Inventor
Franklin C. Crow
Inventor
Portola Valley, CA, US
Overview
Patents· 25 as inventor
Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.
G06Tprimary
G06TImage data processing or generation, in general75%
G06FElectric digital data processing16%
G09GArrangements or circuits for control of indicating devices using static means to present variable information9%
PatentTitleYear
9,123,173'Method for rasterizing non-rectangular tile groups in a raster stage of a graphics pipeline'20159,117,309'Method and system for rendering polygons with a bounding box in a graphics processor unit'20159,105,113'Method and system for efficiently rendering circles'20159,070,213'Tile based precision rasterization in a graphics pipeline'20159,064,333'Interrupt handling techniques in the rasterizer of a GPU'20158,941,653'Order-preserving distributed rasterizer'20158,928,676'Method for parallel fine rasterization in a raster stage of a graphics pipeline'20158,780,123'Interrupt handling techniques in the rasterizer of a GPU'20148,698,811'Nested boustrophedonic patterns for rasterization'20148,587,581'Order-preserving distributed rasterizer'20138,508,544'Small primitive detection to optimize compression and decompression in a graphics processor'20138,482,567'Line rasterization techniques'20138,477,134'Conservative triage of polygon status using low precision edge evaluation and high precision edge evaluation'20138,427,487'Multiple tile output using interface compression in a raster stage'20138,390,645'Method and system for rendering connecting antialiased line segments'20138,237,738'Smooth rasterization of polygonal graphics primitives'20128,085,264'Tile output using multiple queue output buffering in a raster stage'20118,063,903'Edge evaluation techniques for graphics hardware'20117,843,468'Accellerated start tile search'20107,804,499'Variable performance rasterization with constant effort'20107,791,617'Method and system for rendering polygons having abutting edges'20107,554,546'Stippled lines using direct distance evaluation'20097,483,029'GPU having raster components configured for using nested boustrophedonic patterns to traverse screen areas'20097,221,368'Stippled lines using direct distance evaluation'20077,081,902'Apparatus, system, and method for gamma correction of smoothed primitives'2006Career & activity timeline
Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.
2006–2015Patents assigned to NVIDIA CORP (25)· patent assignee history
2006–2015Based in Portola Valley, CA, US· patent location history
2011–2015Patents assigned to CROW FRANKLIN C (17)· patent assignee history
2011–2015Patents assigned to SEWALL JEFFREY R (4)· patent assignee history
2011–2015Patents assigned to VIGNON BLAISE A (3)· patent assignee history
2014–2015Patents assigned to LEGAKIS JUSTIN S (2)· patent assignee history
Inventor activity
Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.
Assignees
| Assignee | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA CORP | 25 | 2006–2015 |
| CROW FRANKLIN Cself | 17 | 2011–2015 |
| SEWALL JEFFREY R | 4 | 2011–2015 |
| VIGNON BLAISE A | 3 | 2011–2015 |
| LEGAKIS JUSTIN S | 2 | 2014–2015 |
Locations
| Location | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| Portola Valley, California, US | 25 | 2006–2015 |