Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Stephen D. Lew

55Patents
16h-index
56Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 27, 1993 → Jan 16, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.