Inventor · disambiguated record
Timothy J. Van Hook
Also filed as: VAN HOOK TIMOTHY · VAN HOOK TIMOTHY J
54 granted patents·1 pending application·4,858 citations·filing 1994–2012
99Inventor score
Files withNINTENDO CO LTD21MIPS TECH INC8SILICON GRAPHICS INC7ATI TECHNOLOGIES INC6SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC6
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55 records- 0198US7307638B2Method and apparatus for interleaved processing of direct and indirect texture coordinates in a graphics systemNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 11, 2007·70 cites·46 claims
- 0298US7176919B2Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics systemNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2005·Granted Feb 13, 2007·134 cites·38 claims
- 0398US7002591B1Method and apparatus for interleaved processing of direct and indirect texture coordinates in a graphics systemNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2000·Granted Feb 21, 2006·229 cites·3 claims
- 0498US5734874ACentral processing unit with integrated graphics functionsSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1994·Granted Mar 31, 1998·182 cites·15 claims
- 0597US7184059B1Graphics system with copy out conversions between embedded frame buffer and main memoryNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2000·Granted Feb 27, 2007·152 cites·18 claims
- 0697US7034828B1Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics systemNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 25, 2006·174 cites·47 claims
- 0797US6571328B2Method and apparatus for obtaining a scalar value directly from a vector registerNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2001·Granted May 27, 2003·139 cites·9 claims
- 0897US6239810B1High performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processingNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 1999·Granted May 29, 2001·212 cites·5 claims
- 0997US5933650AAlignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processingMIPS TECH INC·Filed 1997·Granted Aug 3, 1999·352 cites·44 claims
- 1096US7908460B2Method and apparatus for obtaining a scalar value directly from a vector registerNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2010·Granted Mar 15, 2011·34 cites·15 claims
- 1196US7317459B2Graphics system with copy out conversions between embedded frame buffer and main memory for producing a streaming video image as a texture on a displayed object imageNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2006·Granted Jan 8, 2008·21 cites·10 claims
- 1295US6564304B1Memory processing system and method for accessing memory including reordering memory requests to reduce mode switchingATI TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2000·Granted May 13, 2003·151 cites·13 claims
- 1395US5864703AMethod for providing extended precision in SIMD vector arithmetic operationsMIPS TECH INC·Filed 1997·Granted Jan 26, 1999·204 cites·40 claims
- 1494US6867781B1Graphics pipeline token synchronizationNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 15, 2005·103 cites·17 claims
- 1594US6342892B1Video game system and coprocessor for video game systemNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 1998·Granted Jan 29, 2002·248 cites·38 claims
- 1693US8074058B2Providing extended precision in SIMD vector arithmetic operationsVAN HOOK TIMOTHY J·Filed 2009·Granted Dec 6, 2011·24 cites·20 claims
- 1793US6556197B1High performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processingNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 29, 2003·92 cites·120 claims
- 1893US6166748AInterface for a high performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processingNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 26, 2000·255 cites·45 claims
- 1992US7197625B1Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processingMIPS TECH INC·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 27, 2007·61 cites·18 claims
- 2092US6266758B1Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processingMIPS TECH INC·Filed 1999·Granted Jul 24, 2001·193 cites·13 claims
- 2192US6075906ASystem and method for the scaling of image streams that use motion vectorsSILICON GRAPHICS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Jun 13, 2000·190 cites·14 claims
- 2291US7995069B2Graphics system with embedded frame buffer having reconfigurable pixel formatsNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2009·Granted Aug 9, 2011·20 cites·20 claims
- 2391US7075545B2Graphics system with embedded frame buffer having reconfigurable pixel formatsNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 11, 2006·21 cites·3 claims
- 2491US7039241B1Method and apparatus for compression and decompression of color dataATI TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2000·Granted May 2, 2006·66 cites·4 claims
- 2591US6331856B1Video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processingNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 1995·Granted Dec 18, 2001·193 cites·2 claims
- 2690US7576748B2Graphics system with embedded frame butter having reconfigurable pixel formatsNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 18, 2009·19 cites·18 claims
- 2790US6717577B1Vertex cache for 3D computer graphicsNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 6, 2004·126 cites·21 claims
- 2890US6630933B1Method and apparatus for compression and decompression of Z dataATI TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 7, 2003·55 cites·24 claims
- 2988US6593929B2High performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processingNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 15, 2003·50 cites·3 claims
- 3087US5812147AInstruction methods for performing data formatting while moving data between memory and a vector register fileSILICON GRAPHICS INC·Filed 1996·Granted Sep 22, 1998·166 cites·26 claims
- 3186US7793077B2Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processingMIPS TECH INC·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 7, 2010·12 cites·14 claims
- 3286US6275239B1Media coprocessor with graphics video and audio tasks partitioned by time division multiplexingSILICON GRAPHICS INC·Filed 1998·Granted Aug 14, 2001·139 cites·19 claims
- 3384US6353438B1Cache organization—direct mapped cacheARTX·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 5, 2002·125 cites·111 claims
- 3482US7546443B2Providing extended precision in SIMD vector arithmetic operationsMIPS TECH INC·Filed 2006·Granted Jun 9, 2009·8 cites·20 claims
- 3582US6279099B1Central processing unit with integrated graphics functionsSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 21, 2001·33 cites·9 claims
- 3681US8111928B2Method and apparatus for compression of multi-sampled anti-aliasing color dataVAN HOOK TIMOTHY J·Filed 2003·Granted Feb 7, 2012·19 cites·38 claims
- 3781US5938756ACentral processing unit with integrated graphics functionsSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1996·Granted Aug 17, 1999·78 cites·9 claims
- 3880US6937245B1Graphics system with embedded frame buffer having reconfigurable pixel formatsNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 30, 2005·26 cites·7 claims
- 3979US7847803B1Method and apparatus for interleaved graphics processingATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC·Filed 2000·Granted Dec 7, 2010·26 cites·7 claims
- 4078US7739480B2Method and apparatus for obtaining a scalar value directly from a vector registerNINTENDO CO LTD·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 15, 2010·6 cites·13 claims
- 4176US6567426B1Preemptive timer multiplexed shared memory accessSILICON GRAPHICS INC·Filed 1998·Granted May 20, 2003·82 cites·23 claims
- 4274US6549210B1Method and apparatus for cache index hashingATI TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 15, 2003·53 cites·3 claims
- 4373US8774535B2Method and apparatus for compression of multi-sampled anti-aliasing color dataVAN HOOK TIMOTHY J·Filed 2012·Granted Jul 8, 2014·2 cites·57 claims
- 4473US7242400B2Compression and decompression of data using plane equationsATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 10, 2007·15 cites·24 claims
- 4572US5742277AAntialiasing of silhouette edgesSILICON GRAPHICS INC·Filed 1995·Granted Apr 21, 1998·53 cites·21 claims
- 4670US7944441B2Compression and decompression of data using plane equationsATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC·Filed 2007·Granted May 17, 2011·4 cites·24 claims
- 4770US6256655B1Method and system for performing floating point operations in unnormalized format using a floating point accumulatorSILICON GRAPHICS INC·Filed 1998·Granted Jul 3, 2001·62 cites·20 claims
- 4862US6490652B1Method and apparatus for decoupled retrieval of cache miss dataATI TECHNOLOGIES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Dec 3, 2002·39 cites·33 claims
- 4962US5982939AEnhancing texture edgesSILICON GRAPHICS INC·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 9, 1999·31 cites·15 claims
- 5057US7159100B2Method for providing extended precision in SIMD vector arithmetic operationsMIPS TECH INC·Filed 1998·Granted Jan 2, 2007·23 cites·8 claims
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