Issued Patents All Time
Showing 101–125 of 133 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7697007 | Predicated launching of compute thread arrays | — | 2010-04-13 |
| 7623135 | Method and apparatus for display image adjustment | Michael B. Diamond, David R. Morey, Abraham Benjamin de Waal | 2009-11-24 |
| 7526634 | Counter-based delay of dependent thread group execution | Stephen D. Lew, John R. Nickolls | 2009-04-28 |
| 7167181 | Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor having advanced features | Richard E. Hessel, Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt, George Cuan +19 more | 2007-01-23 |
| 7164426 | Method and apparatus for generating texture | Richard E. Hessel, Joseph P. Grass, Abbas Rashid, Bo Hong, Abraham Mammen | 2007-01-16 |
| 7009605 | System, method and computer program product for generating a shader program | Douglas Sim Dietrich, Jr., Ashutosh Gajanan Rege, Christopher T. Maughan | 2006-03-07 |
| 6771264 | Method and apparatus for performing tangent space lighting and bump mapping in a deferred shading graphics processor | Stephen L. Dodgen, Joseph P. Bratt, Matthew Nicholas Papakipos, Nathan Tuck, Richard E. Hessel | 2004-08-03 |
| 6717576 | Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor having advanced features | Richard E. Hessel, Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt, George Cuan +19 more | 2004-04-06 |
| 6693639 | Graphics processor with pipeline state storage and retrieval | Jack Benkual, Shun Wai Go, Sushma S. Trivedi, Richard E. Hessel, Joseph P. Bratt | 2004-02-17 |
| 6671747 | System, apparatus, method, and computer program for execution-order preserving uncached write combine operation | Jack Benkual, Thomas Y. Ho | 2003-12-30 |
| 6664959 | Method and apparatus for culling in a graphics processor with deferred shading | Stephen L. Dodgen, Richard E. Hessel, Emerson S. Fang, Hengwei Hsu, Jason Redgrave +1 more | 2003-12-16 |
| 6614444 | Apparatus and method for fragment operations in a 3D-graphics pipeline | Sushma S. Trivedi, Sam Ng, Lindy Fung, Richard E. Hessel, Jack Benkual | 2003-09-02 |
| 6597363 | Graphics processor with deferred shading | Richard E. Hessel, Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt, George Cuan +11 more | 2003-07-22 |
| 6577305 | Apparatus and method for performing setup operations in a 3-D graphics pipeline using unified primitive descriptors | Richard E. Hessel, Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, George Cuan, Stephen L. Dodgen +3 more | 2003-06-10 |
| 6577317 | Apparatus and method for geometry operations in a 3D-graphics pipeline | Jack Benkual, Vaughn T. Arnold, Tuan D. Nguyen, Richard E. Hessel, Stephen L. Dodgen +1 more | 2003-06-10 |
| 6552723 | System, apparatus and method for spatially sorting image data in a three-dimensional graphics pipeline | Jason Redgrave, Sushma S. Trivedi, Richard E. Hessel | 2003-04-22 |
| RE38078 | Graphical rendering system using simultaneous parallel query Z-buffer and method therefor | — | 2003-04-15 |
| 6525737 | Graphics processor with pipeline state storage and retrieval | Jack Benkual, Shun Wai Go, Sushma S. Trivedi, Richard E. Hessel, Joseph P. Bratt | 2003-02-25 |
| 6476807 | Method and apparatus for performing conservative hidden surface removal in a graphics processor with deferred shading | Stephen L. Dodgen, Richard E. Hessel, Emerson S. Fang, Hengwei Hsu, Jason Redgrave +1 more | 2002-11-05 |
| 6288730 | Method and apparatus for generating texture | Richard E. Hessel, Joseph P. Grass, Abbas Rashid, Bo Hong, Abraham Mammen | 2001-09-11 |
| 6285378 | Method and apparatus for span and subspan sorting rendering system | — | 2001-09-04 |
| 6268875 | Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor | Richard E. Hessel, Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt, George Cuan +11 more | 2001-07-31 |
| 6229553 | Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor | Richard E. Hessel, Vaughn T. Arnold, Jack Benkual, Joseph P. Bratt, George Cuan +11 more | 2001-05-08 |
| 6166554 | Flexible electrical test fixture for integrated circuits on prototype and production printed circuit boards | Larry D. Webster, Ehud Pardo | 2000-12-26 |
| 6005403 | Flexible electrical test fixture for integrated circuits on prototype and production printed circuit boards | Larry D. Webster, Ehud Pardo | 1999-12-21 |