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Timothy J. Van Hook

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54 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 54 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
6675239 Method and apparatus for providing commands to a command memory Robert S. Mace 2004-01-06
6630933 Method and apparatus for compression and decompression of Z data 2003-10-07
6593929 High performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing Howard Cheng, Anthony P. DeLaurier, Carroll P. Gossett, Robert Moore, Stephen J. Shepard +7 more 2003-07-15
6571328 Method and apparatus for obtaining a scalar value directly from a vector register Yu-Chung C. Liao, Peter A. Sandon, Howard Cheng 2003-05-27
6567426 Preemptive timer multiplexed shared memory access Gulbin Ezer 2003-05-20
6564304 Memory processing system and method for accessing memory including reordering memory requests to reduce mode switching Man Kit Tang 2003-05-13
6556197 High performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing Howard Cheng, Anthony P. DeLaurier, Carroll P. Gossett, Robert Moore, Stephen J. Shepard +7 more 2003-04-29
6549210 Method and apparatus for cache index hashing Anthony P. DeLaurier 2003-04-15
6490652 Method and apparatus for decoupled retrieval of cache miss data Anthony P. DeLaurier 2002-12-03
6353438 Cache organization—direct mapped cache Anthony P. DeLaurier 2002-03-05
6342892 Video game system and coprocessor for video game system Howard Cheng, Anthony P. DeLaurier, Carroll P. Gossett, Robert Moore, Stephen J. Shepard +7 more 2002-01-29
6331856 Video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing Howard Cheng, Anthony P. DeLaurier, Carroll P. Gossett, Robert Moore, Stephen J. Shepard +7 more 2001-12-18
6279099 Central processing unit with integrated graphics functions Leslie D. Kohn, Robert Yung 2001-08-21
6275239 Media coprocessor with graphics video and audio tasks partitioned by time division multiplexing Gulbin Ezer, Sudhaker Rao, Ronald Nicholson 2001-08-14
6266758 Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing Perter Hsu, William A. Huffman, Henry Packard Moreton, Earl A. Killian 2001-07-24
6256655 Method and system for performing floating point operations in unnormalized format using a floating point accumulator Gulbin Ezer, Sudhaker Rao 2001-07-03
6239810 High performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing Howard Cheng, Anthony P. DeLaurier, Carroll P. Gossett, Robert Moore, Stephen J. Shepard +7 more 2001-05-29
6166748 Interface for a high performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing Howard Cheng, Anthony P. DeLaurier, Carroll P. Gossett, Robert Moore, Stephen J. Shepard +7 more 2000-12-26
6075906 System and method for the scaling of image streams that use motion vectors Stephen C. Fenwick, Gregory H. Efland 2000-06-13
5982939 Enhancing texture edges 1999-11-09
5938756 Central processing unit with integrated graphics functions Leslie D. Kohn, Robert Yung 1999-08-17
5933650 Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing Peter Hsu, William A. Huffman, Henry Packard Moreton, Earl A. Killian 1999-08-03
5931945 Graphic system for masking multiple non-contiguous bytes having decode logic to selectively activate each of the control lines based on the mask register bits Robert Yung, Leslie D. Kohn 1999-08-03
5933157 Central processing unit with integrated graphics functions Leslie D. Kohn, Robert Yung 1999-08-03
5864703 Method for providing extended precision in SIMD vector arithmetic operations Peter Hsu, William A. Huffman, Henry Packard Moreton, Earl A. Killian 1999-01-26