Inventor

KILGARD MARK J

US66 patents

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KILGARD MARK J

NVIDIA CORP

Omnidirectional shadow texture mapping

Depth clamping system and method in a hardware graphics pipeline

Depth bounds testing

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

Graphics API with branching capabilities

Order-independent transparency rendering system and method

System and method for depth clamping in a hardware graphics pipeline

System and method for using and collecting information from a plurality of depth layers

System and method for dual-depth shadow-mapping

Optimized chaining of vertex and fragment programs

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

System, method and computer program product for vertex attribute aliasing in a graphics pipeline

System and method for display list occlusion branching

Software emulator for optimizing application-programmable vertex processing

Two-sided stencil testing system and method

Coverage adaptive multisampling

System and method for bump mapping setup

Texture arrays in a graphics library

System and method for compiling high-level primitive programs into primitive program micro-code

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

Dynamic texture fetch cancellation

System, method and computer program product for matrix tracking during vertex processing in a graphics pipeline

System and method for interfacing graphics program modules

Method and system for synchronizing updates of vertex data with a graphics processor that is fetching vertex data

Vector data types with swizzling and write masking for C++

Managing primitive program vertex attributes as per-attribute arrays

Bounding region accumulation for graphics rendering

Avoiding unnecessary uncovered texture fetches

System and method for render-to-texture depth peeling

Surrogate stencil buffer clearing

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

Pixel shader-based data array resizing

Programmable blending in multi-threaded processing units

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

Target independent rasterization with multiple color samples

Optimizing triangle topology for path rendering

Stencil then cover path rendering with shared edges

KILGARD MARK J

Primitive program compilation for flat attributes with provoking vertex independence

3D graphics API extension for a packed float image format

Baking path rendering objects into compact and efficient memory representations

Path rendering by covering the path based on a generated stencil buffer

Path rendering with path clipping

Conversion of dashed strokes into quadratic Bèzier segment sequences

3D graphics API extension for a shared exponent image format

Decomposing cubic Bezier segments for tessellation-free stencil filling

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

NEWHALL JR WILLIAM P

Omnidirectional shadow texture mapping

Omnidirectional shadow texture mapping

KRETZLER BRIAN

Visual inspection and debugging of threads in parallel computing systems

SAMS JASON

System and method for enabling scene program functionality