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S3 GROUP LTD.

101Patents
1Active
101Granted
55Portfolio score

Filing activity: Aug 11, 1992 → Dec 3, 2021

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5848264A Debug and video queue for multi-processor chip Physics 187 Expired
US5392239A Burst-mode DRAM Chemistry; Metallurgy 153 Expired
US5828578A Microprocessor with a large cache shared by redundant CPUs for increasing manufacturing yield Physics 125 Expired
US5517626A Open high speed bus for microcomputer system Physics 101 Expired
US5828383A Controller for processing different pixel data types stored in the same display memory by use of tag bits Physics 97 Expired
US5956431A System and method for fixed-rate block-based image compression with inferred pixel values Electricity 90 Expired
US6144365A System and method for performing blending using an over sampling buffer Physics 88 Expired
US5977933A Dual image computer display controller Physics 86 Expired
US5948083A System and method for self-adjusting data strobe Electricity 78 Expired
US5945997A Block- and band-oriented traversal in three-dimensional triangle rendering Physics 76 Expired
US5426756A Memory controller and method determining empty/full status of a FIFO memory using gray code counters Physics 75 Expired
US6005546A Hardware assist for YUV data format conversion to software MPEG decoder Physics 74 Expired
US5875235A Transformerless data access arrangement Electricity 73 Expired
US5889499A System and method for the mixing of graphics and video signals Physics 65 Expired
US5822602A Pipelined processor for executing repeated string instructions by halting dispatch after comparision to pipeline capacity Physics 61 Expired
US6044448A Processor having multiple datapath instances Physics 59 Expired
US6034733A Timing and control for deinterlacing and enhancement of non-deterministically arriving interlaced video data Physics 58 Expired
US6093029A Vertically stackable integrated circuit Electricity 57 Expired
US5748126A Sigma-delta digital-to-analog conversion system and process through reconstruction and resampling Electricity 53 Expired
US5862390A Mixed voltage, multi-rail, high drive, low noise, adjustable slew rate input/output buffer Electricity 53 Expired
US6041419A Programmable delay timing calibrator for high speed data interface Physics 52 Expired
US6052133A Multi-function controller and method for a computer graphics display system Physics 51 Expired
US6128026A Double buffered graphics and video accelerator having a write blocking memory interface and method of doing the same Physics 50 Expired
US5977960A Apparatus, systems and methods for controlling data overlay in multimedia data processing and display systems using mask techniques Physics 48 Expired
US6011565A Non-stalled requesting texture cache Physics 45 Expired

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