Inventor · Chapel Hill, NC, US

Steven E. Molnar

82Patents
20h-index
95Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 13, 1992 → Oct 2, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6825847B1 System and method for real-time compression of pixel colors Physics 107 Expired
US5481669A Architecture and apparatus for image generation utilizing enhanced memory devices Physics 100 Expired
US5388206A Architecture and apparatus for image generation Physics 88 Expired
US6452595B1 Integrated graphics processing unit with antialiasing Physics 88 Expired
US6967663B1 Antialiasing using hybrid supersampling-multisampling Physics 77 Expired
US6853382B1 Controller for a memory system having multiple partitions Physics 67 Expired
US7545382B1 Apparatus, system, and method for using page table entries in a graphics system to provide storage format information for address translation Physics 45 Active
US7382368B1 Planar z representation for z compression Physics 44 Expired
US8228328B1 Early Z testing for multiple render targets Physics 34 Active
US8233004B1 Color-compression using automatic reduction of multi-sampled pixels Physics 32 Active
US8207975B1 Graphics rendering pipeline that supports early-Z and late-Z virtual machines Physics 30 Active
US7511717B1 Antialiasing using hybrid supersampling-multisampling Physics 26 Expired
US7692659B1 Color-compression using automatic reduction of multi-sampled pixels Physics 26 Active
US8760460B1 Hardware-managed virtual buffers using a shared memory for load distribution Physics 25 Active
US8704836B1 Distributing primitives to multiple rasterizers Physics 24 Active
US8669999B2 Alpha-to-coverage value determination using virtual samples Physics 23 Active
US8341380B2 Efficient memory translator with variable size cache line coverage Physics 20 Active
US7286134B1 System and method for packing data in a tiled graphics memory Electricity 20 Expired
US8605102B1 Rasterization tile coalescer and reorder buffer Physics 20 Active
US6954204B2 Programmable graphics system and method using flexible, high-precision data formats Physics 20 Expired
US7053893B1 Position conflict detection and avoidance in a programmable graphics processor using tile coverage data Physics 16 Expired
US7659893B1 Method and apparatus to ensure consistency of depth values computed in different sections of a graphics processor Physics 16 Active
US7728841B1 Coherent shader output for multiple targets Physics 16 Active
US7053904B1 Position conflict detection and avoidance in a programmable graphics processor Physics 15 Expired
US8605104B1 Threshold-based lossy reduction color compression Physics 15 Active

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