Inventor
NELSON SCOTT R
US21 patents
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SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC
16 patentsUS6496187B1Dec 17, 2002
Graphics system configured to perform parallel sample to pixel calculation
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC167 citations99
US6671796B1Dec 30, 2003
Converting an arbitrary fixed point value to a floating point value
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC84 citations97
US6947057B2Sep 20, 2005
Rendering lines with sample weighting
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC71 citations96
US6014144AJan 11, 2000
Rapid computation of local eye vectors in a fixed point lighting unit
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC80 citations96
US6801202B2Oct 5, 2004
Graphics system configured to parallel-process graphics data using multiple pipelines
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC95 citations95
US6359630B1Mar 19, 2002
Graphics system using clip bits to decide acceptance, rejection, clipping
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC105 citations95
US6577312B2Jun 10, 2003
Graphics system configured to filter samples using a variable support filter
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC47 citations92
US6141013AOct 31, 2000
Rapid computation of local eye vectors in a fixed point lighting unit
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC35 citations92
US6650323B2Nov 18, 2003
Graphics system having a super-sampled sample buffer and having single sample per pixel support
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC42 citations91
US5982375ANov 9, 1999
Floating point processor for a three-dimensional graphics accelerator which includes single-pass stereo capability
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC47 citations91
US5914724AJun 22, 1999
Lighting unit for a three-dimensional graphics accelerator with improved handling of incoming color values
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC24 citations91
US6037947AMar 14, 2000
Graphics accelerator with shift count generation for handling potential fixed-point numeric overflows
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC40 citations90
US6781585B2Aug 24, 2004
Graphics system having a super-sampled sample buffer and having single sample per pixel support
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC33 citations89
US7587582B1Sep 8, 2009
Method and apparatus for parallel arithmetic operations
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC11 citations84
US6989843B2Jan 24, 2006
Graphics system with an improved filtering adder tree
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC17 citations82
US6894698B2May 17, 2005
Recovering added precision from L-bit samples by dithering the samples prior to an averaging computation
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC0 citations51
INTEL CORP
5 patentsUS6636218B1Oct 21, 2003
Title-based digital differential analyzer rasterization
INTEL CORP20 citations92
US6782432B1Aug 24, 2004
Automatic state savings in a graphics pipeline
INTEL CORP47 citations87
US6765576B2Jul 20, 2004
Tile-based digital differential analyzer rasterization
INTEL CORP13 citations84
US6556203B1Apr 29, 2003
Tile-based digital differential analyzer rasterization
INTEL CORP16 citations84
US6753860B2Jun 22, 2004
Tile-based digital differential analyzer rasterization
INTEL CORP7 citations74