Ross Cunniff
18Patents
9h-index
37Co-inventors
68Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 23, 1995 → Aug 4, 2014
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.