Inventor

Timothy J. Van Hook

Inventor

Atherton, CA, US

Overview

1997–2014

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 54 as inventor

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

G06Tprimary

G06TImage data processing or generation, in general46%

G06FElectric digital data processing32%

A63FCard, board, or roulette games10%

G09GArrangements or circuits for control of indicating devices using static means to present variable information6%

H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television5%

PatentTitleYear

8,774,535'Method and apparatus for compression of multi-sampled anti-aliasing color data'2014 8,111,928'Method and apparatus for compression of multi-sampled anti-aliasing color data'2012 8,074,058'Providing extended precision in SIMD vector arithmetic operations'2011 7,995,069'Graphics system with embedded frame buffer having reconfigurable pixel formats'2011 7,944,441'Compression and decompression of data using plane equations'2011 7,908,460'Method and apparatus for obtaining a scalar value directly from a vector register'2011 7,847,803'Method and apparatus for interleaved graphics processing'2010 7,793,077'Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing'2010 7,739,480'Method and apparatus for obtaining a scalar value directly from a vector register'2010 7,576,748'Graphics system with embedded frame butter having reconfigurable pixel formats'2009 7,546,443'Providing extended precision in SIMD vector arithmetic operations'2009 7,317,459'Graphics system with copy out conversions between embedded frame buffer and main memory for producing a streaming video image as a texture on a displayed object image'2008 7,307,638'Method and apparatus for interleaved processing of direct and indirect texture coordinates in a graphics system'2007 7,242,400'Compression and decompression of data using plane equations'2007 7,197,625'Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing'2007 7,184,059'Graphics system with copy out conversions between embedded frame buffer and main memory'2007 7,176,919'Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics system'2007 7,159,100'Method for providing extended precision in SIMD vector arithmetic operations'2007 7,075,545'Graphics system with embedded frame buffer having reconfigurable pixel formats'2006 7,039,241'Method and apparatus for compression and decompression of color data'2006 7,034,828'Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics system'2006 7,002,591'Method and apparatus for interleaved processing of direct and indirect texture coordinates in a graphics system'2006 6,937,245'Graphics system with embedded frame buffer having reconfigurable pixel formats'2005 6,867,781'Graphics pipeline token synchronization'2005 6,717,577'Vertex cache for 3D computer graphics'2004 6,675,239'Method and apparatus for providing commands to a command memory'2004 6,630,933'Method and apparatus for compression and decompression of Z data'2003 6,593,929'High performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing'2003 6,571,328'Method and apparatus for obtaining a scalar value directly from a vector register'2003 6,567,426'Preemptive timer multiplexed shared memory access'2003 6,564,304'Memory processing system and method for accessing memory including reordering memory requests to reduce mode switching'2003 6,556,197'High performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing'2003 6,549,210'Method and apparatus for cache index hashing'2003 6,490,652'Method and apparatus for decoupled retrieval of cache miss data'2002 6,353,438'Cache organizationdirect mapped cache'2002 6,342,892'Video game system and coprocessor for video game system'2002 6,331,856'Video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing'2001 6,279,099'Central processing unit with integrated graphics functions'2001 6,275,239'Media coprocessor with graphics video and audio tasks partitioned by time division multiplexing'2001 6,266,758'Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing'2001 6,256,655'Method and system for performing floating point operations in unnormalized format using a floating point accumulator'2001 6,239,810'High performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing'2001 6,166,748'Interface for a high performance low cost video game system with coprocessor providing high speed efficient 3D graphics and digital audio signal processing'2000 6,075,906'System and method for the scaling of image streams that use motion vectors'2000 5,982,939'Enhancing texture edges'1999 5,938,756'Central processing unit with integrated graphics functions'1999 5,933,650'Alignment and ordering of vector elements for single instruction multiple data processing'1999 5,933,157'Central processing unit with integrated graphics functions'1999 5,931,945'Graphic system for masking multiple non-contiguous bytes having decode logic to selectively activate each of the control lines based on the mask register bits'1999 5,864,703'Method for providing extended precision in SIMD vector arithmetic operations'1999 5,812,147'Instruction methods for performing data formatting while moving data between memory and a vector register file'1998 5,742,277'Antialiasing of silhouette edges'1998 5,734,874'Central processing unit with integrated graphics functions'1998 5,638,500'Apparatus and method for direct calculation of clip region'1997

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1997–2001Patents assigned to SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC (6)· patent assignee history

1997–2003Based in Menlo Park, CA, US· patent location history

1998–2003Patents assigned to SILICON GRAPHICS INC (13)· patent assignee history

1998–2014Based in Atherton, CA, US· patent location history

1999–2011Patents assigned to MIPS TECH INC (8)· patent assignee history

2000–2011Patents assigned to NINTENDO CO LTD (21)· patent assignee history

2002–2006Patents assigned to ATI TECHNOLOGIES INC (6)· patent assignee history

2002–2003Based in Ath, CA, US· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
NINTENDO CO LTD	21	2000–2011
SILICON GRAPHICS INC	13	1998–2003
MIPS TECH INC	8	1999–2011
ATI TECHNOLOGIES INC	6	2002–2006
SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC	6	1997–2001

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Atherton, California, US	38	1998–2014
Menlo Park, California, US	13	1997–2003
Ath, California, US	3	2002–2003