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Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation

106Patents
9Active
106Granted
42Portfolio score

Filing activity: Sep 24, 1981 → May 2, 2017 · 5 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5572229A Head-mounted projection display system featuring beam splitter and method of making same Physics 219 Expired
US4855934A System for texturing computer graphics images Physics 119 Expired
US6437789B1 Multi-level cache controller Physics 117 Expired
US4625289A Computer graphics system of general surface rendering by exhaustive sampling Physics 116 Expired
US5699497A Rendering global macro texture, for producing a dynamic image, as on computer generated terrain, seen from a moving viewpoint Physics 109 Expired
US4918626A Computer graphics priority system with antialiasing Physics 105 Expired
US5651104A Computer graphics system and process for adaptive supersampling Physics 100 Expired
US5818456A Computer graphics system with adaptive pixel multisampler Physics 99 Expired
US5361386A System for polygon interpolation using instantaneous values in a variable Physics 98 Expired
US5579456A Direct rendering of textured height fields Physics 87 Expired
US5748867A Image texturing system having theme cells Physics 83 Expired
US4763280A Curvilinear dynamic image generation system Physics 83 Expired
US4646251A Computer graphics, parametric patch parallel subdivision processor Physics 78 Expired
US5870098A Method for rendering shadows on a graphical display Physics 75 Expired
US4954819A Computer graphics windowing system for the display of multiple dynamic images Physics 65 Expired
US5408606A Computer graphics system with parallel processing using a switch structure Physics 64 Expired
US6052125A Method for reducing the rendering load for high depth complexity scenes on a computer graphics display Physics 61 Expired
US5561745A Computer graphics for animation by time-sequenced textures Physics 59 Expired
US4873515A Computer graphics pixel processing system Physics 58 Expired
US5598517A Computer graphics pixel rendering system with multi-level scanning Physics 55 Expired
US5734386A System and method for displaying textured polygons using planar texture interpolation Physics 55 Expired
US5943060A Computer graphics system with adaptive pixel multisampler Physics 53 Expired
US5841447A System and method for improving pixel update performance Physics 53 Expired
US4974155A Variable delay branch system Physics 52 Expired
US5574847A Computer graphics parallel system with temporal priority Physics 47 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.