Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Kevin Rushforth

15Patents
12h-index
24Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 16, 1987 → May 26, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4928247A Method and apparatus for the continuous and asynchronous traversal and processing of graphics data structures Physics 104 Expired
US4873515A Computer graphics pixel processing system Physics 58 Expired
US6570564B1 Method and apparatus for rapid processing of scene-based programs Physics 44 Expired
US5097411A Graphics workstation for creating graphics data structure which are stored retrieved and displayed by a graphics subsystem for competing programs Physics 40 Expired
US6765571B2 Using a master controller to manage threads and resources for scene-based rendering Physics 31 Expired
US5982375A Floating point processor for a three-dimensional graphics accelerator which includes single-pass stereo capability Electricity 31 Expired
US5251322A Method of operating a computer graphics system including asynchronously traversing its nodes Physics 24 Expired
US7061486B2 Using messaging to manage scene-based rendering Physics 20 Expired
US5914724A Lighting unit for a three-dimensional graphics accelerator with improved handling of incoming color values Physics 16 Expired
US7170511B2 Creating a parallel structure for scene-based rendering Physics 14 Expired
US7800614B2 Efficient communication in a client-server scene graph system Physics 12 Active
US6734852B2 Using rendering molecules to manage scene-based rendering Physics 12 Expired
US7184038B2 Using render bin parallelism for rendering scene graph based graphics data Physics 12 Expired
US7408549B1 Method for hardware sorted fragment composition Physics 1 Expired
US9142044B2 Apparatus, systems and methods for layout of scene graphs using node bounding areas Physics 0 Active

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