Issued Patents All Time
Showing 25 most recent of 89 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8463951 | Unified driver architecture device identifier strategy | — | 2013-06-11 |
| 8180943 | Method and apparatus for latency based thread scheduling | — | 2012-05-15 |
| 7999801 | System and method of detecting rotated displays | — | 2011-08-16 |
| 7598948 | System and method of detecting rotated displays | — | 2009-10-06 |
| 7136068 | Texture cache for a computer graphics accelerator | Gopal Solanki, David B. Kirk | 2006-11-14 |
| 7109996 | Apparatus and method for rendering characters into a memory | — | 2006-09-19 |
| 7038692 | Method and apparatus for providing a vertex cache | David B. Kirk | 2006-05-02 |
| 6725457 | Semaphore enhancement to improve system performance | Rick M. Iwamoto | 2004-04-20 |
| 6691180 | Apparatus for accelerating the rendering of images | Rick M. Iwamoto, Stephen Johnson | 2004-02-10 |
| 6628290 | Graphics pipeline selectively providing multiple pixels or multiple textures | David B. Kirk, Gopal Solanki, Walter E. Donovan, Joe L. Yeun | 2003-09-30 |
| 6446186 | Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for mapping physical memory in a virtual address system | Don Bittel | 2002-09-03 |
| 6421059 | Apparatus and method for rendering characters into a memory | — | 2002-07-16 |
| 6333744 | Graphics pipeline including combiner stages | David B. Kirk, Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Shaun Ho, Walter E. Donovan | 2001-12-25 |
| 6292854 | Method and apparatus for providing high quality audio in a computer system | — | 2001-09-18 |
| 6282587 | Method and apparatus for accelerating the rendering of images | Rick M. Iwamoto, Stephen Johnson | 2001-08-28 |
| 6275243 | Method and apparatus for accelerating the transfer of graphical images | Raymond Lim | 2001-08-14 |
| 6239808 | Method and apparatus for determining texture values of graphical images | David B. Kirk | 2001-05-29 |
| 6226012 | Method and apparatus for accelerating the rendering of graphical images | David B. Kirk | 2001-05-01 |
| 6191794 | Method and apparatus for scaling texture maps for graphical images | David S. Schmenk, David Kirk | 2001-02-20 |
| 6181352 | Graphics pipeline selectively providing multiple pixels or multiple textures | David B. Kirk, Gopal Solanki, Walter E. Donovan, Joe L. Yeun | 2001-01-30 |
| 6141741 | Computer system with a shared address bus and pipelined write operations | Satyanarayana Nishtala, Michael G. Lavelle, Thomas P. Webber, Daniel E. Lenoski, Peter A. Mehring +2 more | 2000-10-31 |
| 6092124 | Method and apparatus for accelerating the rendering of images | Rick M. Iwamoto, Stephen Johnson | 2000-07-18 |
| 6081854 | System for providing fast transfers to input/output device by assuring commands from only one application program reside in FIFO | David S. H. Rosenthal | 2000-06-27 |
| 6075544 | Method and apparatus for accelerating rendering by coalescing data accesses | Chris Malachowsky, David Kirk | 2000-06-13 |
| 6065071 | Method and apparatus for trapping unimplemented operations in input/output devices | David S. H. Rosenthal | 2000-05-16 |