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John W. Howson — 145 Patents

ILImagination Technologies Limited: 140 patents #2 of 280Top 1%
BDBlack & Decker: 5 patents #577 of 2,138Top 30%
St Albans, MD: #1 of 2 inventorsTop 50%
Overall (All Time): #6,603 of 4,157,543Top 1%
145 Patents All Time

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Showing 101–125 of 145 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
10559120 Processing primitives which have unresolved fragments in a graphics processing system 2020-02-11
10510182 Using tiling depth information in hidden surface removal in a graphics processing system Richard Broadhurst, Robert Theed 2019-12-17
10489962 Hybrid hierarchy of bounding and grid structures for ray tracing Gregory Clark, Justin DeCell, Steven J. Clohset 2019-11-26
10453164 Tile based computer graphics Steven Fishwick 2019-10-22
10453250 Graphics processing method and system for processing sub-primitives Xile Yang 2019-10-22
10438397 Reduced acceleration structures for ray tracing systems Luke T. Peterson 2019-10-08
10417807 Hybrid hierarchy of bounding and grid structures for ray tracing Gregory Clark, Justin DeCell, Steven J. Clohset 2019-09-17
10395336 Computing systems and methods for processing graphics data using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space Richard Broadhurst, Steven Fishwick 2019-08-27
10366012 GPU virtualisation Dave Roberts, Mario Sopena Novales 2019-07-30
10366530 Hidden culling in tile-based computer generated images Xile Yang, Simon Fenney 2019-07-30
10339696 On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation with discrete production scheduling Luke T. Peterson 2019-07-02
10332303 Dedicated ray memory for ray tracing in graphics systems Steven J. Clohset, Ali Rabbani 2019-06-25
10311539 Task execution in a SIMD processing unit with parallel groups of processing lanes Jonathan Redshaw, Yoong Chert Foo 2019-06-04
10255653 Task assembly for SIMD processing Andrea Sansottera, Xile Yang, Jonathan Redshaw 2019-04-09
10249085 Graphics processing method and system for processing sub-primitives using sub-primitive indications in a control stream Xile Yang, Andrea Sansottera, Lorenzo Belli, Jonathan Redshaw 2019-04-02
10249016 Graphics processing units and methods using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space Richard Broadhurst, Steven Fishwick 2019-04-02
10242487 On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation Luke T. Peterson 2019-03-26
10217266 Unified rasterization and ray tracing rendering environments Luke T. Peterson, Steven J. Clohset 2019-02-26
10210649 Graphics processing method and system for processing sub-primitives using cached graphics data hierarchy Andrea Sansottera, Xile Yang, Jonathan Redshaw 2019-02-19
10186070 On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation Luke T. Peterson 2019-01-22
9953456 Untransformed display lists in a tile based rendering system 2018-04-24
9934549 Tile-based graphics Steven Fishwick 2018-04-03
9928563 Tile-based graphics Steven Fishwick 2018-03-27
9892547 Tessellating patches of surface data in tile based computer graphics rendering Steven Fishwick 2018-02-13
9818222 Tessellation of patches of surfaces in a tile based rendering system 2017-11-14