Inventor

VAN HOOK TIMOTHY J

US45 patents

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VAN HOOK TIMOTHY J

NINTENDO CO LTD

Graphics system with copy out conversions between embedded frame buffer and main memory

Method and apparatus for interleaved processing of direct and indirect texture coordinates in a graphics system

Method and apparatus for obtaining a scalar value directly from a vector register

Method and apparatus for interleaved processing of direct and indirect texture coordinates in a graphics system

Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics system

Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics system

Graphics pipeline token synchronization

Vertex cache for 3D computer graphics

High performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing

Video game system and coprocessor for video game system

Video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing

High performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing

Interface for a high performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing

Method and apparatus for obtaining a scalar value directly from a vector register

High performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing

Graphics system with copy out conversions between embedded frame buffer and main memory for producing a streaming video image as a texture on a displayed object image

Graphics system with embedded frame butter having reconfigurable pixel formats

Graphics system with embedded frame buffer having reconfigurable pixel formats

Graphics system with embedded frame buffer having reconfigurable pixel formats

Method and apparatus for obtaining a scalar value directly from a vector register

SILICON GRAPHICS INC

Preemptive timer multiplexed shared memory access

System and method for the scaling of image streams that use motion vectors

Instruction methods for performing data formatting while moving data between memory and a vector register file

Media coprocessor with graphics video and audio tasks partitioned by time division multiplexing

Method and system for performing floating point operations in unnormalized format using a floating point accumulator

Enhancing texture edges

Antialiasing of silhouette edges

SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC

Central processing unit with integrated graphics functions

Central processing unit with integrated graphics functions

Central processing unit with integrated graphics functions

Graphic system for masking multiple non-contiguous bytes having decode logic to selectively activate each of the control lines based on the mask register bits

Central processing unit with integrated graphics functions

Apparatus and method for direct calculation of clip region

MIPS TECH INC

Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing

Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing

Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing

Providing extended precision in SIMD vector arithmetic operations

Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing

ATI TECHNOLOGIES INC

Method and apparatus for compression and decompression of color data

Memory processing system and method for accessing memory including reordering memory requests to reduce mode switching

Method and apparatus for compression and decompression of Z data

VAN HOOK TIMOTHY J

Providing extended precision in SIMD vector arithmetic operations

Method and apparatus for compression of multi-sampled anti-aliasing color data

Method and apparatus for compression of multi-sampled anti-aliasing color data

ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC

Method and apparatus for interleaved graphics processing