Inventor · Childwickbury, GB

John W. Howson

145Patents
9h-index
33Co-inventors
80Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 14, 2003 → Apr 18, 2024

Most-cited inventions

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US9424685B2 Unified rasterization and ray tracing rendering environments Physics 42 Active
US9352456B2 Power tool with force sensing electronic clutch Physics 31 Active
US9314900B2 Handheld grinder with a brushless electric motor Electricity 22 Active
US9953456B2 Untransformed display lists in a tile based rendering system Physics 12 Active
US6809730B2 Depth based blending for 3D graphics systems Physics 11 Expired
US8502829B2 Multi-core geometry processing in a tile based rendering system Physics 9 Active
US10438397B2 Reduced acceleration structures for ray tracing systems Physics 9 Active
US10395336B2 Computing systems and methods for processing graphics data using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space Electricity 9 Active
US8046761B2 Scalable multi-threaded media processing architecture Physics 9 Active
US10489962B1 Hybrid hierarchy of bounding and grid structures for ray tracing Physics 7 Active
US10565772B2 Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering complexity using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space Physics 6 Active
US10217266B2 Unified rasterization and ray tracing rendering environments Physics 6 Active
US7978199B2 Parameter compaction in tile based rendering device Physics 5 Active
US10453164B2 Tile based computer graphics Physics 5 Active
US10902550B2 Computing systems and methods for processing graphics data using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space Electricity 5 Active
US10249085B2 Graphics processing method and system for processing sub-primitives using sub-primitive indications in a control stream Physics 4 Active
US9299187B2 Opacity testing for processing primitives in a 3D graphics processing system Physics 4 Active
US10255653B2 Task assembly for SIMD processing Physics 4 Active
US8446409B2 Method and apparatus for rendering computer graphic images of translucent and opaque objects Physics 4 Active
US9633405B2 Tile based computer graphics Physics 4 Active
US9105131B2 Multi-core geometry processing in a tile based rendering system Physics 4 Active
US8310487B2 Multi-core geometry processing in a tile based rendering system Physics 3 Active
US10210649B2 Graphics processing method and system for processing sub-primitives using cached graphics data hierarchy Physics 3 Active
US9928563B2 Tile-based graphics Physics 3 Active
US11348197B2 Computing systems and methods for processing graphics data using cost indications for sets of tiles of a rendering space Electricity 3 Active

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