A method and apparatus which includes a graphics accelerator, circuitry responsive to pixel texture coordinates to select texels and generate therefrom a texture value for any pixel the color of which is to be modified by a texture, and a cache for texels for use by the circuitry to generate texture...http://www.google.de/patents/US7136068?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7136068 - Texture cache for a computer graphics accelerator
