Inventor · Santa Clara, CA, US

Chris Malachowsky

35Patents
14h-index
17Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 14, 1988 → Nov 22, 2010

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4908780A Anti-aliasing raster operations utilizing sub-pixel crossing information to control pixel shading Physics 111 Expired
US5127098A Method and apparatus for the context switching of devices Physics 111 Expired
US5543824A Apparatus for selecting frame buffers for display in a double buffered display system Physics 94 Expired
US5159665A Graphics accelerator system Physics 54 Expired
US5742788A Method and apparatus for providing a configurable display memory for single buffered and double buffered application programs to be run singly or simultaneously Physics 50 Expired
US4956801A Matrix arithmetic circuit for processing matrix transformation operations Physics 45 Expired
US5638535A Method and apparatus for providing flow control with lying for input/output operations in a computer system Physics 40 Expired
US5577232A Method and apparatus for allowing computer circuitry to function with updated versions of computer software Physics 30 Expired
US5070443A Apparatus for write handshake in high-speed asynchronous bus interface Physics 25 Expired
US5287487A Predictive caching method and apparatus for generating a predicted address for a frame buffer Physics 25 Expired
US5237650A Method and apparatus for spatial anti-aliased depth cueing Physics 25 Expired
US5079696A Apparatus for read handshake in high-speed asynchronous bus interface Physics 17 Expired
US7428824B1 Method and system for making and vending ice Performing Operations; Transporting 17 Expired
US6075544A Method and apparatus for accelerating rendering by coalescing data accesses Physics 15 Expired
US5079545A Apparatus and method for processing graphical information to minimize page crossings and eliminate processing of information outside a predetermined clip window Physics 14 Expired
US5129065A Apparatus and methods for interface register handshake for controlling devices Physics 13 Expired
US5128872A Method and apparatus for determining line positions for display and manipulation by a computer system Physics 11 Expired
US5157764A Apparatus and method for using a test window in a graphics subsystem which incorporates hardware to perform clipping of images Physics 11 Expired
US5504855A Method and apparatus for providing fast multi-color storage in a frame buffer Physics 9 Expired
US7729507B1 System and method for stabilizing a rear view image Electricity 8 Active
US5020002A Method and apparatus for decomposing a quadrilateral figure for display and manipulation by a computer system Physics 8 Expired
US4958146A Multiplexor implementation for raster operations including foreground and background colors Physics 8 Expired
US5805133A Method and apparatus for increasing the rate of scrolling in a frame buffer system designed for windowing operations Physics 8 Expired
US8579155B2 Method and system for making and vending ice Performing Operations; Transporting 8 Active
US5038309A Number conversion apparatus Electricity 7 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.