Paul S. Heckbert has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at NVIDIA . The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in April 2015. Paul S. Heckbert ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Paul S. Heckbert in Pittsburgh, PA, US.
Patents per Year Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2015 Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2007. peak 3 2006: 1 patents 2006 2007: 3 patents 2007 2008: 1 patents 2008 2009: 2 patents 2009 2010: 3 patents 2010 2011: 3 patents 2011 2012: 1 patents 2012 2015: 1 patents 2015
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Showing 1–15 of 15 patents
Patent # Title Co-Inventors Date Approx Value ⓘ
9007389
Texture map component optimization
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2015-04-14
$9,074,000
8340423
Enhancing digital image mosaics using region-statistics
Stephen D. Zelinka
2012-12-25
8031204
Font filter using bilinear interpolation
John W. Berendsen
2011-10-04
$17,347,000
7982745
Trilinear optimization for texture filtering
Walter E. Donovan
2011-07-19
$23,388,000
7884831
Reconfigurable high-performance texture pipeline with advanced filtering
Alexander L. Minkin , Joel J. McCormack , Michael J. M. Toksvig , Luke Y. Chang , Karim M. Abdalla +4 more
2011-02-08
$12,175,000
7852347
Texture map pixel pairing optimization
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2010-12-14
$10,181,000
7773092
Texture map coverage optimization
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2010-08-10
$7,941,000
7649538
Reconfigurable high performance texture pipeline with advanced filtering
Alexander L. Minkin , Joel J. McCormack , Michael J. M. Toksvig , Luke Y. Chang , Karim M. Abdalla +4 more
2010-01-19
$14,923,000
7595806
Method and system for implementing level of detail filtering in a cube mapping application
Michael J. M. Toksvig , William Parsons Newhall, Jr.
2009-09-29
$50,476,000
7586496
Shorter footprints for anisotropic texture filtering
Walter E. Donovan
2009-09-08
$16,429,000
7369136
Computing anisotropic texture mapping parameters
Stuart F. Oberman
2008-05-06
$11,930,000
7221371
Shorter footprints for anisotropic texture filtering
Walter E. Donovan
2007-05-22
$24,444,000
7193627
Trilinear optimization for texture filtering
Walter E. Donovan
2007-03-20
$38,118,000
7167183
Reorganized anisotropic sampling order
Walter E. Donovan , Anders M. Kugler , William Parsons Newhall, Jr.
2007-01-23
$57,984,000
6995767
Trilinear optimization for texture filtering
Walter E. Donovan
2006-02-07
$60,353,000