Inventor

KIRK DAVID B

US43 patents

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KIRK DAVID B

NVIDIA CORP

Single semiconductor graphics platform

Single semiconductor graphics platform system and method with skinning, swizzling and masking capabilities

Transform, lighting and rasterization system embodied on a single semiconductor platform

Variable brightness LCD backlight

Graphics processing unit with transform module capable of handling scalars and vectors

System, method and article of manufacture for pixel shaders for programmable shading

System, method and computer program product for a blending operation in a transform module of a computer graphics pipeline

System and method for a graphics processing framework embodied utilizing a single semiconductor platform

Graphics pipeline including combiner stages

Graphics pipeline selectively providing multiple pixels or multiple textures

Method and apparatus for processing stencil data using a programmable graphics processor

Blending system and method in an integrated computer graphics pipeline

Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for a transform module in a graphics processor

System, method and computer program product for performing a scissor operation in a graphics processing framework embodied on a single semiconductor platform

Method and apparatus for processing multiple types of pixel component representations including processes of premultiplication, postmultiplication, and colorkeying/chromakeying

Clipping system and method for a graphics processing framework embodied on a single semiconductor platform

Methods of processing graphics data including reading and writing buffers

Position conflict detection and avoidance in a programmable graphics processor

Graphics processing unit with an integrated fog and blending operation

Graphic controller to manage a memory and effective size of FIFO buffer as viewed by CPU can be as large as the memory

Single semiconductor graphics platform with blending and fog capabilities

Masking system and method for a graphics processing framework embodied on a single semiconductor platform

System, method and article of manufacture for a programmable processing model with instruction set

Methods of processing graphics data including reading and writing buffers

System, method and article of manufacture for a programmable vertex processing model with instruction set

Clipping system and method for a single graphics semiconductor platform

Graphics pipeline selectively providing multiple pixels or multiple textures

System, method and article of manufacture for a programmable processing model with instruction set

System, method and article of manufacture for allowing direct memory access to graphics vertex data while bypassing a processor

CALIFORNIA INST OF TECHN

Compensated analog multipliers

Method and apparatus for real-time constraint solution

N-dimensional basis function circuit

KIRK DAVID B

Circuit and method for estimating gradients

Variable brightness LCD backlight

LINDHOLM JOHN ERIK

System, method and article of manufacture for a programmable processing model with instruction set

System, method and article of manufacture for a programmable processing model with instruction set

IBM

Priority interrupt switching apparatus for real time systems

HEWLETT PACKARD CO

Texture mapping for computer graphics display controller system

APOLLO COMPUTER

Display controller utilizing attribute bits

MOLNAR STEVEN E

Method and system for efficient antialiased rendering

HEWLET PACKARD COMPANY

Quadratic interpolation for shaded image generation

SLAVENBURG GERRIT

System, method, and computer program product for controlling stereo glasses shutters

MOORE PRODUCTS CO

Pressure reproducing relay