Inventor

MOLNAR STEVEN E

US85 patents

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MOLNAR STEVEN E

NVIDIA CORP

Controller for a memory system having multiple partitions

System and method for real-time compression of pixel colors

Apparatus, system, and method for using page table entries in a graphics system to provide storage format information for address translation

Planar z representation for z compression

Integrated graphics processing unit with antialiasing

Antialiasing using hybrid supersampling-multisampling

System and method for packing data in a tiled graphics memory

Methods of processing graphics data including reading and writing buffers

Position conflict detection and avoidance in a programmable graphics processor

Position conflict detection and avoidance in a programmable graphics processor using tile coverage data

Programmable graphics system and method using flexible, high-precision data formats

Methods and systems for reusing memory addresses in a graphics system

Connecting multiple pixel shaders to a frame buffer without a crossbar

Color-compression using automatic reduction of multi-sampled pixels

Method and apparatus to ensure consistency of depth values computed in different sections of a graphics processor

Prescient cache management

Antialiasing using hybrid supersampling-multisampling

System and method for virtual coverage anti-aliasing

Variable performance rasterization with constant effort

System and method for packing data in different formats in a tiled graphics memory

Method and system for reducing memory bandwidth requirements in an anti-aliasing operation

Apparatus, system, and method for using page table entries in a graphics system to provide storage format information for address translation

System and method for generating multiple outputs in a single shader processing pass in a hardware graphics pipeline

Order-preserving distributed rasterizer

Prescient cache management

Rendering of disjoint and overlapping blits

Optimized alpha blend for anti-aliased render

MOLNAR STEVEN E

Graphics rendering pipeline that supports early-Z and late-Z virtual machines

Color-compression using automatic reduction of multi-sampled pixels

Small primitive detection to optimize compression and decompression in a graphics processor

Method and system for improving data coherency in a parallel rendering system

Method and system for improving data coherency in a parallel rendering system

Method and system for efficient antialiased rendering

UNIV NORTH CAROLINA

Architecture and apparatus for image generation utilizing enhanced memory devices

Architecture and apparatus for image generation

FRENCH MARK J

Early Z testing for multiple render targets

Late Z testing for multiple render targets

EDMONDSON JOHN H

Coalescing to avoid read-modify-write during compressed data operations

Coalescing to avoid read-modify-write during compressed data operations

RHOADES JOHNNY S

Distributing primitives to multiple rasterizers

DONOVAN WALTER E

Alpha-to-coverage value determination using virtual samples

PURCELL TIMOTHY JOHN

Rasterization tile coalescer and reorder buffer

MCALLISTER DAVID KIRK

Threshold-based lossy reduction color compression

KILGARIFF EMMETT M

Hardware-managed virtual buffers using a shared memory for load distribution

DEMING JAMES LEROY

Efficient memory translator with variable size cache line coverage

NIVIDIA CORP

Hierarchical multi-precision pipeline counters

GLASCO DAVID B

Compression status caching

EVERITT CASS W

Hybrid multisample/supersample antialiasing

DULUK JR JEROME F

Hardware override of application programming interface programmed state

DANSKIN JOHN M

Parallel array architecture for a graphics processor