Inventor
LEW STEPHEN D
US47 patents
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NVIDIA CORP
29 patentsUS7861060B1Dec 28, 2010
Parallel data processing systems and methods using cooperative thread arrays and thread identifier values to determine processing behavior
NVIDIA CORP218 citations99
US7788468B1Aug 31, 2010
Synchronization of threads in a cooperative thread array
NVIDIA CORP169 citations99
US6825847B1Nov 30, 2004
System and method for real-time compression of pixel colors
NVIDIA CORP156 citations99
US7526634B1Apr 28, 2009
Counter-based delay of dependent thread group execution
NVIDIA CORP86 citations98
US7492368B1Feb 17, 2009
Apparatus, system, and method for coalescing parallel memory requests
NVIDIA CORP103 citations98
US7466316B1Dec 16, 2008
Apparatus, system, and method for distributing work to integrated heterogeneous processors
NVIDIA CORP66 citations98
US7176878B2Feb 13, 2007
Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost
NVIDIA CORP57 citations96
US7508448B1Mar 24, 2009
Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor
NVIDIA CORP44 citations95
US7937567B1May 3, 2011
Methods for scalably exploiting parallelism in a parallel processing system
NVIDIA CORP22 citations93
US7898545B1Mar 1, 2011
Apparatus, system, and method for integrated heterogeneous processors
NVIDIA CORP28 citations93
US7446773B1Nov 4, 2008
Apparatus, system, and method for integrated heterogeneous processors with integrated scheduler
NVIDIA CORP48 citations93
US7274373B1Sep 25, 2007
System, method and computer program product for providing arbitrary texture filtering
NVIDIA CORP19 citations93
US7876378B1Jan 25, 2011
Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor
NVIDIA CORP11 citations92
US6975329B2Dec 13, 2005
Depth-of-field effects using texture lookup
NVIDIA CORP33 citations87
US7779191B2Aug 17, 2010
Platform-based idle-time processing
NVIDIA CORP8 citations83
US7342590B1Mar 11, 2008
Screen compression
NVIDIA CORP12 citations82
US8044922B1Oct 25, 2011
Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost
NVIDIA CORP4 citations74
US7916153B1Mar 29, 2011
Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost
NVIDIA CORP3 citations74
US7852412B1Dec 14, 2010
Video noise level detection
NVIDIA CORP7 citations74
US7733419B1Jun 8, 2010
Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor
NVIDIA CORP6 citations73
US6870542B2Mar 22, 2005
System and method for filtering graphics data on scanout to a monitor
NVIDIA CORP7 citations72
US8044923B1Oct 25, 2011
Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost
NVIDIA CORP1 citations63
US7705915B1Apr 27, 2010
Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor
NVIDIA CORP2 citations62
US7619687B1Nov 17, 2009
Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor
NVIDIA CORP1 citations62
US7577762B1Aug 18, 2009
Cooperative scheduling for multiple consumers
NVIDIA CORP6 citations61
US7301542B1Nov 27, 2007
System and method for filtering graphics data on scanout to a monitor
NVIDIA CORP4 citations61
US8044924B1Oct 25, 2011
Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost
NVIDIA CORP0 citations52
US7624224B1Nov 24, 2009
System and method for directly executing code from block-based memory
NVIDIA CORP0 citations52
US7965895B1Jun 21, 2011
Screen compression
NVIDIA CORP1 citations50
LEW STEPHEN D
6 patentsUS8284152B1Oct 9, 2012
Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost
LEW STEPHEN D6 citations84
US8736623B1May 27, 2014
Programmable DMA engine for implementing memory transfers and video processing for a video processor
LEW STEPHEN D4 citations83
US8683184B1Mar 25, 2014
Multi context execution on a video processor
LEW STEPHEN D6 citations83
US8520009B1Aug 27, 2013
Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor
LEW STEPHEN D3 citations72
US8085239B1Dec 27, 2011
Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost
LEW STEPHEN D1 citations62
US8059086B1Nov 15, 2011
Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost
LEW STEPHEN D1 citations62
ARRAY MICROSYSTEMS INC
3 patentsUS5510857AApr 23, 1996
Motion estimation coprocessor
ARRAY MICROSYSTEMS INC156 citations96
US5486876AJan 23, 1996
Video interface unit for mapping physical image data to logical tiles
ARRAY MICROSYSTEMS INC197 citations94
US5448310ASep 5, 1995
Motion estimation coprocessor
ARRAY MICROSYSTEMS INC102 citations94
NICKOLLS JOHN R
2 patentsUS8112614B2Feb 7, 2012
Parallel data processing systems and methods using cooperative thread arrays with unique thread identifiers as an input to compute an identifier of a location in a shared memory
NICKOLLS JOHN R22 citations92
US8099584B2Jan 17, 2012
Methods for scalably exploiting parallelism in a parallel processing system
NICKOLLS JOHN R1 citations52