Inventor · Fort Collins, CO, US

Ross Cunniff

18Patents
9h-index
37Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 23, 1995 → Aug 4, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7969444B1 Distributed rendering of texture data Physics 47 Active
US5842015A System and method for real-time control of hardware in a multiprocessing environment Physics 46 Expired
US6476806B1 Method and apparatus for performing occlusion testing while exploiting frame to frame temporal coherence Physics 37 Expired
US5936632A Method for fast downloading of textures to accelerated graphics hardware and the elimination of extra software copies of texels Physics 31 Expired
US8542247B1 Cull before vertex attribute fetch and vertex lighting Physics 20 Active
US6518968B1 Method and apparatus for performing H-space bump mapping suitable for implementation with H-space lighting in a graphics pipeline of a computer graphics display system Physics 19 Expired
US5945992A Multilevel, client-server, large model traverser Physics 13 Expired
US6396502B1 System and method for implementing accumulation buffer operations in texture mapping hardware Physics 11 Expired
US5771045A Method for polygon decomposition Physics 9 Expired
US7528839B1 Faster clears for three-dimensional modeling applications Physics 7 Expired
US9832388B2 Deinterleaving interleaved high dynamic range image by using YUV interpolation Physics 7 Active
US8564616B1 Cull before vertex attribute fetch and vertex lighting Physics 6 Active
US8866833B2 System, method, and computer program product for providing a dynamic display refresh Physics 5 Active
US6727899B2 System and method for occlusion culling graphical data Physics 4 Expired
US8253749B1 Using affinity masks to control multi-GPU processing Physics 4 Active
US7623730B2 System and method that compensate for rotations of textures defined by parametric texture maps Physics 2 Active
US7425956B1 System and method for occlusion testing with deferred rendering Physics 2 Expired
US7898549B1 Faster clears for three-dimensional modeling applications Physics 1 Active

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