Ralph C. Taylor
31Patents
10h-index
48Co-inventors
75Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 1, 1998 → Oct 19, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6518974B2 | Pixel engine | Physics | 52 | Expired |
| US6943800B2 | Method and apparatus for updating state data | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US6204857A | Method and apparatus for effective level of detail selection | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US6191793A | Method and apparatus for texture level of detail dithering | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US6072505A | Method and apparatus to efficiently interpolate polygon attributes in two dimensions at a prescribed clock rate | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US7050063B1 | 3-D rendering texture caching scheme | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US6630935B1 | Geometric engine including a computational module for use in a video graphics controller | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US6507348B1 | Method and apparatus for clipping an object element in accordance with a clip volume | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US6639598B2 | Method and apparatus for effective level of detail selection | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US6433790B1 | Methods and systems for rendering line and point features for display | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US7577869B2 | Apparatus with redundant circuitry and method therefor | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US6967664B1 | Method and apparatus for primitive processing in a graphics system | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US10074210B1 | Punch-through techniques for graphics processing | Physics | 7 | Active |
| US6784888B2 | Method and apparatus for executing a predefined instruction set | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US10990445B2 | Hardware resource allocation system for allocating resources to threads | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US6552733B1 | Configurable vertex blending circuit and method therefore | Physics | 2 | Expired |
| US12086644B2 | Logical slot to hardware slot mapping for graphics processors | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US10755383B2 | Multi-space rendering with configurable transformation parameters | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1 | Active |
| US9142057B2 | Processing unit with a plurality of shader engines | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US7594069B2 | Method and apparatus for single instruction multiple data caching | Physics | 1 | Expired |
| US11829298B2 | On-demand memory allocation | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US10242420B2 | Preemptive context switching of processes on an accelerated processing device (APD) based on time quanta | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US12265474B2 | On-demand memory allocation | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US11113788B2 | Multi-space rendering with configurable transformation parameters | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 0 | Active |
| US10223822B2 | Mid-render compute for graphics processing | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.