Inventor

Michael Apodaca

Inventor

Folsom, CA, US

Overview

2016–2021

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 65 as inventor

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

G06Tprimary

G06TImage data processing or generation, in general45%

G06FElectric digital data processing28%

G09GArrangements or circuits for control of indicating devices using static means to present variable information11%

Y02DClimate change mitigation technologies in information and communication technologies [ict], i.e. information and communication technologies aiming at the reduction of their own energy use5%

H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television4%

Y02BClimate change mitigation technologies related to buildings, e.g. housing, house appliances or related end-user applications2%

G02BOptical elements, systems or apparatus2%

H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication2%

H04SStereophonic systems2%

G06NComputing arrangements based on specific computational models1%

PatentTitleYear

11,132,759Mutli-frame renderer2021 11,069,123Cloud-based realtime raytracing2021 11,062,506Tile-based immediate mode rendering with early hierarchical-z2021 11,037,269High-speed resume for GPU applications2021 11,030,713Extended local memory including compressed on-chip vertex data2021 11,004,252Real time ray tracing (RTRT)-based adaptive multi-frequency shading (AMFS)2021 10,997,771Position-based rendering apparatus and method for multi-die/GPU graphics processing2021 10,997,686Workload scheduling and distribution on a distributed graphics device2021 10,997,772Dynamic constant update mechanism2021 10,983,594Sensory enhanced augmented reality and virtual reality device2021 10,964,091Augmented reality and virtual reality feedback enhancement system, apparatus and method2021 10,942,740Transitionary pre-emption for virtual reality related contexts2021 10,937,126Tile-based multiple resolution rendering of images2021 10,930,060Conditional shader for graphics2021 10,921,884Virtual reality/augmented reality apparatus and method2021 10,908,865Collaborative multi-user virtual reality2021 10,911,799Video refinement mechanism2021 10,893,299Surface normal vector processing mechanism2021 10,891,774Method and apparatus for profile-guided graphics processing optimizations2021 10,885,880Programmable controller and command cache for graphics processors2021 10,867,427Multi-resolution image plane rendering within an improved graphics processor microarchitecture2020 10,861,126Asynchronous execution mechanism2020 10,846,814Patch processing mechanism2020 10,803,656Anti-aliasing adaptive shader with pixel tile coverage raster rule system, apparatus and method2020 10,796,472Method and apparatus for simultaneously executing multiple contexts on a graphics engine2020 10,796,397Facilitating dynamic runtime transformation of graphics processing commands for improved graphics performance at computing devices2020 10,762,668Context-aware compression with quantization of hierarchical transform matrices2020 10,755,469Apparatus and method for ray tracing instruction processing and execution2020 10,748,234Reducing power for 3D workloads2020 10,740,953Early termination in bottom-up acceleration data structure refit2020 10,733,693High vertex count geometry work distribution for multi-tile GPUs2020 10,733,690GPU mixed primitive topology type processing2020 10,728,492Synergistic temporal anti-aliasing and coarse pixel shading technology2020 10,706,612Tile-based immediate mode rendering with early hierarchical-z2020 10,706,591Controlling coarse pixel size from a stencil buffer2020 10,699,475Multi-pass apparatus and method for early termination of graphics shading2020 10,672,176Apparatus and method for processing commands in tile-based renderers2020 10,643,374Positional only shading pipeline (POSH) geometry data processing with coarse Z buffer2020 10,572,258Transitionary pre-emption for virtual reality related contexts2020 10,573,066Anti-aliasing adaptive shader with pixel tile coverage raster rule system, apparatus and method2020 10,558,496Techniques for accessing a graphical processing unit memory by an application2020 10,552,934Reducing memory latency in graphics operations2020 10,522,114Programmable controller and command cache for graphics processors2019 10,453,241Multi-resolution image plane rendering within an improved graphics processor microarchitecture2019 10,430,147Collaborative multi-user virtual reality2019 10,401,954Sensory enhanced augmented reality and virtual reality device2019 10,402,345Deferred discard in tile-based rendering2019 10,379,611Virtual reality/augmented reality apparatus and method2019 10,242,494Conditional shader for graphics2019 10,242,486Augmented reality and virtual reality feedback enhancement system, apparatus and method2019 10,210,655Position only shader context submission through a render command streamer2019 10,204,394Multi-frame renderer2019 10,192,351Anti-aliasing adaptive shader with pixel tile coverage raster rule system, apparatus and method2019 10,192,281Graphics command parsing mechanism2019 10,134,314Reducing power for 3D workloads2018 10,109,078Controlling coarse pixel size from a stencil buffer2018 10,068,307Command processing for graphics tile-based rendering2018 10,013,734Programmable controller and command cache for graphics processors2018 9,916,634'Facilitating efficient graphics command generation and execution for improved graphics performance at computing devices'2018 9,881,352'Facilitating efficient graphics commands processing for bundled states at computing devices'2018 9,864,638'Techniques for accessing a graphical processing unit memory by an application'2018 9,747,657'Reducing power for 3D workloads'2017 9,601,092'Dynamically managing memory footprint for tile based rendering'2017 9,594,697'Apparatus and method for asynchronous tile-based rendering control'2017 9,355,465'Dynamic programmable texture sampler for flexible filtering of graphical texture data'2016

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

2016–2021Patents assigned to INTEL CORP (65)· patent assignee history

2016–2018Patents assigned to APODACA MICHAEL (4)· patent assignee history

2016Patents assigned to NEYMAN ALEKSANDER OLEK (1)· patent assignee history

2016–2021Based in Folsom, CA, US· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
INTEL CORP	65	2016–2021
APODACA MICHAELself	4	2016–2018
NEYMAN ALEKSANDER OLEK	1	2016

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Folsom, California, US	65	2016–2021