David B. Kirk
52Patents
23h-index
39Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 21, 1977 → Oct 10, 2011
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5875464A | Computer system with private and shared partitions in cache | Physics | 183 | Expired |
| US5097427A | Texture mapping for computer graphics display controller system | Physics | 118 | Expired |
| US5404537A | Priority interrupt switching apparatus for real time systems | Physics | 114 | Expired |
| US6198488A | Transform, lighting and rasterization system embodied on a single semiconductor platform | Physics | 100 | Expired |
| US6181352A | Graphics pipeline selectively providing multiple pixels or multiple textures | Physics | 90 | Expired |
| US6333744A | Graphics pipeline including combiner stages | Physics | 81 | Expired |
| US6532013B1 | System, method and article of manufacture for pixel shaders for programmable shading | Physics | 63 | Expired |
| US6226012A | Method and apparatus for accelerating the rendering of graphical images | Physics | 59 | Expired |
| US6353439B1 | System, method and computer program product for a blending operation in a transform module of a computer graphics pipeline | Physics | 54 | Expired |
| US6239808A | Method and apparatus for determining texture values of graphical images | Physics | 45 | Expired |
| US6462737B2 | Clipping system and method for a graphics processing framework embodied on a single semiconductor platform | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US6734874B2 | Graphics processing unit with transform module capable of handling scalars and vectors | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US6650331B2 | System, method and computer program product for performing a scissor operation in a graphics processing framework embodied on a single semiconductor platform | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US7095414B2 | Blending system and method in an integrated computer graphics pipeline | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US7009607B2 | Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for a transform module in a graphics processor | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US7038692B1 | Method and apparatus for providing a vertex cache | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US6577309B2 | System and method for a graphics processing framework embodied utilizing a single semiconductor platform | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US7064763B2 | Single semiconductor graphics platform | Physics | 36 | Expired |
| US6992667B2 | Single semiconductor graphics platform system and method with skinning, swizzling and masking capabilities | Physics | 36 | Expired |
| US7502010B2 | Variable brightness LCD backlight | Physics | 35 | Active |
| US7142215B1 | Method and apparatus for processing stencil data using a programmable graphics processor | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US6577320B1 | Method and apparatus for processing multiple types of pixel component representations including processes of premultiplication, postmultiplication, and colorkeying/chromakeying | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US7139003B1 | Methods of processing graphics data including reading and writing buffers | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US7136068B1 | Texture cache for a computer graphics accelerator | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US6342888B1 | Graphics processing unit with an integrated fog and blending operation | Physics | 17 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.