Inventor · Boulder, CO, US

Joel J. McCormack

27Patents
14h-index
45Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 1, 1994 → Sep 26, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6204859A Method and apparatus for compositing colors of images with memory constraints for storing pixel data Physics 184 Expired
US6128000A Full-scene antialiasing using improved supersampling techniques Physics 114 Expired
US6112318A Performance counters controlled by programmable logic Physics 77 Expired
US6292193A Techniques for anisotropic texture mapping using multiple space-invariant filtering operations per pixel Physics 73 Expired
US6633297B2 System and method for producing an antialiased image using a merge buffer Physics 65 Expired
US6112267A Hierarchical ring buffers for buffering data between processor and I/O device permitting data writes by processor and data reads by I/O device simultaneously directed at different buffers at different levels Physics 49 Expired
US5781201A Method for providing improved graphics performance through atypical pixel storage in video memory Physics 40 Expired
US5870109A Graphic system with read/write overlap detector Physics 37 Expired
US5559953A Method for increasing the performance of lines drawn into a framebuffer memory Physics 35 Expired
US6714196B2 Method and apparatus for tiled polygon traversal Physics 28 Expired
US6085292A Apparatus and method for providing non-blocking pipelined cache Physics 21 Expired
US6329977A Pre-filtered antialiased lines using distance functions Physics 20 Expired
US7336283B2 Efficient hardware A-buffer using three-dimensional allocation of fragment memory Physics 18 Expired
US5696945A Method for quickly painting and copying shallow pixels on a deep frame buffer Physics 15 Expired
US9348762B2 Technique for accessing content-addressable memory Physics 9 Active
US7649538B1 Reconfigurable high performance texture pipeline with advanced filtering Physics 8 Active
US7916149B1 Block linear memory ordering of texture data Physics 6 Active
US7081903B2 Efficient movement of fragment stamp Physics 5 Expired
US8930636B2 Relaxed coherency between different caches Physics 4 Active
US6109777A Division with limited carry-propagation in quotient accumulation Physics 3 Expired
US7884831B2 Reconfigurable high-performance texture pipeline with advanced filtering Physics 3 Active
US9595075B2 Load/store operations in texture hardware Physics 2 Active
US8456481B2 Block linear memory ordering of texture data techniques Physics 1 Active
US8436868B2 Block linear memory ordering of texture data Physics 1 Active
US9448935B2 Surface resource view hash for coherent cache operations in texture processing hardware Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active

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