Inventor

Stephen D. Lew

Inventor
Sunnyvale, CA, US

Overview

55→
Patents
1995–2016
Patent span
Physics
Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 55 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G09Gprimary
G09GArrangements or circuits for control of indicating devices using static means to present variable information29%
G06FElectric digital data processing24%
H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television24%
G06TImage data processing or generation, in general16%
Y02DClimate change mitigation technologies in information and communication technologies [ict], i.e. information and communication technologies aiming at the reduction of their own energy use4%
G06KGraphical data reading1%
H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication1%
PatentTitleYear
9,232,238'System and method for pixel data compression'20169,158,896'Method and system for generating a secure key'20158,736,617'Hybrid graphic display'20148,736,623'Programmable DMA engine for implementing memory transfers and video processing for a video processor'20148,698,817'Video processor having scalar and vector components'20148,687,008'Latency tolerant system for executing video processing operations'20148,683,184'Multi context execution on a video processor'20148,520,009'Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor'20138,493,396'Multidimensional datapath processing in a video processor'20138,416,251'Stream processing in a video processor'20138,284,152'Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost'20128,253,750'Digital media processor'20128,203,562'Apparatus, system, and method for distributing work to integrated heterogeneous processors'20128,112,614'Parallel data processing systems and methods using cooperative thread arrays with unique thread identifiers as an input to compute an identifier of a location in a shared memory'20128,099,584'Methods for scalably exploiting parallelism in a parallel processing system'20128,085,239'Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost'20118,059,086'Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost'20118,044,922'Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost'20118,044,924'Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost'20118,044,923'Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost'20117,965,895'Screen compression'20117,937,567'Methods for scalably exploiting parallelism in a parallel processing system'20117,916,153'Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost'20117,903,123'System for programmable dithering of video data'20117,898,545'Apparatus, system, and method for integrated heterogeneous processors'20117,876,378'Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor'20117,861,060'Parallel data processing systems and methods using cooperative thread arrays and thread identifier values to determine processing behavior'20107,852,412'Video noise level detection'20107,788,468'Synchronization of threads in a cooperative thread array'20107,779,191'Platform-based idle-time processing'20107,760,209'Video format conversion using 3D graphics pipeline of a GPU'20107,733,419'Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor'20107,705,915'Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor'20107,624,224'System and method for directly executing code from block-based memory'20097,619,687'Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor'20097,577,762'Cooperative scheduling for multiple consumers'20097,526,634'Counter-based delay of dependent thread group execution'20097,511,714'Video format conversion using 3D graphics pipeline of a GPU'20097,508,448'Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor'20097,492,368'Apparatus, system, and method for coalescing parallel memory requests'20097,483,039'System for programmable dithering of video data'20097,466,316'Apparatus, system, and method for distributing work to integrated heterogeneous processors'20087,446,773'Apparatus, system, and method for integrated heterogeneous processors with integrated scheduler'20087,342,590'Screen compression'20087,301,542'System and method for filtering graphics data on scanout to a monitor'20077,274,373'System, method and computer program product for providing arbitrary texture filtering'20077,176,878'Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost'20076,982,722'System for programmable dithering of video data'20066,975,329'Depth-of-field effects using texture lookup'20056,870,542'System and method for filtering graphics data on scanout to a monitor'20056,825,847'System and method for real-time compression of pixel colors'20045,699,460'Image compression coprocessor with data flow control and multiple processing units'19975,510,857'Motion estimation coprocessor'19965,486,876'Video interface unit for mapping physical image data to logical tiles'19965,448,310'Motion estimation coprocessor'1995

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1995–1997Patents assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD (4)· patent assignee history
1995–1997Based in Colorado Springs, CO, US· patent location history
2004–2016Patents assigned to NVIDIA CORP (51)· patent assignee history
2004–2015Based in Sunnyvale, CA, US· patent location history
2011–2014Patents assigned to LEW STEPHEN D (14)· patent assignee history
2013–2014Patents assigned to GADRE SHIRISH (6)· patent assignee history
2013–2014Patents assigned to KARANDIKAR ASHISH (6)· patent assignee history
2016Based in Santa Clara, CA, US· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees
AssigneePatentsSpan
NVIDIA CORP512004–2016
LEW STEPHEN Dself142011–2014
GADRE SHIRISH62013–2014
KARANDIKAR ASHISH62013–2014
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD41995–1997
Locations
LocationPatentsSpan
Sunnyvale, California, US502004–2015
Colorado Springs, CO, US41995–1997
Santa Clara, California, US12016