Andrew D. Bowen
24Patents
15h-index
34Co-inventors
77Inventor score
Filing activity: Nov 12, 1991 → Sep 29, 2004
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5659671A | Method and apparatus for shading graphical images in a data processing system | Physics | 83 | Expired |
| US6292200A | Apparatus and method for utilizing multiple rendering pipes for a single 3-D display | Physics | 59 | Expired |
| US6147695A | System and method for combining multiple video streams | Physics | 56 | Expired |
| US6731289B1 | Extended range pixel display system and method | Physics | 45 | Expired |
| US6329996A | Method and apparatus for synchronizing graphics pipelines | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US6614440B1 | System and method for load balancing in a multi-channel graphics system | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US5319606A | Blocked flash write in dynamic RAM devices | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US7400325B1 | Culling before setup in viewport and culling unit | Physics | 23 | Active |
| US6385267B1 | System and method for locking disparate video formats | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US7339590B1 | Vertex processing unit supporting vertex texture mapping | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US5434967A | Decision variable hardware logic and processing methods for graphics display system | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US6774868B1 | Method for tiling multiple displays to generate a large area display of moving data | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US5367632A | Flexible memory controller for graphics applications | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US5257237A | SAM data selection on dual-ported DRAM devices | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US5404448A | Multi-pixel access memory system | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US7292239B1 | Cull before attribute read | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US6304300A | Floating point gamma correction method and system | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US6567092B1 | Method for interfacing to ultra-high resolution output devices | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US7400326B1 | System and method for delivering multiple data streams via multiple buses | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US5526471A | Rendering of non-opaque media using the p-buffer to account for polarization parameters | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US5720020A | Hardware based graphics workstation solution for refraction phenomena | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US5815157A | Method and apparatus for texture border address mapping in rectangular coordinates | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US8624906B2 | Method and system for non stalling pipeline instruction fetching from memory | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US7233334B1 | Storage buffers with reference counters to improve utilization | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 2 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.