Issued Patents All Time
Showing 25 most recent of 41 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9123173 | Method for rasterizing non-rectangular tile groups in a raster stage of a graphics pipeline | Justin S. Legakis, Franklin C. Crow, John S. Montrym | 2015-09-01 |
| 8947432 | Accelerated rendering with temporally interleaved details | Jonathan Bakdash, Qi Mo, David Patrick Luebke | 2015-02-03 |
| 8933933 | Optimizing a graphics rendering pipeline using early Z-mode | Mark J. French, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Steven E. Molnar, Walter R. Steiner, Adam Clark Weitkemper | 2015-01-13 |
| 8928676 | Method for parallel fine rasterization in a raster stage of a graphics pipeline | Walter R. Steiner, Franklin C. Crow, Craig M. Wittenbrink, Roger L. Allen | 2015-01-06 |
| 8854364 | Tight depth range occlusion prediction system and method | — | 2014-10-07 |
| 8692844 | Method and system for efficient antialiased rendering | Steven E. Molnar, David B. Kirk, John S. Montrym | 2014-04-08 |
| 8390619 | Occlusion prediction graphics processing system and method | Svetoslav D. Tzvetkov | 2013-03-05 |
| 8294714 | Accelerated rendering with temporally interleaved details | Jonathan Bakdash, Qi Mo, David Patrick Luebke | 2012-10-23 |
| 8269769 | Occlusion prediction compression system and method | Svetoslav D. Tzvetkov | 2012-09-18 |
| 7995056 | Culling data selection system and method | — | 2011-08-09 |
| 7554546 | Stippled lines using direct distance evaluation | Franklin C. Crow, John M. Danskin | 2009-06-30 |
| 7292242 | Clipping with addition of vertices to existing primitives | Craig M. Wittenbrink, Henry Packard Moreton, John S. Montrym, Vimal Parikh | 2007-11-06 |
| 7221368 | Stippled lines using direct distance evaluation | Franklin C. Crow, John M. Danskin | 2007-05-22 |
| 7170513 | System and method for display list occlusion branching | Matthew J. Craighead, Mark J. Kilgard, Edward A. Hutchins, Cass W. Everitt | 2007-01-30 |
| 7068272 | System, method and article of manufacture for Z-value and stencil culling prior to rendering in a computer graphics processing pipeline | James M. Van Dyke, Jim E. Margeson, III | 2006-06-27 |
| 7064763 | Single semiconductor graphics platform | John Erik Lindholm, Simon Moy, Kevin Dawallu, Mingjian Yang, John S. Montrym +4 more | 2006-06-20 |
| 7050055 | Single semiconductor graphics platform with blending and fog capabilities | John Erik Lindholm, Simon Moy, Kevin Dawallu, Mingjian Yang, John S. Montrym +4 more | 2006-05-23 |
| 7034829 | Masking system and method for a graphics processing framework embodied on a single semiconductor platform | John Erik Lindholm, Simon Moy, Kevin Dawallu, Mingjian Yang, John S. Montrym +4 more | 2006-04-25 |
| 7023437 | System and method for accelerating graphics processing using a post-geometry data stream during multiple-pass rendering | Edward C. Greene, Emmett M. Kilgariff, Svetoslav D. Tzvetkov | 2006-04-04 |
| 7002577 | Clipping system and method for a single graphics semiconductor platform | John Erik Lindholm, Simon Moy, Kevin Dawallu, Mingjian Yang, John S. Montrym +4 more | 2006-02-21 |
| 6992669 | Integrated graphics processing unit with antialiasing | John S. Montrym, Steven E. Molnar | 2006-01-31 |
| 6992667 | Single semiconductor graphics platform system and method with skinning, swizzling and masking capabilities | John Erik Lindholm, Simon Moy, Kevin Dawallu, Mingjian Yang, John S. Montrym +4 more | 2006-01-31 |
| 6894689 | Occlusion culling method and apparatus for graphics systems | Edward C. Greene, Paolo E. Sabella, John M. Danskin, James M. Van Dyke | 2005-05-17 |
| 6765575 | Clip-less rasterization using line equation-based traversal | Nicholas J. Foskett, Matthew Nicholas Papakipos | 2004-07-20 |
| 6734861 | System, method and article of manufacture for an interlock module in a computer graphics processing pipeline | James M. Van Dyke, James E. Margeson, III, John S. Montrym | 2004-05-11 |