A couple of Xenos patents..

[nAo]

unified shadind:
Graphics processing architecture employing a unified shader
tesselator:
Method and apparatus for dual pass adaptive tessellation


dunno if this one is related to Xenos at all:
Method and apparatus for hierarchical Z buffering and stenciling

enjoy :smile:
Marco

 

[LunchBox]

kewl find

can anyone translate it layman?

 

[Deepak]

nAo, you moved to UK from Italy?

 

[Shifty Geezer]

I remember hearing he's working on Heavenly Sword with Ninja Theory.

 

[Urian]

Has Microsoft any rights in this technology or ATI can use it in the system that they want?

 

[3dcgi]

The technology belongs to Ati. No company in this situation would give up the right to improve on technology they created. By licensing they also give Microsoft the right to use the technology. I'm sure there are a few finer details of the agreement, but I'm pretty confident that what I'm saying is correct.