Inventor

BROWN PATRICK R

US49 patents

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BROWN PATRICK R

NVIDIA CORP

Multi-sample surface processing using one sample

Floating point buffer system and method for use during programmable fragment processing in a graphics pipeline

Graphics API with branching capabilities

Integer-based functionality in a graphics shading language

System, method and computer program product for programmable fragment processing in a graphics pipeline

Parameter buffer objects for shader parameters in a graphics library

Feedback and record of transformed vertices in a graphics library

Texture arrays in a graphics library

Methods and systems for processing a geometry shader program developed in a high-level shading language

Loading integer-based data into a graphics processing system

Methods and systems for processing a geometry shader program developed in a high-level shading language

Storage and support for large amounts of constant data in a graphics library

System and method for converting a vertex program to a binary format capable of being executed by a hardware graphics pipeline

Techniques for maintaining atomicity and ordering for pixel shader operations

Techniques for maintaining atomicity and ordering for pixel shader operations

Techniques for maintaining atomicity and ordering for pixel shader operations

System, method, and computer program product for redistributing a multi-sample processing workload between threads

System and method for converting a vertex program to a binary format capable of being executed by a hardware graphics pipeline

Multi-sample surface processing using sample subsets

System, method and computer program product for programmable fragment processing

Techniques for maintaining atomicity and ordering for pixel shader operations

System, method, and computer program product for accessing multi-sample surfaces

Managing memory regions to support sparse mappings

Surface resource view hash for coherent cache operations in texture processing hardware

BOLZ JEFFREY A

GPU work creation and stateless graphics in OPENGL

Memory coherency in graphics command streams and shaders

Global stores and atomic operations

Image loads, stores and atomic operations

Bindless texture and image API

BROWN PATRICK R

Unified assembly instruction set for graphics processing

Unified assembly instruction set for graphics processing

Indexed access to texture buffer objects using a graphics library

Tessellation shader inter-thread coordination

DULUK JR JEROME F

Methods to facilitate primitive batching

Shader program headers

Pixel shader output map

Hardware for parallel command list generation

HAKURA ZIYAD S

Cull before vertex attribute fetch and vertex lighting

Cull before vertex attribute fetch and vertex lighting

WEELPAL AG

Shelf storage system

Rail trackway fitted with braking devices

MCALLISTER DAVID KIRK

Zero-bandwidth clears

Index-based zero-bandwidth clears

DULUK JR JEROME FRANCIS

Method macro expander

State shadowing to support a multi-threaded driver environment

IBM

Quadrant-based two-dimensional memory manager

INTEL CORP

Arrangements for antialiasing coverage computation

KILGARD MARK J

System and method for path rendering with multiple stencil samples per color sample

MASSACHUSETTS INST TECHNOLOGY

Transparent luminescent displays enabled by electric-field-induced quenching of photoluminescent pixels