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Alan Heirich
Also filed as: HEIRICH ALAN · HEIRICH ALAN B · HEIRICH ALAN BRYANT
15 granted patents·3 pending applications·334 citations·filing 1999–2025
92Inventor score
Files withSONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC6COMPAQ COMPUTER CORP2HERE GLOBAL BV2HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO2MAY MOBILITY INC2
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18 records- 0196US6753878B1Parallel pipelined merge enginesHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 22, 2004·199 cites·17 claims
- 0286US7289119B2Statistical rendering accelerationSONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 30, 2007·24 cites·38 claims
- 0383US9223551B1Rendergraph compilation method and use thereof for low-latency executionHERE GLOBAL BV·Filed 2014·Granted Dec 29, 2015·7 cites·16 claims
- 0479US7548244B2Interactive debugging and monitoring of shader programs executing on a graphics processorSONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 16, 2009·9 cites·35 claims
- 0578US8223149B2Cone-culled soft shadowsBAVOIL LOUIS FREDERIC·Filed 2010·Granted Jul 17, 2012·7 cites·20 claims
- 0675US2025388231A1Method and system for feasibility-based operation of an autonomous agentMAY MOBILITY INC·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 0772US7788635B2Technique for processing a computer programSONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 31, 2010·6 cites·20 claims
- 0870US12296849B2Method and system for feasibility-based operation of an autonomous agentMAY MOBILITY INC·Filed 2022·Granted May 13, 2025·0 cites·18 claims
- 0970US6516032B1First-order difference compression for interleaved image data in a high-speed image compositorCOMPAQ COMPUTER CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Feb 4, 2003·37 cites·12 claims
- 1065US6359618B1Using irradiance textures for photorealistic image generationCOMPAQ COMPUTER CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 19, 2002·38 cites·8 claims
- 1162US9524541B2Method and apparatus for image filter tuningHERE GLOBAL BV·Filed 2014·Granted Dec 20, 2016·1 cites·19 claims
- 1261US8856760B2Streaming programming generatorHEIRICH ALAN B·Filed 2010·Granted Oct 7, 2014·2 cites·20 claims
- 1357US8970613B2Render tree cachingMURTHY GIRIDHAR SREENIVASA·Filed 2012·Granted Mar 3, 2015·1 cites·25 claims
- 1450US7907143B2Interactive debugging and monitoring of shader programs executing on a graphics processorSONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC·Filed 2009·Granted Mar 15, 2011·0 cites·20 claims
- 1550US7714858B2Distributed rendering of interactive soft shadowsHEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO·Filed 2003·Granted May 11, 2010·3 cites·24 claims
- 1645US2006059468A1Methods and systems for graphically navigating within a debugger programSONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
- 1744US7755626B2Cone-culled soft shadowsSONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jul 13, 2010·0 cites·27 claims
- 1843US2004223003A1Parallel pipelined merge enginesTANDEM COMPUTERS INC·Filed 2004·Application pending·0 cites
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