Inventor

Michael D. Asal

Inventor

Sugar Land, TX, US

Overview

1988–2011

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 38 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 information40%

G06FElectric digital data processing38%

G06TImage data processing or generation, in general20%

H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television2%

PatentTitleYear

7,917,753'Transferring control between programs of different security levels'2011 7,698,544'Automatic halting of a processor in debug mode due to reset'2010 7,673,119'VLIW optional fetch packet header extends instruction set space'2010 7,581,082'Software source transfer selects instruction word sizes'2009 6,189,077'Two computer access circuit using address translation into common register file'2001 6,154,824'Multifunctional access devices, systems and methods'2000 5,940,610'Using prioritized interrupt callback routines to process different types of multimedia information'1999 5,923,340'Process of processing graphics data'1999 5,717,904'Apparatus and methods for automatically controlling block writes'1998 5,715,437'System for, and method of, processing in hardware commands received from software without polling of the hardware by the software'1998 5,696,923'Graphics processor writing to shadow register at predetermined address simultaneously with writing to control register'1997 5,696,924'Memory access circuit with address translation performing auto increment of translated address on writes and return to translated address on reads'1997 5,636,335'Graphics computer system having a second palette shadowing data in a first palette'1997 5,627,568'Display buffer using minimum number of VRAMs'1997 5,546,553'Multifunctional access devices, systems and methods'1996 5,437,011'Graphics computer system, a graphics system arrangement, a display system, a graphics processor and a method of processing graphic data'1995 RE034881'Graphics data processing apparatus having image operations with transparent color having selectable number of bits'1995 5,375,198'Process for performing a windowing operation in an array move, a graphics computer system, a display system, a graphic processor and a graphics display system'1994 5,341,470'Computer graphics systems, palette devices and methods for shift clock pulse insertion during blanking'1994 5,333,261'Graphics processing apparatus having instruction which operates separately on X and Y coordinates of pixel location registers'1994 5,329,617'Graphics processor nonconfined address calculation system'1994 5,317,333'Graphics data processing apparatus with draw and advance operation'1994 5,309,551'Devices, systems and methods for palette pass-through mode'1994 5,294,918'Graphics processing apparatus having color expand operation for drawing color graphics from monochrome data'1994 5,287,100'Graphics systems, palettes and methods with combined video and shift clock control'1994 5,283,863'Process for effecting an array move instruction, a graphics computer system, a display system, a graphics processor and graphics display system'1994 5,269,021'Multiprocessor software interface for a graphics processor subsystem employing partially linked dynamic load modules which are downloaded and fully linked at run time'1993 5,249,266'Data processing apparatus with self-emulation capability'1993 5,185,859'Graphics processor, a graphics computer system, and a process of masking selected bits'1993 5,162,784'Graphics data processing apparatus with draw and advance operation'1992 5,142,621'Graphics processing apparatus having instruction which operates separately on X and Y coordinates of pixel location registers'1992 5,140,687'Data processing apparatus with self-emulation capability'1992 5,095,301'Graphics processing apparatus having color expand operation for drawing color graphics from monochrome data'1992 5,077,678'Graphics data processor with window checking for determining whether a point is within a window'1991 5,056,041'Data processing apparatus with improved bit masking capability'1991 4,933,878'Graphics data processing apparatus having non-linear saturating operations on multibit color data'1990 4,849,920'Apparatus for locating and representing the position of an end \"1\" bit of a number in a multi-bit number format'1989 4,752,893'Graphics data processing apparatus having image operations with transparent color having a selectable number of bits'1988

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1988–2011Patents assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC (35)· patent assignee history

1988–1999Based in Sugarland, TX, US· patent location history

1989Based in Peoria, IL, US· patent location history

1991–2001Based in Sugar Land, TX, US· patent location history

1992Based in Houston, TX, US· patent location history

1998–1999Patents assigned to BROOKTREE CORP (3)· patent assignee history

1998–2011Based in Austin, TX, US· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC	35	1988–2011
BROOKTREE CORP	3	1998–1999

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Sugar Land, Texas, US	15	1991–2001
Sugarland, Texas, US	14	1988–1999
Austin, Texas, US	7	1998–2011
Houston, Texas, US	1	1992
Peoria, Illinois, US	1	1989