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Kevin Rushforth
Also filed as: RUSHFORTH KEVIN · RUSHFORTH KEVIN C
15 granted patents·605 citations·filing 1987–2009
95Inventor score
Files withSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC9DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP3EVANS & SUTHERLAND COMPUTER CO1FOWLER ANNE MARIE1ORACLE AMERICA INC1
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15 records- 0192US6570564B1Method and apparatus for rapid processing of scene-based programsSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2000·Granted May 27, 2003·76 cites·28 claims
- 0292US4928247AMethod and apparatus for the continuous and asynchronous traversal and processing of graphics data structuresDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1988·Granted May 22, 1990·132 cites·12 claims
- 0389US6765571B2Using a master controller to manage threads and resources for scene-based renderingSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 20, 2004·56 cites·26 claims
- 0485US7800614B2Efficient communication in a client-server scene graph systemORACLE AMERICA INC·Filed 2005·Granted Sep 21, 2010·17 cites·32 claims
- 0582US4873515AComputer graphics pixel processing systemEVANS & SUTHERLAND COMPUTER CO·Filed 1987·Granted Oct 10, 1989·84 cites·13 claims
- 0679US7061486B2Using messaging to manage scene-based renderingSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2001·Granted Jun 13, 2006·27 cites·31 claims
- 0776US7170511B2Creating a parallel structure for scene-based renderingSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2001·Granted Jan 30, 2007·23 cites·36 claims
- 0873US6734852B2Using rendering molecules to manage scene-based renderingSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2001·Granted May 11, 2004·19 cites·24 claims
- 0973US5982375AFloating point processor for a three-dimensional graphics accelerator which includes single-pass stereo capabilitySUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 9, 1999·47 cites·30 claims
- 1071US5097411AGraphics workstation for creating graphics data structure which are stored retrieved and displayed by a graphics subsystem for competing programsDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1988·Granted Mar 17, 1992·46 cites·3 claims
- 1170US7184038B2Using render bin parallelism for rendering scene graph based graphics dataSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2001·Granted Feb 27, 2007·16 cites·43 claims
- 1266US5251322AMethod of operating a computer graphics system including asynchronously traversing its nodesDIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP·Filed 1990·Granted Oct 5, 1993·36 cites·6 claims
- 1354US5914724ALighting unit for a three-dimensional graphics accelerator with improved handling of incoming color valuesSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 1997·Granted Jun 22, 1999·24 cites·26 claims
- 1447US7408549B1Method for hardware sorted fragment compositionSUN MICROSYSTEMS INC·Filed 2004·Granted Aug 5, 2008·2 cites·40 claims
- 1534US9142044B2Apparatus, systems and methods for layout of scene graphs using node bounding areasFOWLER ANNE MARIE·Filed 2009·Granted Sep 22, 2015·0 cites·8 claims
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