Inventor

DONOVAN WALTER E

US62 patents

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DONOVAN WALTER E

NVIDIA CORP

Method and apparatus for displaying data from multiple frame buffers on one or more display devices

System, method and article of manufacture for shadow mapping

Trilinear optimization for texture filtering

Programmable graphics processor for generalized texturing

System, method and article of manufacture for calculating a level of detail (LOD) during computer graphics processing

System, method and article of manufacture for shadow mapping

Decompression of compressed 16 bit data

Modified high dynamic range color decompression

Method and apparatus for displaying image data of a virtual desktop from one or more frame buffers onto a display screen

Method and apparatus for providing explicit weights for texture filtering

System, method and computer program product for providing arbitrary texture filtering

System, method and article of manufacture for shadow mapping

Pixel load instruction for a programmable graphics processor

Position conflict detection and avoidance in a programmable graphics processor

Shader pixel storage in a graphics memory

Programmable graphics system and method using flexible, high-precision data formats

Two component texture map compression

Filtering unit for floating-point texture data

Method and apparatus for sampling non-power of two dimension texture maps

Low dynamic range 3-channel color compression

Low dynamic range 3-channel color decompression

Block linear memory ordering of texture data

Modified high dynamic range color decompression

Pixel load instruction for a programmable graphics processor

Trilinear optimization for texture filtering

Method and system for implementing programmable texture lookups from texture coordinate sets

Decompression of 16 bit data using predictor values

Method and apparatus for displaying data from multiple frame buffers on a single display device

Method and apparatus for sampling non-power of two dimension texture maps

System, method and computer program product for using an arbitrary quantity as texture address

System, method and article of manufacture for a compressed texture format that is efficiently accessible

Trilinear optimization for texture filtering

Shorter footprints for anisotropic texture filtering

Reorganized anisotropic sampling order

Programmable graphics processor for generalized texturing

Using font filtering engines for texture blitting

Method and apparatus for using non-power of two dimension texture maps

Coordinate wrapping for anisotropic filtering of non-power of two textures

DONOVAN WALTER E

Alpha-to-coverage value determination using virtual samples

Compression of 16 bit data using predictor values

Method and system for implementing compressed normal maps

Method and system for quantizing and squeezing base values of associated tiles in an image

Block linear memory ordering of texture data techniques

SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC

Perspective correction of texture in graphics by adaptive approximation

Apparatus and method for direct calculation of clip region

MICRON TECHNOLOGIES INC

Method and apparatus for performing chroma key, transparency and fog operations

MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC

Method and apparatus for performing post-process antialiasing of polygon edges

RENDITION INC

Pixel engine pipeline for a 3D graphics accelerator

MIGDAL CHRISTOPHER J

Systems and methods for smooth transitions to bi-cubic magnification

MOLNAR STEVEN E

Alpha-to-coverage using virtual samples