Issued Patents All Time
Showing 51–75 of 84 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9569880 | Adaptive anisotropic filtering | Prosun Chatterjee, Joy Chandra, Benjamin Pletcher | 2017-02-14 |
| 8803902 | Computing level of detail for anisotropic filtering | — | 2014-08-12 |
| 8773448 | List texture | Paul Lalonde, Kiril Vidimce | 2014-07-08 |
| 7978194 | Method and apparatus for hierarchical Z buffering and stenciling | Stephen L. Morein | 2011-07-12 |
| 7924281 | System and method for determining illumination of a pixel by shadow planes | Stephen L. Morein, Michael Doggett, Jocelyn Houle | 2011-04-12 |
| 7656417 | Appearance determination using fragment reduction | Laurent Lefebvre | 2010-02-02 |
| 7538765 | Method and apparatus for generating hierarchical depth culling characteristics | Laurent Lefebvre, Stephen L. Morein | 2009-05-26 |
| 7336283 | Efficient hardware A-buffer using three-dimensional allocation of fragment memory | Joel J. McCormack, Norman Paul Jouppi | 2008-02-26 |
| 6768491 | Barycentric centroid sampling method and apparatus | Laurent Lefebvre | 2004-07-27 |
| 6680735 | Method for correcting gradients of irregular spaced graphic data | Yin Wu, Hugh C. Lauer, Vishal C. Bhatia, Jeffrey Lussier | 2004-01-20 |
| 6654012 | Early ray termination in a parallel pipelined volume rendering system | Hugh C. Lauer, Charidimos E. Gasparakis, Vikram Simha, Kenneth W. Correll | 2003-11-25 |
| 6633297 | System and method for producing an antialiased image using a merge buffer | Joel J. McCormack, Keith Farkas, Norman Paul Jouppi, Robert McNamara | 2003-10-14 |
| 6614447 | Method and apparatus for correcting opacity values in a rendering pipeline | Vishal C. Bhatia, Charidimos E. Gasparakis | 2003-09-02 |
| 6424346 | Method and apparatus for mapping samples in a rendering pipeline | Kenneth W. Correll, Vikram Simha, Charidimos E. Gasparakis, Hugh C. Lauer | 2002-07-23 |
| 6421057 | Configurable volume rendering pipeline | Hugh C. Lauer, James M. Knittel, Kenneth W. Correll, Charidimos E. Gasparakis, Vikram Simha +1 more | 2002-07-16 |
| 6369816 | Method for modulating volume samples using gradient magnitudes and complex functions over a range of values | James M. Knittel, Charidimos E. Gasparakis | 2002-04-09 |
| 6359619 | Method and apparatus for multi-phase rendering | Richard C. Waters, Thouis R. Jones, Ronald N. Perry | 2002-03-19 |
| 6329977 | Pre-filtered antialiased lines using distance functions | Robert McNamara, Joel J. McCormack, Norman Paul Jouppi, James T. Claffey, James M. Knittel | 2001-12-11 |
| 6310620 | Method and apparatus for volume rendering with multiple depth buffers | Hugh C. Lauer | 2001-10-30 |
| 6112318 | Performance counters controlled by programmable logic | Norman Paul Jouppi, Joel J. McCormack, Mark O. Yeager | 2000-08-29 |
| 5870109 | Graphic system with read/write overlap detector | Joel J. McCormack, Christopher C. Gianos, Andrew V. Hoar, Norman Paul Jouppi, James T. Claffey | 1999-02-09 |
| 5781201 | Method for providing improved graphics performance through atypical pixel storage in video memory | Joel J. McCormack, Robert McNamara, Christopher C. Gianos | 1998-07-14 |
| 5696945 | Method for quickly painting and copying shallow pixels on a deep frame buffer | Robert McNamara, Christopher C. Gianos, Joel J. McCormack | 1997-12-09 |
| 5559953 | Method for increasing the performance of lines drawn into a framebuffer memory | Robert McNamara, Christopher C. Gianos, Joel J. McCormack | 1996-09-24 |
| 5396263 | Window dependent pixel datatypes in a computer video graphics system | James L. Pappas, Robert C. Rose | 1995-03-07 |