Inventor

TANNENBAUM DAVID C

US39 patents

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TANNENBAUM DAVID C

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Method and apparatus for displaying multiple devices on shared screen

Efficient interface and transport mechanism for binding bindless shader programs to run-time specified graphics pipeline configurations and objects

Vertex attribute compression and decompression in hardware

Method and apparatus for graphics driver optimization using daemon-based resources

Systems and methods of adaptive, variable-rate, hybrid ray tracing

Lightweight, low overhead debug bus

System and method for maintaining data in a low-power structure

Methods and apparatus for pixel packing

Method and apparatus for the automation of variable rate shading in a GPU driver context

Flexible-access instructions for efficient access of ML data

Methods and apparatus for implementing cache policies in a graphics processing unit

Highly flexible performance counter and system debug module

Efficient redundant coverage discard mechanism to reduce pixel shader work in a tile-based graphics rendering pipeline

Central arbitration scheme for a highly efficient interconnection topology in a GPU

Methods and apparatus for atomic operations with multiple processing paths

Shader accessible configurable binning subsystem

Method for performing shader occupancy for small primitives

Power saving branch modes in hardware

IBM

Context management in a graphics system

Decision variable hardware logic and processing methods for graphics display system

Flexible memory controller for graphics applications

Picking function for a pipeline graphics system using hierarchical graphics structures

Method and apparatus for determining the drawing primitives that are visible in a pick aperture of a graphics system

Method and apparatus for displaying primitives processed by a parallel processor system in a sequential order

Multi-processor graphics display system for displaying hierarchical data structures

Rendering of non-opaque media using the p-buffer to account for polarization parameters

Attribute filter for computer graphics applications

NVIDIA CORP

Method and apparatus for generation of programmable shader configuration information from state-based control information and program instructions

System and method for dynamically reducing power consumption of floating-point logic

System, method and computer program product for an improved programmable vertex processing model with instruction set

Culling before setup in viewport and culling unit

Cull before attribute read

Vertex processing unit supporting vertex texture mapping

Logic circuitry configurable to perform 32-bit or dual 16-bit floating-point operations

System and method for delivering multiple data streams via multiple buses

MICROSOFT CORP

Dual mode device and method for generating vector cross products or dot products

Device, method, and system for generating per-pixel light values using texture parameters

OBERMAN STUART

Fused multiply-add functional unit

SILICON GRAPHICS INC

Method and device for associating a pixel with one of a plurality of regions in a logarithm or cosine space