Inventor

LINDHOLM JOHN ERIK

US125 patents

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LINDHOLM JOHN ERIK

NVIDIA CORP

Single semiconductor graphics platform

Programmable graphics processor for multithreaded execution of programs

Method and apparatus for multithreaded processing of data in a programmable graphics processor

Single semiconductor graphics platform system and method with skinning, swizzling and masking capabilities

Method and system for programmable pipelined graphics processing with branching instructions

Transform, lighting and rasterization system embodied on a single semiconductor platform

Beam tracing

Structured programming control flow in a SIMD architecture

Execution of parallel groups of threads with per-instruction serialization

System and method for managing divergent threads in a SIMD architecture

System, method and computer program product for a programmable pixel processing model with instruction set

Graphics processing unit with transform module capable of handling scalars and vectors

Programmable pixel shading architecture

System, method and computer program product for a blending operation in a transform module of a computer graphics pipeline

Structured programming control flow using a disable mask in a SIMD architecture

Across-thread out of order instruction dispatch in a multithreaded graphics processor

System, method and computer program product for branching during programmable vertex processing

System, method and computer program product for vertex attribute aliasing in a graphics pipeline

System, method and article of manufacture for z-texture mapping

System and method for a graphics processing framework embodied utilizing a single semiconductor platform

System and method for managing divergent threads using synchronization tokens and program instructions that include set-synchronization bits

System and method for reserving and managing memory spaces in a memory resource

Software emulator for optimizing application-programmable vertex processing

Blending system and method in an integrated computer graphics pipeline

Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for a transform module in a graphics processor

Programmable graphics processor for generalized texturing

System, method and computer program product for z-texture mapping

Sequencer system and method for sequencing graphics processing

System, method and computer program product for performing a scissor operation in a graphics processing framework embodied on a single semiconductor platform

Graphics system and method for processing multiple independent execution threads

Clipping system and method for a graphics processing framework embodied on a single semiconductor platform

Scheduling instructions from multi-thread instruction buffer based on phase boundary qualifying rule for phases of math and data access operations with better caching

Processing an indirect branch instruction in a SIMD architecture

System, method and computer program product for providing arbitrary texture filtering

System, method and computer program product for texture shading

Methods of processing graphics data including reading and writing buffers

Position conflict detection and avoidance in a programmable graphics processor

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

Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for a vertex attribute buffer in a graphics processor

Method and apparatus for lighting module in a graphics processor

Scheduler in multi-threaded processor prioritizing instructions passing qualification rule

Operand collector architecture

LINDHOLM JOHN ERIK

Thread-type-based load balancing in a multithreaded processor

Generating clip state for a batch of vertices

Reduction operations in a synchronous parallel thread processing system with disabled execution threads

Thread-type-based resource allocation in a multithreaded processor

Programmable graphics processor for multithreaded execution of programs

NICKOLLS JOHN R

Architecture and instructions for accessing multi-dimensional formatted surface memory

HAKURA ZIYAD S

Cull before vertex attribute fetch and vertex lighting

AILA TIMO

System and method for performing ray tracing node traversal in image rendering