Byron A. Alcorn
86Patents
19h-index
61Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 16, 1990 → Jun 30, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US8533775B2 | Hierarchical policy management | Physics | 156 | Active |
| US6000019A | SDRAM data allocation system and method utilizing dual bank storage and retrieval | Physics | 129 | Expired |
| US5185856A | Arithmetic and logic processing unit for computer graphics system | Physics | 83 | Expired |
| US5995121A | Multiple graphics pipeline integration with a windowing system through the use of a high speed interconnect to the frame buffer | Physics | 74 | Expired |
| US6157743A | Method for retrieving compressed texture data from a memory system | Physics | 70 | Expired |
| US5719600A | Gradient calculation system and method | Physics | 55 | Expired |
| US6891533B1 | Compositing separately-generated three-dimensional images | Physics | 55 | Expired |
| US5745118A | 3D bypass for download of textures | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| US6243081A | Data structure for efficient retrieval of compressed texture data from a memory system | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US10162784B2 | Adapter for transmitting signals | Physics | 33 | Active |
| US5012163A | Method and apparatus for gamma correcting pixel value data in a computer graphics system | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US5224210A | Method and apparatus for graphics pipeline context switching in a multi-tasking windows system | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US5251296A | Methods and apparatus for generating arbitrarily addressed, arbitrarily shaped tiles in computer graphics systems | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US6882346B1 | System and method for efficiently rendering graphical data | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US6122000A | Synchronization of left/right channel display and vertical refresh in multi-display stereoscopic computer graphics systems | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
| US5886706A | System for managing texture mapping data in a computer graphics system | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US6157395A | Synchronization of frame buffer swapping in multi-pipeline computer graphics display systems | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US5801708A | MIP map texture storage by dividing and allocating among multiple blocks | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US5193148A | Method and apparatus for pixel clipping source and destination windows in a graphics system | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US5448264A | Method and apparatus for separate window clipping and display mode planes in a graphics frame buffer | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US6891548B2 | System and method for calculating a texture-mapping gradient | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US5420980A | Methods and apparatus for graphics pipeline relative addressing in a multi-tasking windows system | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US6864895B1 | Pseudo-linear frame buffer mapping system and method | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US6724396B1 | Graphics data storage in a linearly allocated multi-banked memory | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US5301269A | Window-relative dither circuit | Physics | 15 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.