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Dale L. Kirkland

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Showing 26–50 of 55 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9436969 Time slice processing of tessellation and geometry shaders Ziyad S. Hakura, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Johnny S. Rhoades, Cynthia Ann Edgeworth Allison, Karim M. Abdalla 2016-09-06
9342311 Techniques for adaptively generating bounding boxes Ziyad S. Hakura, Pierre Souillot, Cynthia Ann Edgeworth Allison, Rouslan Dimitrov 2016-05-17
9336002 Data structures for efficient tiled rendering Ziyad S. Hakura, Pierre Souillot, Cynthia Ann Edgeworth Allison 2016-05-10
9286659 Multi-sample surface processing using sample subsets Alexander L. Minkin, Henry Packard Moreton, Yury Uralsky, Eric B. Lum, Steven James Heinrich +5 more 2016-03-15
9269179 System, method, and computer program product for generating primitive specific attributes Ziyad S. Hakura, Yury Uralsky, Tyson J. Bergland, Cyril Crassin, Henry Packard Moreton 2016-02-23
9262797 Multi-sample surface processing using one sample Alexander L. Minkin, Henry Packard Moreton, Yury Uralsky, Eric B. Lum, Steven James Heinrich +5 more 2016-02-16
9183609 Programmable blending in multi-threaded processing units Rui M. Bastos, Mark J. Kilgard, William Craig McKnight, Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Pierre Souillot +4 more 2015-11-10
9142040 System, method, and computer program product for processing graphics data associated with shading Emmett M. Kilgariff, Tyson J. Bergland, Rui M. Bastos, Christian Rouet 2015-09-22
8917271 Redistribution of generated geometric primitives Johnny S. Rhoades, Ziyad S. Hakura, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Cynthia Ann Edgeworth Allison, Karl M. Wurstner +1 more 2014-12-23
8760460 Hardware-managed virtual buffers using a shared memory for load distribution Emmett M. Kilgariff, Steven E. Molnar, Sean J. Treichler, Johnny S. Rhoades, Gernot Schaufler +3 more 2014-06-24
8749564 Barrier commands in a cache tiling architecture Ziyad S. Hakura 2014-06-10
8704836 Distributing primitives to multiple rasterizers Johnny S. Rhoades, Steven E. Molnar, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Michael C. Shebanow, Ziyad S. Hakura +1 more 2014-04-22
8704826 Primitive re-ordering between world-space and screen-space pipelines with buffer limited processing Ziyad S. Hakura, Robert Ohannessian, Cynthia Ann Edgeworth Allison 2014-04-22
7616200 System for reducing aliasing on a display device Steven James Heinrich, Mark Mosley, Clifford A. Whitmore, James Leroy Deming, Stewart Glenn Carlton +2 more 2009-11-10
7466319 System and method for fast gradient pixel clears in graphics rendering James Leroy Deming, William Craig McKnight 2008-12-16
6948087 Wide instruction word graphics processor Vernon R. Brethour, William Lazenby, Gary Shelton 2005-09-20
6894700 Multisampling dithering with shuffle tables James Leroy Deming 2005-05-17
6765588 Multisample dithering with shuffle tables James Leroy Deming 2004-07-20
6700576 Variable stride circle rendering apparatus and method William Lazenby, Steven James Heinrich 2004-03-02
6677954 Graphics request buffer caching method Allen Jensen, Harald Jean Smit 2004-01-13
6674440 Graphics processor for stereoscopically displaying a graphical image James Leroy Deming 2004-01-06
6642928 Multi-processor graphics accelerator James Leroy Deming, Matt E. Buckelew, Clifford A. Whitmore, Steven James Heinrich, Timothy S. Johnson 2003-11-04
6577316 Wide instruction word graphics processor Vernon R. Brethour, William Lazenby, Gary Shelton 2003-06-10
6535216 Multi-processor graphics accelerator James Leroy Deming, Matt E. Buckelew, Clifford A. Whitmore, Steven James Heinrich, Timothy S. Johnson 2003-03-18
6476816 Multi-processor graphics accelerator James Leroy Deming, Matt E. Buckelew, Clifford A. Whitmore, Steven James Heinrich, Timothy S. Johnson 2002-11-05