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HOWSON JOHN W
GB104 patents
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IMAGINATION TECH LTD
47 patentsUS10395336B2Aug 27, 2019
Computing systems and methods for processing graphics data using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space
IMAGINATION TECH LTD14 citations94
US9953456B2Apr 24, 2018
Untransformed display lists in a tile based rendering system
IMAGINATION TECH LTD12 citations93
US11922555B2Mar 5, 2024
Data structures, methods and tiling engines for hierarchically storing tiling information in a graphics processing system
IMAGINATION TECH LTD3 citations84
US11348197B2May 31, 2022
Computing systems and methods for processing graphics data using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space
IMAGINATION TECH LTD5 citations84
US11348302B2May 31, 2022
Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering complexity using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space
IMAGINATION TECH LTD4 citations84
US10902550B2Jan 26, 2021
Computing systems and methods for processing graphics data using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space
IMAGINATION TECH LTD7 citations84
US10885696B2Jan 5, 2021
Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering complexity using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space
IMAGINATION TECH LTD5 citations84
US10565772B2Feb 18, 2020
Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering complexity using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space
IMAGINATION TECH LTD10 citations84
US10438397B2Oct 8, 2019
Reduced acceleration structures for ray tracing systems
IMAGINATION TECH LTD10 citations84
US10339696B2Jul 2, 2019
On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation with discrete production scheduling
IMAGINATION TECH LTD3 citations84
US10217266B2Feb 26, 2019
Unified rasterization and ray tracing rendering environments
IMAGINATION TECH LTD7 citations84
US9105131B2Aug 11, 2015
Multi-core geometry processing in a tile based rendering system
IMAGINATION TECH LTD6 citations84
US9030474B2May 12, 2015
Untransformed display lists in a tile based rendering system
IMAGINATION TECH LTD4 citations84
US11282162B2Mar 22, 2022
Tile based computer graphics
IMAGINATION TECH LTD3 citations83
US10489962B1Nov 26, 2019
Hybrid hierarchy of bounding and grid structures for ray tracing
IMAGINATION TECH LTD7 citations83
US10453164B2Oct 22, 2019
Tile based computer graphics
IMAGINATION TECH LTD6 citations83
US9633405B2Apr 25, 2017
Tile based computer graphics
IMAGINATION TECH LTD5 citations83
US8368691B2Feb 5, 2013
Untransformed display lists in a tile based rendering system
IMAGINATION TECH LTD3 citations74
US11710268B2Jul 25, 2023
Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering complexity using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space
IMAGINATION TECH LTD2 citations73
US11657565B2May 23, 2023
Hidden culling in tile-based computer generated images
IMAGINATION TECH LTD1 citations73
US11587281B2Feb 21, 2023
Unified rasterization and ray tracing rendering environments
IMAGINATION TECH LTD1 citations73
US11263806B2Mar 1, 2022
Graphics processing method and system for processing sub-primitives
IMAGINATION TECH LTD2 citations73
US10957097B2Mar 23, 2021
Allocation of primitives to primitive blocks
IMAGINATION TECH LTD1 citations73
US10909745B2Feb 2, 2021
Unified rasterization and ray tracing rendering environments
IMAGINATION TECH LTD3 citations73
US10453250B2Oct 22, 2019
Graphics processing method and system for processing sub-primitives
IMAGINATION TECH LTD2 citations73
US10249016B2Apr 2, 2019
Graphics processing units and methods using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space
IMAGINATION TECH LTD3 citations73
US10186070B2Jan 22, 2019
On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation
IMAGINATION TECH LTD2 citations73
US11527040B2Dec 13, 2022
Tessellating patches of surface data in tile based computer graphics rendering
IMAGINATION TECH LTD1 citations72
US10685420B2Jun 16, 2020
Tile based computer graphics
IMAGINATION TECH LTD1 citations72
US10366012B2Jul 30, 2019
GPU virtualisation
IMAGINATION TECH LTD1 citations72
US10249085B2Apr 2, 2019
Graphics processing method and system for processing sub-primitives using sub-primitive indications in a control stream
IMAGINATION TECH LTD6 citations72
US10210649B2Feb 19, 2019
Graphics processing method and system for processing sub-primitives using cached graphics data hierarchy
IMAGINATION TECH LTD3 citations72
US11610358B2Mar 21, 2023
Data structures, methods and tiling engines for hierarchically storing tiling information in a graphics processing system
IMAGINATION TECH LTD2 citations71
US11727525B2Aug 15, 2023
Task merging
IMAGINATION TECH LTD2 citations70
US12307597B2May 20, 2025
Assembling primitive data into multi-view primitive blocks in a graphics processing system
IMAGINATION TECH LTD0 citations63
US12243151B2Mar 4, 2025
Reduced acceleration structures for ray tracing systems
IMAGINATION TECH LTD0 citations63
US12217358B2Feb 4, 2025
Untransformed display lists in a tile based rendering system
IMAGINATION TECH LTD0 citations63
US12211136B2Jan 28, 2025
On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation with tile object lists
IMAGINATION TECH LTD0 citations63
US12166954B2Dec 10, 2024
Stereoscopic graphics processing
IMAGINATION TECH LTD0 citations63
US12067681B2Aug 20, 2024
Scalable parallel tessellation
IMAGINATION TECH LTD0 citations63
US11823324B2Nov 21, 2023
Graphics processing method and system for processing sub-primitives
IMAGINATION TECH LTD0 citations63
US11798219B2Oct 24, 2023
Topology preservation in a graphics pipeline by analyzing a geometry shader
IMAGINATION TECH LTD0 citations63
US11677927B2Jun 13, 2023
Stereoscopic graphics processing
IMAGINATION TECH LTD0 citations63
US11676339B2Jun 13, 2023
Scalable parallel tessellation
IMAGINATION TECH LTD0 citations63
US11568592B2Jan 31, 2023
On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation with tile object lists
IMAGINATION TECH LTD0 citations63
US11562533B2Jan 24, 2023
Assembling primitive data into multi-view primitive blocks in a graphics processing system
IMAGINATION TECH LTD0 citations63
US11468620B2Oct 11, 2022
Topology preservation in a graphics pipeline
IMAGINATION TECH LTD0 citations63
HOWSON JOHN W
3 patentsUS9424685B2Aug 23, 2016
Unified rasterization and ray tracing rendering environments
HOWSON JOHN W46 citations97
US8502829B2Aug 6, 2013
Multi-core geometry processing in a tile based rendering system
HOWSON JOHN W13 citations83
US8310487B2Nov 13, 2012
Multi-core geometry processing in a tile based rendering system
HOWSON JOHN W8 citations83
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