method embodiments are provided for enabling OpenGL graphics rendering on VM architecture. In an embodiment, a method implemented in a system comprising multiple virtual machines (VMs) includes intercepting, at a first VM that does not have direct access to a graphics processing unit (GPU), a command from an application to render graphics. The method further includes processing the command using hardware based GPU rendering at a second VM that has direct access to a GPU upon determining that the GPU is free or has capacity to handle workload of the command or processing the command using CPU based software rendering at the first VM upon determining that the GPU of the second VM is busy or does not have capacity to handle workload of the command and the graphics data.

A method of software evolution, software evolution system and program product therefor. A context specification handler stores context specifications describing requirements on context-adapted software. A Software Part Semantics Specification (SPSS) handler stores software part semantics specifications. A Software Implementation (SI) handler stores SIs. Behavior History handler stores a history of active software behavior analysis results of monitoring previous versions. A software rendering handler combines software behavior history with context specification, software part semantics specifications and SIs and distributes (and optionally deploys) context-adapted software. A software inspector continuously monitors context behavior of deployed versions and selectively identifies active context-adapted software failing to satisfy context specification for reassembly of a new version(s).

A computer network communication method and system wherein software rendering software is interposed in the data communication path between a browser running on a user computer and the internet data sources (for example, internet-accessible server computers) that the user browser wants to receive information from. The software rendering application gets data from internet data sources, but this data may contain malware. To provide enhanced security, the software rendering application renders this data to form a new browser readable code set (for example, an xml page with CSS layers), and this new and safe browser readable code set is sent along to the browser on the user computer for appropriate presentation to the user. As part of the rendering process, dedicated and distinct virtual machines may be used to render certain portion of the data, such as executable code. These virtual machines may be watched, and quickly destroyed if it is detected that they have encountered some type of malware.

A method of displaying a user interface in a portable electronic device is provided. The method includes displaying a user interface via a graphics layer attached to a software renderer, detaching the graphics layer from the software renderer, and attaching the graphics layer to one or more of a plurality of hardware layers, such that the display of the graphics layer is facilitated by one or more features of at least one of the hardware layers. An electronic device is provided that includes a display, a processor coupled to the display and configured to provide a plurality of hardware layers, and a user interface comprising a graphics layer, wherein the display of the graphics layer is facilitated by one or more features of at least one of the hardware layers, wherein the graphics layer dynamically attaches to or detaches from one or more of the plurality of hardware layers.

One embodiment of the invention sets forth a mechanism for displaying lighting values associated with a 3-D graphics model by superimposing an overlay grid with lighting values on the 3-D graphics model. A software rendering engine computes lighting values for each frame that includes the 3-D graphics model, where each frame may have different lighting settings. An overlay grid with lighting values may be superimposed on an area defined by a light meter on the 3-D graphics model. The lighting values on the overlay grid are associated with the light meter and may vary frame-over-frame. In another embodiment, a JPEG image with a superimposed overlay grid with per-pixel lighting values covering a 3-D graphics model is generated for each frame that includes the 3-D graphics model. These JPEG images may be displayed on the screen and stored to an external memory.

By distributing a large amount of processing among multiple devices, the mechanism that seeks high-speed processing does not perform processing allocation that considers the hardware resources of the devices that perform the distributed processing. Therefore, the drawing in the printing job is distributed among the devices connected to the computer network. During processing, determine whether to perform hardware processing or software processing (S1102, S1103), search for an image processing device that can perform hardware rendering processing or software rendering processing (S1104, S1106) from devices connected to the computer network, and determine and The result of the search is notified to the device that sent the job divided from the print job (S1108).

The invention provides a fractal image generation and rendering method based on a game engine and CPU parallel processing, relates to the technical field of CPU parallel processing in an image game engine, and aims to solve the technical problems in the prior art that image data information division is unreasonable, the rendering performance and the efficiency are low due to limited arranging structures of commands such as parallel processing and synchronous operation, and the performance requirements of real-time rendering cannot be met. In addition, the invention provides a new technical problem which specifically is how to realize highly-efficient and high-quality image rendering by simultaneously using more than two fractal algorithms in parallel. A software rendering generation algorithm is constructed based on fractal characteristics; and the CPU parallel processing technology is utilized to process fractal image geometrical characteristics in real time, a control flow instruction parallel algorithm is utilized to optimize rendering generated pipe lines, rapid generation and rendering of a fractal image model are realized, and a rapid and accurate display effect in a user PC machine is achieved.