Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Simon Moy

41Patents
18h-index
27Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 6, 1999 → Dec 14, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6947047B1 Method and system for programmable pipelined graphics processing with branching instructions Physics 146 Expired
US6198488A Transform, lighting and rasterization system embodied on a single semiconductor platform Physics 100 Expired
US7310722B2 Across-thread out of order instruction dispatch in a multithreaded graphics processor Physics 55 Expired
US6650330B2 Graphics system and method for processing multiple independent execution threads Physics 55 Expired
US6353439B1 System, method and computer program product for a blending operation in a transform module of a computer graphics pipeline Physics 54 Expired
US8087029B1 Thread-type-based load balancing in a multithreaded processor Physics 44 Active
US6734874B2 Graphics processing unit with transform module capable of handling scalars and vectors Physics 42 Expired
US6462737B2 Clipping system and method for a graphics processing framework embodied on a single semiconductor platform Physics 42 Expired
US6650331B2 System, method and computer program product for performing a scissor operation in a graphics processing framework embodied on a single semiconductor platform Physics 40 Expired
US7095414B2 Blending system and method in an integrated computer graphics pipeline Physics 40 Expired
US7009607B2 Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for a transform module in a graphics processor Physics 39 Expired
US7002588B1 System, method and computer program product for branching during programmable vertex processing Physics 37 Expired
US6577309B2 System and method for a graphics processing framework embodied utilizing a single semiconductor platform Physics 37 Expired
US6992667B2 Single semiconductor graphics platform system and method with skinning, swizzling and masking capabilities Physics 36 Expired
US7064763B2 Single semiconductor graphics platform Physics 36 Expired
US6778176B2 Sequencer system and method for sequencing graphics processing Physics 30 Expired
US7676657B2 Across-thread out-of-order instruction dispatch in a multithreaded microprocessor Physics 27 Active
US8108872B1 Thread-type-based resource allocation in a multithreaded processor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Active
US7103720B1 Shader cache using a coherency protocol Physics 18 Expired
US6417851B1 Method and apparatus for lighting module in a graphics processor Physics 17 Expired
US6342888B1 Graphics processing unit with an integrated fog and blending operation Physics 17 Expired
US6515671B1 Method, apparatus and article of manufacture for a vertex attribute buffer in a graphics processor Physics 17 Expired
US7027062B2 Register based queuing for texture requests Physics 12 Expired
US7339592B2 Simulating multiported memories using lower port count memories Physics 9 Expired
US7050055B2 Single semiconductor graphics platform with blending and fog capabilities Physics 8 Expired

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