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John W. Howson
Also filed as: HOWSON JOHN · HOWSON JOHN W · HOWSON JOHN WILLIAM
147 granted patents·39 pending applications·380 citations·filing 2003–2025
99Inventor score
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186 records- 0198US9314900B2Handheld grinder with a brushless electric motorBLACK & DECKER INC·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 19, 2016·28 cites·24 claims
- 0297US11348197B2Computing systems and methods for processing graphics data using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering spaceIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2020·Granted May 31, 2022·5 cites·20 claims
- 0397US11282162B2Tile based computer graphicsIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 22, 2022·3 cites·20 claims
- 0497US10885696B2Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering complexity using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering spaceIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Jan 5, 2021·5 cites·20 claims
- 0597US9424685B2Unified rasterization and ray tracing rendering environmentsHOWSON JOHN W·Filed 2013·Granted Aug 23, 2016·46 cites·20 claims
- 0697US9352456B2Power tool with force sensing electronic clutchBLACK & DECKER INC·Filed 2012·Granted May 31, 2016·49 cites·22 claims
- 0796US11928776B2Processing primitives which have unresolved fragments in a graphics processing systemIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2021·Granted Mar 12, 2024·2 cites·19 claims
- 0896US11922555B2Data structures, methods and tiling engines for hierarchically storing tiling information in a graphics processing systemIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2023·Granted Mar 5, 2024·3 cites·20 claims
- 0996US11348302B2Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering complexity using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering spaceIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2020·Granted May 31, 2022·4 cites·20 claims
- 1096US10395336B2Computing systems and methods for processing graphics data using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering spaceIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2018·Granted Aug 27, 2019·14 cites·20 claims
- 1196US9953456B2Untransformed display lists in a tile based rendering systemIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 24, 2018·12 cites·15 claims
- 1295US11887240B2Multi-rendering in graphics processing units using render progression checksIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2022·Granted Jan 30, 2024·2 cites·20 claims
- 1395US11710268B2Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering complexity using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering spaceIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2022·Granted Jul 25, 2023·2 cites·20 claims
- 1495US11640648B2Graphics processing systems with expansion transformation stage masksIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2021·Granted May 2, 2023·2 cites·20 claims
- 1595US11171542B2Handheld power tool with a brushless electric motorVANKO JOHN C·Filed 2020·Granted Nov 9, 2021·3 cites·20 claims
- 1695US10565772B2Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering complexity using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering spaceIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2018·Granted Feb 18, 2020·10 cites·20 claims
- 1794US10902550B2Computing systems and methods for processing graphics data using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering spaceIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2019·Granted Jan 26, 2021·7 cites·20 claims
- 1894US10438397B2Reduced acceleration structures for ray tracing systemsIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 8, 2019·10 cites·19 claims
- 1994US2025390976A1Tile Based Computer GraphicsIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 2093US10489962B1Hybrid hierarchy of bounding and grid structures for ray tracingIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2019·Granted Nov 26, 2019·7 cites·20 claims
- 2193US10453164B2Tile based computer graphicsIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2017·Granted Oct 22, 2019·6 cites·17 claims
- 2292US11610358B2Data structures, methods and tiling engines for hierarchically storing tiling information in a graphics processing systemIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2021·Granted Mar 21, 2023·2 cites·20 claims
- 2392US10217266B2Unified rasterization and ray tracing rendering environmentsIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2016·Granted Feb 26, 2019·7 cites·19 claims
- 2491US8502829B2Multi-core geometry processing in a tile based rendering systemHOWSON JOHN W·Filed 2012·Granted Aug 6, 2013·13 cites·20 claims
- 2590US11727525B2Task mergingIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2021·Granted Aug 15, 2023·2 cites·19 claims
- 2690US11341601B2Task assembly for SIMD processingIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2020·Granted May 24, 2022·2 cites·20 claims
- 2789US12381448B2Handheld power tool with a brushless electric motorBLACK & DECKER INC·Filed 2023·Granted Aug 5, 2025·0 cites·16 claims
- 2889US11657565B2Hidden culling in tile-based computer generated imagesIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2021·Granted May 23, 2023·1 cites·20 claims
- 2989US11263798B2Multi-rendering in graphics processing units using render progression checksIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Mar 1, 2022·2 cites·20 claims
- 3089US10255653B2Task assembly for SIMD processingIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2017·Granted Apr 9, 2019·5 cites·20 claims
- 3189US2025349064A1Data Structures, Methods and Tiling Engines for Hierarchically Storing Tiling Information in a Graphics Processing SystemIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 3288US12406325B1Tile based computer graphicsIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2024·Granted Sep 2, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 3388US11145025B2Graphics processing systems with expansion transformation stage masksIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2020·Granted Oct 12, 2021·2 cites·20 claims
- 3488US10909745B2Unified rasterization and ray tracing rendering environmentsIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2019·Granted Feb 2, 2021·3 cites·19 claims
- 3588US10339696B2On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation with discrete production schedulingIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2018·Granted Jul 2, 2019·3 cites·20 claims
- 3688US9928563B2Tile-based graphicsIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2014·Granted Mar 27, 2018·6 cites·22 claims
- 3788US2025336138A1Multi-Rendering in Graphics Processing Units Using Render Progression ChecksIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 3887US12367633B1Data structures, methods and tiling engines for hierarchically storing tiling information in a graphics processing systemIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2024·Granted Jul 22, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 3987US12229878B2Primitive block generator for graphics processing systemsIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2023·Granted Feb 18, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 4087US9633405B2Tile based computer graphicsIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 25, 2017·5 cites·24 claims
- 4187US9299187B2Opacity testing for processing primitives in a 3D graphics processing systemIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2015·Granted Mar 29, 2016·6 cites·24 claims
- 4287US2025061536A1Task execution in a simd processing unit with parallel groups of processing lanesIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 4386US12469211B2Processing primitives which have unresolved fragments in a graphics processing systemIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2024·Granted Nov 11, 2025·0 cites·18 claims
- 4486US10249085B2Graphics processing method and system for processing sub-primitives using sub-primitive indications in a control streamIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2016·Granted Apr 2, 2019·6 cites·20 claims
- 4586US2024371101A1Scalable parallel tessellationIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 4686US2025370977A1Hierarchy Merging in Computer GraphicsIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2025·Application pending·0 cites
- 4786US2025078384A1Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering complexity using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering spaceIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2024·Application pending·0 cites
- 4885US12354208B2Multi-rendering in graphics processing units using render progression checksIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2024·Granted Jul 8, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 4985US12190449B2Tessellation of patches of surfaces in a tile based rendering systemIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2023·Granted Jan 7, 2025·0 cites·20 claims
- 5085US11587281B2Unified rasterization and ray tracing rendering environmentsIMAGINATION TECH LTD·Filed 2021·Granted Feb 21, 2023·1 cites·20 claims
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