Varying Image Quality Rendering in Sort Middle Architecture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Sort-middle architectures in electronics maintain constant image quality across entire displays, leading to significant resource consumption in areas not viewed by users, limiting overall graphics architecture throughput.
Innovation Solution
Divide the display into sections and assign varying image quality parameters to each section, allowing the graphics system to render images at different quality levels based on assigned parameters, which can be adjusted in response to user viewing inputs from cameras or imaging devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If constant image quality is maintained across the entire display, then image quality is preserved, but resource consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by dividing the display into multiple regions and assigning different image quality parameters to each region. The graphics system renders images at high quality in regions where users are likely to view (e.g., center regions) and at lower quality in peripheral regions, thereby maintaining acceptable image quality overall while significantly reducing resource consumption in areas that consume excessive resources.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the display into multiple distinct regions and processes each region with different quality settings. This segmentation allows the graphics architecture to apply varying levels of rendering effort to different portions of the display, optimizing the balance between image quality and resource consumption by treating different spatial zones differently rather than uniformly.
2Manufacturing precision
If constant image quality is maintained across the entire display, then image quality is preserved, but graphics architecture throughput is limited
Solution Approach 1:
By applying local quality variations across different display regions, the patent enables the graphics architecture to process certain regions more quickly with reduced quality settings while maintaining high quality in critical viewing areas. This differential processing approach increases overall graphics architecture throughput by reducing the total computational burden without significantly impacting the user's visual experience.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamic quality adjustment by varying image quality parameters across different regions and potentially over time based on viewing conditions. This dynamic approach allows the graphics system to adaptively allocate processing resources, improving throughput by shifting quality levels dynamically rather than maintaining a static constant quality across the entire display.
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AI summary
Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for varying image quality rendering in a sort middle architecture. In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially comprising hardware logic, to divide a display into a plurality of sections, assign a plurality of image quality parameters to the plurality of sections, and render images in each of the plurality of sections at a quality level determined at least in part by the image quality parameter assigned to each of the plurality of sections, wherein the plurality of image quality parameters assigned to the plurality of sections vary. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.