Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Emmett M. Kilgariff

79Patents
14h-index
125Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 10, 1997 → Sep 15, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9262797B2 Multi-sample surface processing using one sample Physics 130 Active
US7023437B1 System and method for accelerating graphics processing using a post-geometry data stream during multiple-pass rendering Physics 115 Expired
US6778181B1 Graphics processing system having a virtual texturing array Physics 102 Expired
US6850243B1 System, method and computer program product for texture address operations based on computations involving other textures Physics 40 Expired
US7486290B1 Graphical shader by using delay Physics 35 Expired
US6919904B1 Overbright evaluator system and method Physics 30 Expired
US7218291B2 Increased scalability in the fragment shading pipeline Physics 29 Expired
US5999183A Apparatus for creating a scalable graphics system with efficient memory and bandwidth usage Physics 26 Expired
US8760460B1 Hardware-managed virtual buffers using a shared memory for load distribution Physics 25 Active
US8704836B1 Distributing primitives to multiple rasterizers Physics 24 Active
US8327071B1 Interprocessor direct cache writes Physics 23 Active
US8669999B2 Alpha-to-coverage value determination using virtual samples Physics 23 Active
US8542247B1 Cull before vertex attribute fetch and vertex lighting Physics 20 Active
US7324113B1 Perspective correction computation optimization Physics 15 Expired
US7623132B1 Programmable shader having register forwarding for reduced register-file bandwidth consumption Physics 13 Expired
US9013498B1 Determining a working set of texture maps Physics 13 Active
US7624255B1 Scheduling program instruction execution by using fence instructions Physics 13 Expired
US7385607B2 Scalable shader architecture Physics 12 Expired
US8599202B1 Computing tessellation coordinates using dedicated hardware Physics 11 Active
US6300953A Apparatus and method for grouping texture cache requests Physics 10 Expired
US9710874B2 Mid-primitive graphics execution preemption Physics 9 Active
US9830741B2 Setting downstream render state in an upstream shader Physics 9 Active
US8817031B2 Distributed stream output in a parallel processing unit Physics 8 Active
US7649538B1 Reconfigurable high performance texture pipeline with advanced filtering Physics 8 Active
US7825936B1 Method and system for texture instruction demotion optimization Physics 7 Active

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