Inventor

KIRKLAND DALE L

US40 patents

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KIRKLAND DALE L

NVIDIA CORP

Multi-sample surface processing using one sample

Primitive re-ordering between world-space and screen-space pipelines with buffer limited processing

Mid-primitive graphics execution preemption

Programmable blending in multi-threaded processing units

Power efficient attribute handling for tessellation and geometry shaders

Real-time hardware-assisted GPU tuning using machine learning

Data structures for efficient tiled rendering

Barrier commands in a cache tiling architecture

System-generated stable barycentric coordinates and direct plane equation access

Techniques for managing graphics processing resources in a tile-based architecture

Heuristics for improving performance in a tile based architecture

Techniques for managing graphics processing resources in a tile-based architecture

Heuristics for improving performance in a tile-based architecture

Distributed tiled caching

Techniques for managing graphics processing resources in a tile-based architecture

Multi-sample surface processing using sample subsets

Real-time hardware-assisted GPU tuning using machine learning

Real-time hardware-assisted GPU tuning using machine learning

State handling in a tiled architecture

Techniques for adaptively generating bounding boxes

System, method, and computer program product for generating primitive specific attributes

Distributed tiled caching

System, method, and computer program product for processing graphics data associated with shading

Surface resource view hash for coherent cache operations in texture processing hardware

3DLABS INC LTD

Multi-processor graphics accelerator

Multi-processor graphics accelerator

Multi-processor graphics accelerator

Method and apparatus for transporting information to a graphic accelerator card

System for reducing aliasing on a display device

Multisampling dithering with shuffle tables

Multisample dithering with shuffle tables

RHOADES JOHNNY S

Distributing primitives to multiple rasterizers

Distributing primitives to multiple rasterizers

Redistribution of generated geometric primitives

INTERGRAPH CORP

Peer-to-peer parallel processing graphics accelerator

KILGARIFF EMMETT M

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

JOHNSON PHILIP BROWNING

Method and system for distributing work batches to processing units based on a number of enabled streaming multiprocessors

STEINER WALTER R

Method and system for reducing a polygon bounding box

3DLABS

System and method for fast gradient pixel clears in graphics rendering

HAKURA ZIYAD S

Time slice processing of tessellation and geometry shaders