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John Brothers — 73 Patents

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Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8736627 Systems and methods for providing a shared buffer in a multiple FIFO environment 2014-05-27
8681162 Systems and methods for video processing Timour Paltashev, Yi-Jung Su, Yang Jiao 2014-03-25
8368701 Metaprocessor for GPU control and synchronization in a multiprocessor environment Timour Paltashev, Boris Prokopenko 2013-02-05
8319774 Constant buffering for a computational core of a programmable graphics processing unit Yang Jiao, Yijung Su 2012-11-27
8275049 Systems and methods of improved motion estimation using a graphics processing unit Zahid Hussain, Jim Xu 2012-09-25
8120608 Constant buffering for a computational core of a programmable graphics processing unit Yang Jiao, Yijung Su 2012-02-21
8082426 Support of a plurality of graphic processing units Timour Paltashev, Boris Prokopenko 2011-12-20
8004533 Graphics input command stream scheduling method and apparatus Hsilin Huang, Boris Prokopenko 2011-08-23
7965296 Systems and methods for storing texture map data Jim Xu, Sibyl Shao 2011-06-21
7911480 Compression of multiple-sample-anti-aliasing tile data in a graphics pipeline 2011-03-22
7880745 Systems and methods for border color handling in a graphics processing unit Jim Xu, Mike Hong 2011-02-01
7755632 GPU internal wait/fence synchronization method and apparatus Hsilin Huang, Boris Prokopenko 2010-07-13
7737983 GPU pipeline multiple level synchronization controller processor and method Timour Paltashev, Hsilin Huang, Boris Prokopenko, Qunfeng (Fred) Liao 2010-06-15
7626521 Decoding control of computational core of programmable graphics processing unit Zahid Hussain, Huy D. Bui 2009-12-01
7626518 Decoding systems and methods in computational core of programmable graphics processing unit Zahid Hussain, Huy D. Bui 2009-12-01
7583268 Graphics pipeline precise interrupt method and apparatus Hsilin Huang, Timour Paltashev 2009-09-01
7551176 Systems and methods for providing shared attribute evaluation circuits in a graphics processing unit Fred Liao 2009-06-23
7545381 Interruptible GPU and method for context saving and restoring Hsilin Huang, Timour Paltashev 2009-06-09
7277098 Apparatus and method of an improved stencil shadow volume operation Jiangming Xu, Wen-Chung Chen, Yuanfeng Wang, Liang Li, Boris Prokopenko 2007-10-02
7030878 Method and apparatus for generating a shadow effect using shadow volumes Jiangming Xu, Wen-Chung Chen, Yuanfeng Wang, Liang Li, Boris Prokopenko 2006-04-18
6417862 Device and method for blending true colors and fog colors to generate display colors Zhou Hong 2002-07-09
6259454 Method and apparatus for interpolative, adaptive illumination in 3D graphics Roger Swanson, Daniel Hung 2001-07-10
6128026 Double buffered graphics and video accelerator having a write blocking memory interface and method of doing the same 2000-10-03