Adaptive multi-resolution for graphics

Abstract

An embodiment may include an application processor, persistent storage media coupled to the application processor, and a graphics subsystem coupled to the application processor. The system may further include any of a performance analyzer to analyze a performance of the graphics subsystem to provide performance analysis information, a content-based depth analyzer to analyze content to provide content-based depth analysis information, a focus analyzer to analyze a focus area to provide focus analysis information, an edge analyzer to provide edge analysis information, a frame analyzer to provide frame analysis information, and/or a variance analyzer to analyze respective amounts of variance for the frame. The system may further include a workload adjuster to adjust a workload of the graphics subsystem based on the analysis information. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a set of application programming instructions, which when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to:
 identify one or more values that are to be accessed during frame generation; and   assign a first shading rate to a current region of a current frame based on the one or more values,   wherein the current region is to share a temporal and spatial association with a previous region of a previous frame that was previously shaded at a second shading rate higher than the first shading rate, wherein the previous region is identified as being shadeable at a lower shading rate than the second shading rate based on having a color coherence throughout the previous region, and wherein the current region has the color coherence.   
     
     
         2 . The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of  claim 1 , wherein the color coherence comprises the current region and the previous region being a same color. 
     
     
         3 . The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of  claim 1 , wherein the color coherence is to include an identification of similar colors. 
     
     
         4 . The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of  claim 1 , wherein the color coherence is to include an identification of a same color. 
     
     
         5 . The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of  claim 1 , wherein the application programming instructions, when executed, cause the computing device to assign a third shading rate to another region of the current frame based on the one or more values. 
     
     
         6 . The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of  claim 5 , wherein the third shading rate is different from the first shading rate. 
     
     
         7 . A computing system comprising:
 a graphics processor;   a central processing unit; and   a memory including a set of application programming instructions, which when executed by one or more of the graphics processor or the central processing unit, cause the computing system to:   identify one or more values that are to be accessed during frame generation; and   assign a first shading rate to a current region of a current frame based on the one or more values,   wherein the current region is to share a temporal and spatial association with a previous region of a previous frame that was previously shaded at a second shading rate higher than the first shading rate, wherein the previous region is identified as being shadeable at a lower shading rate than the second shading rate based on having a color coherence throughout the previous region, and wherein the current region has the color coherence.   
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 7 , wherein the color coherence comprises the current region and the previous region being a same color. 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 7 , wherein the color coherence is to include an identification of similar colors. 
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 7 , wherein the color coherence is to include an identification of a same color. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 7 , wherein the application programming instructions, when executed, cause the computing system to assign a third shading rate to another region of the current frame based on the one or more values. 
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein the third shading rate is different from the first shading rate. 
     
     
         13 . A method comprising:
 identifying one or more values that are to be accessed during frame generation; and   assigning a first shading rate to a current region of a current frame based on the one or more values,   wherein the current region is to share a temporal and spatial association with a previous region of a previous frame that was previously shaded at a second shading rate higher than the first shading rate, wherein the previous region is identified as being shadeable at a lower shading rate than the second shading rate based on having a color coherence throughout the previous region, and wherein the current region has the color coherence.   
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the color coherence comprises the current region and the previous region being a same color. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the color coherence is to include an identification of similar colors. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 13 , wherein the color coherence is to include an identification of a same color. 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 13 , further comprising assigning a third shading rate to another region of the current frame based on the one or more values. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 17 , wherein the third shading rate is different from the first shading rate.