Inventor
FRENCH MARK J
US19 patents
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NVIDIA CORP
10 patentsUS7382368B1Jun 3, 2008
Planar z representation for z compression
NVIDIA CORP61 citations98
US7999820B1Aug 16, 2011
Methods and systems for reusing memory addresses in a graphics system
NVIDIA CORP20 citations92
US7692659B1Apr 6, 2010
Color-compression using automatic reduction of multi-sampled pixels
NVIDIA CORP36 citations92
US7626588B1Dec 1, 2009
Prescient cache management
NVIDIA CORP24 citations92
US7616209B1Nov 10, 2009
Prescient cache management
NVIDIA CORP9 citations83
US7944452B1May 17, 2011
Methods and systems for reusing memory addresses in a graphics system
NVIDIA CORP11 citations80
US7917736B1Mar 29, 2011
Latency tolerant pipeline synchronization
NVIDIA CORP2 citations63
US7768519B1Aug 3, 2010
High-performance crossbar for high throughput pipelines
NVIDIA CORP6 citations63
US7620798B1Nov 17, 2009
Latency tolerant pipeline synchronization
NVIDIA CORP2 citations63
US7880747B1Feb 1, 2011
Blend optimizations that are conformant to floating-point rules
NVIDIA CORP2 citations62
FRENCH MARK J
4 patentsUS8228328B1Jul 24, 2012
Early Z testing for multiple render targets
FRENCH MARK J53 citations95
US8243069B1Aug 14, 2012
Late Z testing for multiple render targets
FRENCH MARK J6 citations82
US8933933B2Jan 13, 2015
Optimizing a graphics rendering pipeline using early Z-mode
FRENCH MARK J3 citations62
US8232991B1Jul 31, 2012
Z-test result reconciliation with multiple partitions
FRENCH MARK J2 citations60
MOLNAR STEVEN E
3 patentsUS8207975B1Jun 26, 2012
Graphics rendering pipeline that supports early-Z and late-Z virtual machines
MOLNAR STEVEN E43 citations94
US8233004B1Jul 31, 2012
Color-compression using automatic reduction of multi-sampled pixels
MOLNAR STEVEN E42 citations93
US8085272B1Dec 27, 2011
Method and system for improving data coherency in a parallel rendering system
MOLNAR STEVEN E10 citations83