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Patent Title: Storage of clipping plane data in successive bit planes of residual frame buffer memory

Assignee: IBM
Patent Number: US5668979
Issue Date: 09-16-1997
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File Date:01-06-1995


Abstract: A system and method for storing clipping, masking or stenciling plane data in an unused or residual portion of a frame buffer used with a graphics display. The clipping plane data corresponding to the pixels in the displayed portion of the frame buffer are effectively and efficiently stored through a folding type conversion of addresses. High speed address conversion for both rendering and accessing of clipping data is performed by hardware logic devices.

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