Stephen D. Lew
55Patents
16h-index
56Co-inventors
87Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 27, 1993 → Jan 16, 2014
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7861060B1 | Parallel data processing systems and methods using cooperative thread arrays and thread identifier values to determine processing behavior | Physics | 169 | Active |
| US5510857A | Motion estimation coprocessor | Physics | 151 | Expired |
| US5486876A | Video interface unit for mapping physical image data to logical tiles | Electricity | 134 | Expired |
| US6825847B1 | System and method for real-time compression of pixel colors | Physics | 107 | Expired |
| US7788468B1 | Synchronization of threads in a cooperative thread array | Physics | 85 | Expired |
| US5448310A | Motion estimation coprocessor | Physics | 73 | Expired |
| US7492368B1 | Apparatus, system, and method for coalescing parallel memory requests | Physics | 68 | Expired |
| US5699460A | Image compression coprocessor with data flow control and multiple processing units | Electricity | 64 | Expired |
| US7526634B1 | Counter-based delay of dependent thread group execution | Physics | 45 | Active |
| US7466316B1 | Apparatus, system, and method for distributing work to integrated heterogeneous processors | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 37 | Expired |
| US8253750B1 | Digital media processor | Physics | 37 | Active |
| US6982722B1 | System for programmable dithering of video data | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US7508448B1 | Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor | Electricity | 28 | Active |
| US7176878B2 | Backlight dimming and LCD amplitude boost | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US7446773B1 | Apparatus, system, and method for integrated heterogeneous processors with integrated scheduler | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 22 | Expired |
| US6975329B2 | Depth-of-field effects using texture lookup | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US7898545B1 | Apparatus, system, and method for integrated heterogeneous processors | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 14 | Active |
| US7274373B1 | System, method and computer program product for providing arbitrary texture filtering | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US8203562B1 | Apparatus, system, and method for distributing work to integrated heterogeneous processors | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 12 | Active |
| US7937567B1 | Methods for scalably exploiting parallelism in a parallel processing system | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US8112614B2 | Parallel data processing systems and methods using cooperative thread arrays with unique thread identifiers as an input to compute an identifier of a location in a shared memory | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US7903123B1 | System for programmable dithering of video data | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US7779191B2 | Platform-based idle-time processing | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US7511714B1 | Video format conversion using 3D graphics pipeline of a GPU | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US7876378B1 | Method and apparatus for filtering video data using a programmable graphics processor | Electricity | 6 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.