John Michael Snyder
64Patents
17h-index
54Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 22, 1977 → Dec 16, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5864342A | Method and system for rendering graphical objects to image chunks | Physics | 282 | Expired |
| US6252608A | Method and system for improving shadowing in a graphics rendering system | Physics | 260 | Expired |
| US5977977A | Method and system for multi-pass rendering | Physics | 222 | Expired |
| US6326964A | Method for sorting 3D object geometry among image chunks for rendering in a layered graphics rendering system | Physics | 220 | Expired |
| US5870097A | Method and system for improving shadowing in a graphics rendering system | Physics | 216 | Expired |
| US6016150A | Sprite compositor and method for performing lighting and shading operations using a compositor to combine factored image layers | Physics | 181 | Expired |
| US6064393A | Method for measuring the fidelity of warped image layer approximations in a real-time graphics rendering pipeline | Physics | 114 | Expired |
| US6593925B1 | Parameterized animation compression methods and arrangements | Physics | 97 | Expired |
| US7262770B2 | Graphics image rendering with radiance self-transfer for low-frequency lighting environments | Physics | 90 | Expired |
| US7167176B2 | Clustered principal components for precomputed radiance transfer | Physics | 77 | Expired |
| US6215503A | Image generator and method for resolving non-binary cyclic occlusions with image compositing operations | Physics | 57 | Expired |
| US6648770B1 | Training golf iron | Human Necessities | 52 | Expired |
| US6266064A | Coherent visibility sorting and occlusion cycle detection for dynamic aggregate geometry | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 47 | Expired |
| US9727991B2 | Foveated image rendering | Physics | 36 | Active |
| US9432790B2 | Real-time sound propagation for dynamic sources | Electricity | 35 | Active |
| US7265752B2 | Multi-chart geometry images | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US6919906B2 | Discontinuity edge overdraw | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US7956870B2 | Systems and methods for providing image rendering using variable rate source sampling | Physics | 14 | Active |
| US4117914A | Slidable suitcase handle | Human Necessities | 14 | Expired |
| US9510125B2 | Parametric wave field coding for real-time sound propagation for dynamic sources | Electricity | 13 | Active |
| US7382369B2 | Systems and methods for robust sampling for real-time relighting of objects in natural lighting environments | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US6943805B2 | Systems and methods for providing image rendering using variable rate source sampling | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US7120311B2 | Systems and methods for providing forward mapping with visibility for and resolution of accumulated samples | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| USD433086S | Training golf iron | General | 10 | Expired |
| US7948490B2 | Hardware-accelerated computation of radiance transfer coefficients in computer graphics | Physics | 10 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.