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Gordon Clyde Fossum
Also filed as: FOSSUM GORDON C · FOSSUM GORDON CLYDE
38 granted patents·2 pending applications·344 citations·filing 1989–2012
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40 records- 0189US8676874B2Data structure for tiling and packetizing a sparse matrixFOSSUM GORDON CLYDE·Filed 2010·Granted Mar 18, 2014·13 cites·11 claims
- 0287US8769216B2Optimizing output vector data generation using a formatted matrix data structureFOSSUM GORDON CLYDE·Filed 2012·Granted Jul 1, 2014·9 cites·7 claims
- 0385US7439973B2Ray tracing with depth buffered displayIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 21, 2008·14 cites·5 claims
- 0482US7298377B2System and method for cache optimized data formattingIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 20, 2007·26 cites·15 claims
- 0581US6681237B1Exponentiation circuit for graphics adapterIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 20, 2004·32 cites·26 claims
- 0680US8525826B2System for iterative interactive ray tracing in a multiprocessor environmentNUTTER MARK RICHARD·Filed 2008·Granted Sep 3, 2013·9 cites·9 claims
- 0777US8665271B2System and method for iterative interactive ray tracing in a multiprocessor environmentNUTTER MARK RICHARD·Filed 2012·Granted Mar 4, 2014·4 cites·16 claims
- 0871US6606097B1Circuit for generating frame buffer valuesIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 12, 2003·16 cites·23 claims
- 0967US5630039ATessellating complex in polygons in modeling coordinatesIBM·Filed 1994·Granted May 13, 1997·30 cites·9 claims
- 1066US7864187B2System and method for cache optimized data formattingIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Jan 4, 2011·3 cites·20 claims
- 1165US7538767B2Adaptive span computation during ray castingIBM·Filed 2008·Granted May 26, 2009·3 cites·11 claims
- 1265US7515152B2Adaptive sampling of a static data setIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Apr 7, 2009·3 cites·14 claims
- 1365US6924802B2Efficient function interpolation using SIMD vector permute functionalityIBM·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 2, 2005·11 cites·33 claims
- 1463US7143126B2Method and apparatus for implementing power of two floating point estimationIBM·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 28, 2006·9 cites·6 claims
- 1561US7362330B2Adaptive span computation when ray castingIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 22, 2008·2 cites·6 claims
- 1661US6628281B1Method and system for computing the intersection of a bounding volume and screen-aligned planeIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 30, 2003·9 cites·36 claims
- 1761US5220646ASingle pass hidden line removal using z-buffersIBM·Filed 1990·Granted Jun 15, 1993·28 cites·10 claims
- 1860US5276783ATessellating complex polygons in modeling coordinatesIBM·Filed 1989·Granted Jan 4, 1994·24 cites·9 claims
- 1959US6628284B1Method and apparatus for processing graphics perspective transformationsIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Sep 30, 2003·8 cites·16 claims
- 2059US5245700AAdjustment of z-buffer values for lines on the surface of a polygonIBM·Filed 1989·Granted Sep 14, 1993·27 cites·8 claims
- 2158US7805579B2Methods and arrangements for multi-buffering dataIBM·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 28, 2010·1 cites·20 claims
- 2258US7212199B2System and method for terrain rendering using a limited memory footprintIBM·Filed 2004·Granted May 1, 2007·7 cites·17 claims
- 2357US7113184B2System and method for blending data sampling techniquesIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 26, 2006·6 cites·20 claims
- 2455US6654777B1Single precision inverse square root generatorIBM·Filed 2000·Granted Nov 25, 2003·4 cites·24 claims
- 2554US7986330B2Method and apparatus for generating gammacorrected antialiased linesIBM·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 26, 2011·5 cites·23 claims
- 2653US2008263336A1Processor Having Efficient Function Estimate InstructionsIBM·Filed 2008·Application pending·0 cites
- 2752US7694036B2System and product for DMA controller with multi-dimensional line-walking functionalityIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Apr 6, 2010·0 cites·9 claims
- 2852US6559856B1Apparatus for fixed-point graphics and method thereforIBM·Filed 1999·Granted May 6, 2003·16 cites·28 claims
- 2950US8959135B2Data structure for tiling and packetizing a sparse matrixFOSSUM GORDON CLYDE·Filed 2012·Granted Feb 17, 2015·0 cites·14 claims
- 3050US7542044B2Optimized specular highlight generationIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 2, 2009·0 cites·9 claims
- 3149US8762655B2Optimizing output vector data generation using a formatted matrix data structureFOSSUM GORDON CLYDE·Filed 2010·Granted Jun 24, 2014·0 cites·14 claims
- 3249US7737970B2Ray tracing with depth buffered displayIBM·Filed 2008·Granted Jun 15, 2010·0 cites·10 claims
- 3348US7406589B2Processor having efficient function estimate instructionsIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 29, 2008·0 cites·7 claims
- 3448US7363397B2System and method for DMA controller with multi-dimensional line-walking functionalityIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Apr 22, 2008·0 cites·5 claims
- 3545US7456837B2Optimized specular highlight generationIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 25, 2008·0 cites·1 claims
- 3645US7345687B2Adaptive sampling of a static data setIBM·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 18, 2008·0 cites·7 claims
- 3745US6965330B1System and method for improved quality signal re-sampling using a weighted signal averageIBM·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 15, 2005·2 cites·20 claims
- 3845US5748863AMethod and system for fast interpolation of depth buffer values in a computer graphics display systemIBM·Filed 1995·Granted May 5, 1998·14 cites·32 claims
- 3945US2005138095A1Method for base two logarithmic estimationIBM·Filed 2003·Application pending·0 cites
- 4038US6243097B1Bounding volume for 3D graphic primitivesIBM·Filed 1998·Granted Jun 5, 2001·9 cites·20 claims
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