Jawed
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Have we seem this patent already?
http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=7075539
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And, can I ask people to be careful about linking US patents? Using the style here, because I found this patent by clicking on a link in another thread, whose link no longer points to the patent intended - instead it points directly to this patent. Nice when you find something interesting. Crap when you wanted to read the original patent.
Jawed
http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=7075539
This floating-point notation is relatively data intensive. Therefore, passing and processing such data can be expensive, particularly, in high bandwidth applications, such as graphics processing. In graphics processing environments, the precision afforded by standard exponential notation (i.e., 32-bit or 64-bit) is frequently excessive. In other words, the precision afforded by standard exponential notation does not meaningfully improve the resultant graphics output.
There is a large embedded base of graphics computational systems that rely upon standard exponential notation. In addition, future graphics computational systems are designed to support standard exponential notation.
In view of the foregoing, it would be highly desirable to develop a technique that is operative in a standard exponential notation computation environment, but afforded enhanced data transport and computation operations through use of a non-standard exponential data format.
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And, can I ask people to be careful about linking US patents? Using the style here, because I found this patent by clicking on a link in another thread, whose link no longer points to the patent intended - instead it points directly to this patent. Nice when you find something interesting. Crap when you wanted to read the original patent.
Jawed