Inventor · Fremont, CA, US

Robert Laker

14Patents
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19Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 23, 1976 → Feb 14, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5856829A Inverse Z-buffer and video display system having list-based control mechanism for time-deferred instructing of 3D rendering engine that also responds to supervisory immediate commands Physics 106 Expired
US5798762A Controlling a real-time rendering engine using a list-based control mechanism Physics 59 Expired
US6529207B1 Identifying silhouette edges of objects to apply anti-aliasing Physics 44 Expired
US4233601A Display system Electricity 35 Expired
US6115050A Object-based anti-aliasing Physics 34 Expired
US7240157B2 System for handling memory requests and method thereof Physics 22 Expired
US4616217A Visual simulators, computer generated imagery, and display systems Physics 21 Expired
US7538695B2 System and method for deflate processing within a compression engine Electricity 17 Active
US7538696B2 System and method for Huffman decoding within a compression engine Electricity 13 Active
US6094201A Polygon rendering method and system with dedicated setup engine Physics 8 Expired
US6745308B2 Method and system for bypassing memory controller components Physics 8 Expired
US9362948B2 System, method, and computer program product for saving and restoring a compression/decompression state Electricity 6 Active
US4084261A Graphical display apparatus Physics 5 Expired
US8738856B2 System for handling memory requests and method thereof Physics 0 Active

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