Inventor
LEATHER MARK M
US33 patents
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NINTENDO CO LTD
15 patentsUS7184059B1Feb 27, 2007
Graphics system with copy out conversions between embedded frame buffer and main memory
NINTENDO CO LTD152 citations99
US7002591B1Feb 21, 2006
Method and apparatus for interleaved processing of direct and indirect texture coordinates in a graphics system
NINTENDO CO LTD229 citations99
US6999100B1Feb 14, 2006
Method and apparatus for anti-aliasing in a graphics system
NINTENDO CO LTD146 citations99
US6664958B1Dec 16, 2003
Z-texturing
NINTENDO CO LTD183 citations99
US6636214B1Oct 21, 2003
Method and apparatus for dynamically reconfiguring the order of hidden surface processing based on rendering mode
NINTENDO CO LTD223 citations99
US6618048B1Sep 9, 2003
3D graphics rendering system for performing Z value clamping in near-Z range to maximize scene resolution of visually important Z components
NINTENDO CO LTD152 citations99
US7307638B2Dec 11, 2007
Method and apparatus for interleaved processing of direct and indirect texture coordinates in a graphics system
NINTENDO CO LTD70 citations98
US7176919B2Feb 13, 2007
Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics system
NINTENDO CO LTD134 citations98
US7034828B1Apr 25, 2006
Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics system
NINTENDO CO LTD174 citations98
US6707458B1Mar 16, 2004
Method and apparatus for texture tiling in a graphics system
NINTENDO CO LTD84 citations97
US6825851B1Nov 30, 2004
Method and apparatus for environment-mapped bump-mapping in a graphics system
NINTENDO CO LTD48 citations96
US7317459B2Jan 8, 2008
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
NINTENDO CO LTD21 citations93
US7205999B2Apr 17, 2007
Method and apparatus for environment-mapped bump-mapping in a graphics system
NINTENDO CO LTD24 citations92
US7307640B2Dec 11, 2007
Method and apparatus for efficient generation of texture coordinate displacements for implementing emboss-style bump mapping in a graphics rendering system
NINTENDO CO LTD40 citations91
US6980218B1Dec 27, 2005
Method and apparatus for efficient generation of texture coordinate displacements for implementing emboss-style bump mapping in a graphics rendering system
NINTENDO CO LTD8 citations72
ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
4 patentsUS7633506B1Dec 15, 2009
Parallel pipeline graphics system
ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC113 citations98
US7796133B1Sep 14, 2010
Unified shader
ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC3 citations63
US7920141B2Apr 5, 2011
Method and apparatus for rasterizer interpolation
ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC1 citations52
US7545387B2Jun 9, 2009
Method and apparatus for sampling on a non-power-of-two pixel grid
ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC0 citations52
ATI TECHNOLOGIES INC
4 patentsUS7061495B1Jun 13, 2006
Method and apparatus for rasterizer interpolation
ATI TECHNOLOGIES INC80 citations98
US7075542B1Jul 11, 2006
Selectable multi-performance configuration
ATI TECHNOLOGIES INC52 citations92
US7280119B2Oct 9, 2007
Method and apparatus for sampling on a non-power-of-two pixel grid
ATI TECHNOLOGIES INC7 citations74
US6999098B2Feb 14, 2006
Apparatus for converting floating point values to gamma corrected fixed point values
ATI TECHNOLOGIES INC9 citations74
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC
3 patentsUS10817302B2Oct 27, 2020
Processor support for bypassing vector source operands
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC2 citations72
US12169896B2Dec 17, 2024
Graphics primitives and positions through memory buffers
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC0 citations58
US10474468B2Nov 12, 2019
Indicating instruction scheduling mode for processing wavefront portions
ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC0 citations52
LEATHER MARK M
3 patentsUS8933945B2Jan 13, 2015
Dividing work among multiple graphics pipelines using a super-tiling technique
LEATHER MARK M2 citations60
US8593465B2Nov 26, 2013
Handling of extra contexts for shader constants
LEATHER MARK M3 citations60
US8156314B2Apr 10, 2012
Incremental state updates
LEATHER MARK M0 citations50