Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Eric Demers

28Patents
6h-index
67Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 23, 1998 → Oct 16, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6639595B1 Achromatic lighting in a graphics system and method Physics 103 Expired
US7633506B1 Parallel pipeline graphics system Physics 90 Expired
US6417858B1 Processor for geometry transformations and lighting calculations Physics 76 Expired
US6700586B1 Low cost graphics with stitching processing hardware support for skeletal animation Physics 75 Expired
US7307640B2 Method and apparatus for efficient generation of texture coordinate displacements for implementing emboss-style bump mapping in a graphics rendering system Physics 28 Expired
US7748869B2 Recessed lighting fixtures with projector accessory Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 15 Active
US6980218B1 Method and apparatus for efficient generation of texture coordinate displacements for implementing emboss-style bump mapping in a graphics rendering system Physics 6 Expired
US9218289B2 Multi-core compute cache coherency with a release consistency memory ordering model Physics 5 Active
US7280119B2 Method and apparatus for sampling on a non-power-of-two pixel grid Physics 4 Expired
US11204765B1 Deferred GPR allocation for texture/load instruction block Physics 3 Active
US8615637B2 Systems and methods for processing memory requests in a multi-processor system using a probe engine Physics 2 Active
US7044452B2 Hydraulic turbine draft tube deflector with enhanced dissolved oxygen Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Expired
US7656416B2 Apparatus for generating anti-aliased and stippled 3d lines, points and surfaces using multi-dimensional procedural texture coordinates Physics 2 Expired
US7796133B1 Unified shader Physics 1 Expired
US8933945B2 Dividing work among multiple graphics pipelines using a super-tiling technique Physics 0 Active
US11954758B2 Dynamic wave pairing Physics 0 Active
US12229215B2 Performing matrix multiplication in a streaming processor Physics 0 Active
US12229864B2 Runtime mechanism to optimize shader execution flow Physics 0 Active
US12067666B2 Run-time mechanism for optimal shader Physics 0 Active
US7109992B2 Apparatus for generating efficient wide-line ends Physics 0 Expired
US11132760B2 Graphics instruction operands alias Physics 0 Active
US10509588B2 System and method for controlling memory frequency using feed-forward compression statistics Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US7545387B2 Method and apparatus for sampling on a non-power-of-two pixel grid Physics 0 Active
US10558460B2 General purpose register allocation in streaming processor Physics 0 Active
US9489313B2 Conditional page fault control for page residency Physics 0 Active

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