Lossless compression for multisample render targets alongside fragment compression

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9912957-B1
Application number	US-201715477034-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Apr 1, 2017
Priority date	Apr 1, 2017
Publication date	Mar 6, 2018
Grant date	Mar 6, 2018

Abstract

One embodiment provides for a general-purpose graphics processor comprising a multisample antialiasing compression module to examine a number of colors to be stored for a set of sample locations of a pixel and allocate one or more planes to store color data for the set of sample locations of the pixel and a lossless compression module to apply lossless compression on the one or more planes and update a compression status in a compression control surface for each of the one or more planes.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A general-purpose graphics processor comprising:
a multisample antialiasing compression module to examine a number of colors to be stored for a set of sample locations of a pixel and allocate one or more planes to store color data for the set of sample locations of the pixel; and
a lossless compression module to apply lossless compression on the one or more planes and update a compression status in a compression control surface for each of the one or more planes.

2. The general-purpose graphics processor as in claim 1 , wherein the multisample antialiasing compression module is to update a multisample control surface to map the set of sample locations to the one or more planes.

3. The general-purpose graphics processor as in claim 2 , wherein the multisample antialiasing compression module is to compress the multisample control surface after the update.

4. The general-purpose graphics processor as in claim 1 , wherein to apply lossless compression on the one or more planes, the lossless compression module is to determine if color data in the one or more planes is compressible to a target compression ratio.

5. The general-purpose graphics processor as in claim 4 , wherein the lossless compression module is to compress the color data in the one or more planes when the color data is compressible to the target compression ratio.

6. The general-purpose graphics processor as in claim 5 , wherein the lossless compression module is to update the compression status in the compression control surface of the one or more planes when the color data is not compressible to the target compression ratio.

7. The general-purpose graphics processor as in claim 1 , wherein the multisample antialiasing compression module is configured to compress the lossless compression module is configured to perform multiple compression algorithms.

8. The general-purpose graphics processor as in claim 7 , wherein the lossless compression module is to update the compression control surface to indicate the compression algorithm applied to the one or more planes.

9. The general-purpose graphics processor as in claim 1 , wherein the one or more planes are virtual memory planes within an interleaved multisample render target.

10. The general-purpose graphics processor as in claim 1 , wherein the multisample antialiasing compression module is to determine that one or more sample locations in the set of sample locations are associated with a clear value and bypass plane allocation for the one or more sample locations.

11. A method of performing lossless color compression alongside fragment compression within a general-purpose graphics processor, the method comprising:
compacting sample data for multiple sample locations of a pixel;
mapping the multiple sample locations to memory locations storing compacted sample data, the memory locations mapped to the general-purpose graphics processor;
applying lossless compression to the compacted sample data; and
updating a compression control surface associated with the memory locations to indicate a compression status for the memory locations.

12. The method as in claim 11 , wherein compacting the sample data includes storing only unique color values within the sample data.

13. The method as in claim 12 , wherein mapping the multiple sample locations to memory locations storing the compacted sample data includes allocating a memory plane for each unique color value associated with the sample locations.

14. The method as in claim 11 , wherein applying lossless compression to the compacted sample data includes applying one or more lossless compression algorithms to a memory plane storing a unique color value.

15. The method as in claim 14 , wherein updating the compression control surface includes storing an indicator for the one or more lossless compression algorithms applied to the memory plane.

16. The method as in claim 11 , wherein mapping the multiple sample locations to memory locations storing the compacted sample data includes updating a multisample control surface with a mapping between the multiple sample locations and a memory plane storing color data associated with the multiple sample locations.

17. A data processing system comprising:
a non-transitory machine-readable medium to store instructions for execution by one or more processors of the data processing system;
a memory module to store a multisample render target; and
a general-purpose graphics processor comprising a multisample antialiasing compression module and a lossless compression module, wherein the multisample antialiasing module is to examine a number of colors to be stored for a set of sample locations of a pixel and allocate one or more planes to store color data for the set of sample locations of the pixel, and wherein the lossless compression module is to apply lossless compression on the one or more planes and update a compression status in a compression control surface for each of the one or more planes.

18. The data processing system as in claim 17 , wherein the multisample antialiasing compression module is to update a multisample control surface to map the set of sample locations to the one or more planes.

19. The data processing system as in claim 18 , wherein the multisample antialiasing compression module is to compress the multisample control surface after the update.

20. The data processing system as in claim 17 , wherein to apply lossless compression on the one or more planes, the lossless compression module is to determine if color data in the one or more planes is compressible to a target compression ratio and compress the color data in the one or more planes when the color data is compressible to the target compression ratio.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Surti Prasoonkumar
• Appu Abhishek R
• Norris Michael J
• Liskay Eric G

Classifications

• G06T2200/12

  involving antialiasing · CPC title

• G06T9/00

  Image coding (bandwidth or redundancy reduction for static pictures H04N1/41; coding or decoding of static colour picture signals H04N1/64; methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/00) · CPC title

• H04N19/85

  using pre-processing or post-processing specially adapted for video compression · CPC title

• G06T5/20

  using local operators · CPC title

• H04N19/436 Primary

  using parallelised computational arrangements · CPC title