Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“A shader is a program that runs on a stage (e.g., a programmable stage) of a processing unit (e.g.,a graphics processing unit (GPU)). In various deployments, for example, shaders provide code for programmablestages of rendering pipelines. In scenarios involving a rendering pipeline, a shader is run ona respective processing unit to perform one or more calculations in connection with rendering a scene fordisplay on a display device.”