Inventor
FOX THOMAS WINTERS
US12 patents
Patents
12 patentsUS6681237B1Jan 20, 2004
Exponentiation circuit for graphics adapter
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Programmable hardwired geometry pipeline
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Programmable graphics processing engine
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US6559856B1May 6, 2003
Apparatus for fixed-point graphics and method therefor
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US6340972B1Jan 22, 2002
Graphics adapter having a versatile lighting engine
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US6654777B1Nov 25, 2003
Single precision inverse square root generator
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Three-dimension graphics rendering apparatus and method therefor
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US6778174B1Aug 17, 2004
Method and apparatus for attribute processing with an active pipeline stage in a data processing system
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Executing a composite scalar-vector VLIW instruction having a repeat field
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US10572263B2Feb 25, 2020
Executing a composite VLIW instruction having a scalar atom that indicates an iteration of execution
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US6389485B1May 14, 2002
Graphics adapter capable of supporting lighting models from multiple application programming interfaces within a graphics system
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Low latency floating-point division operations
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