Inventor
William P. Newhall, Jr.
Inventor
San Francisco, CA, US
Overview
Patents· 26 as inventor
Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.
G06Tprimary
G06TImage data processing or generation, in general74%
G06FElectric digital data processing12%
G06NComputing arrangements based on specific computational models6%
G09GArrangements or circuits for control of indicating devices using static means to present variable information6%
G06VImage or video recognition or understanding3%
PatentTitleYear
10,885,698Method for programmable timeouts of tree traversal mechanisms in hardware202110,867,429Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal202010,825,232Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention202010,825,230Watertight ray triangle intersection202010,810,785Method for forward progress tree traversal mechanisms in hardware202010,740,952Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive intersections202010,580,196Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention202010,255,075System, method, and computer program product for managing out-of-order execution of program instructions20198,803,879'Omnidirectional shadow texture mapping'20148,648,856'Omnidirectional shadow texture mapping'20148,068,118'System and method for modifying a number of texture samples for anisotropic texture filtering'20117,948,500'Extrapolation of nonresident mipmap data using resident mipmap data'20117,944,453'Extrapolation texture filtering for nonresident mipmaps'20117,924,290'Method and system for processing texture samples with programmable offset positions'20117,595,806'Method and system for implementing level of detail filtering in a cube mapping application'20097,558,400'Anisotropic texture filtering optimization'20097,525,551'Anisotropic texture prefiltering'20097,382,377'Render to texture cull'20087,372,468'Anisotropic texture filtering with a modified number of texture samples'20087,372,467'System and method for modifying a number of texture samples for anisotropic texture filtering'20087,339,594'Optimized anisotropic texture sampling'20087,271,810'Spread-compensated anisotropic texture sampling'20077,167,183'Reorganized anisotropic sampling order'20076,876,362'Omnidirectional shadow texture mapping'20056,489,955'Ray intersection reduction using directionally classified target lists'20026,323,870'Texture alpha discrimination a method and apparatus for selective texture modulation in a real time graphics pipeline'2001Career & activity timeline
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2001–2002Patents assigned to INTEL CORP (2)· patent assignee history
2001–2002Based in Mountain View, CA, US· patent location history
2005–2021Patents assigned to NVIDIA CORP (24)· patent assignee history
2005–2014Based in San Francisco, CA, US· patent location history
2011–2014Patents assigned to NEWHALL JR WILLIAM P (3)· patent assignee history
2011Patents assigned to TOKSVIG MICHAEL J M (1)· patent assignee history
2014Patents assigned to KILGARD MARK J (2)· patent assignee history
2019–2021Based in Woodside, CA, US· patent location history
Inventor activity
Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.
Assignees
| Assignee | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA CORP | 24 | 2005–2021 |
| NEWHALL JR WILLIAM Pself | 3 | 2011–2014 |
| INTEL CORP | 2 | 2001–2002 |
| KILGARD MARK J | 2 | 2014 |
| TOKSVIG MICHAEL J M | 1 | 2011 |
Locations
| Location | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco, California, US | 16 | 2005–2014 |
| Woodside, California, US | 8 | 2019–2021 |
| Mountain View, California, US | 2 | 2001–2002 |