Inventor · Cameron Park, CA, US

Peter L. Doyle

67Patents
9h-index
82Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 13, 1987 → Sep 26, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4928247A Method and apparatus for the continuous and asynchronous traversal and processing of graphics data structures Physics 104 Expired
US6885374B2 Apparatus, method and system with a graphics-rendering engine having a time allocator Physics 42 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
US6362826B1 Method and apparatus for implementing dynamic display memory Physics 28 Expired
US5251322A Method of operating a computer graphics system including asynchronously traversing its nodes Physics 24 Expired
US6867779B1 Image rendering Physics 24 Expired
US5155822A High performance graphics workstation Physics 23 Expired
US6560657B1 System and method for controlling peripheral devices Physics 21 Expired
US6650332B2 Method and apparatus for implementing dynamic display memory Physics 10 Expired
US6954208B2 Depth write disable for rendering Physics 8 Expired
US6762765B2 Bandwidth reduction for zone rendering via split vertex buffers Physics 7 Expired
US6747658B2 Automatic memory management for zone rendering Physics 6 Expired
US7280113B1 Multiple texture compositing Physics 6 Expired
US6429873B1 Addressing of monolithic texture maps Physics 5 Expired
US9396032B2 Priority based context preemption Physics 5 Active
US6738069B2 Efficient graphics state management for zone rendering Physics 5 Expired
US7173627B2 Apparatus, method and system with a graphics-rendering engine having a graphics context manager Physics 5 Expired
US6731297B1 Multiple texture compositing Physics 4 Expired
US9824412B2 Position-only shading pipeline Physics 4 Active
US6747657B2 Depth write disable for zone rendering Physics 4 Expired
US6995773B2 Automatic memory management Physics 4 Expired
US6950108B2 Bandwidth reduction for rendering using vertex data Physics 4 Expired
US10963985B2 Mesh shader output management technology Physics 4 Active
US10649524B2 Apparatus and method for foveated rendering, bin comparison and TBIMR memory-backed storage for virtual reality implementations Physics 3 Active
US6747653B2 Efficient object storage for zone rendering Physics 3 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.