Inventor · Milpitas, CA, US

Patrick Law

76Patents
19h-index
108Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 4, 1990 → Nov 1, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7034828B1 Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics system Physics 155 Expired
US5867153A Method and system for automatically harmonizing access to a software application program via different access devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 133 Expired
US6664958B1 Z-texturing Physics 131 Expired
US7176919B2 Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics system Physics 114 Expired
US6580430B1 Method and apparatus for providing improved fog effects in a graphics system Physics 103 Expired
US6133901A Method and system for width independent antialiasing Physics 82 Expired
US5638533A Method and apparatus for providing data to a parallel processing array Physics 54 Expired
US6332131A Method and system for automatically harmonizing access to a software application program via different access devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 50 Expired
US8548909B1 Method and system for building an internet portal Physics 49 Active
US7996670B1 Classification engine in a cryptography acceleration chip Electricity 48 Expired
USD453766S1 Icon for a personal computer General 46 Expired
US8924752B1 Power management for a graphics processing unit or other circuit Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 36 Active
US7600131B1 Distributed processing in a cryptography acceleration chip Electricity 33 Expired
US9390461B1 Graphics hardware mode controls Physics 26 Active
US11009938B1 Power management for a graphics processing unit or other circuit Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Active
US7177421B2 Authentication engine architecture and method Electricity 24 Expired
US8533403B1 Arbitration unit for memory system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Active
US7061502B1 Method and apparatus for providing logical combination of N alpha operations within a graphics system Physics 22 Expired
US5671020A Method and apparatus for improved video filter processing using efficient pixel register and data organization Electricity 19 Expired
US7349028B2 Method and system for motion adaptive deinterlacer with integrated directional filter Electricity 17 Expired
US9250665B2 GPU with dynamic performance adjustment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Active
US7412096B2 Method and system for interpolator direction selection during edge detection Electricity 16 Expired
US7057664B2 Method and system for converting interlaced formatted video to progressive scan video using a color edge detection scheme Electricity 15 Expired
US6091425A Constant multisample image coverage mask Physics 13 Expired
US7062657B2 Methods and apparatus for hardware normalization and denormalization Electricity 10 Expired

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