Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor having advanced features

JF Duluk Jr, RE Hessel, VT Arnold, J Benkual… - US Patent …, 2007 - Google Patents
2005-09-06 Assigned to RAYCER, INC. reassignment RAYCER, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF
ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: DODGEN …

Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor having advanced features

JF Duluk Jr, RE Hessel, VT Arnold, J Benkual… - US Patent …, 2010 - Google Patents
2007-05-15 Assigned to RAYCER, INC. reassignment RAYCER, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF
ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: DODGEN …

Graphics processor with deferred shading

JF Duluk Jr, RE Hessel, VT Arnold, J Benkual… - US Patent …, 2003 - Google Patents
1999-12-13 Assigned to RAYCER, INC. reassignment RAYCER, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF
ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: DODGEN …

Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor having advanced features

JF Duluk Jr, RE Hessel, VT Arnold, J Benkual… - US Patent …, 2004 - Google Patents
A deferred shading graphics pipeline processor and method are provided encompassing
numerous substructures. Embodiments of the processor and method may include one or …

Method and apparatus for interleaved processing of direct and indirect texture coordinates in a graphics system

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Recirculating shade tree blender for a graphics system

RA Drebin, TJ Van Hook, PY Law, MM Leather… - US Patent …, 2006 - Google Patents
A hardware-accelerated recirculating programmable texture blender/shader arrangement
circulates computed color and alpha data over multiple texture blending/shading cycles …

Matrix multiplication in a vector processing system

A Sazegari - US Patent 7,337,205, 2008 - Google Patents
To perform multiplication of matrices in a vector processing system, partial products are
obtained by dot multiplication of vector registers containing multiple copies of elements of a …

Method and apparatus for dynamically reconfiguring the order of hidden surface processing based on rendering mode

MM Leather, F Fouladi - US Patent 6,636,214, 2003 - Google Patents
(54) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR 4,653,012 A 3/1987 Duffy et al. DYNAMICALLY
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Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor

JF Duluk Jr, RE Hessel, VT Arnold, J Benkual… - US Patent …, 2001 - Google Patents
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Controller interface for a graphics system

D Shimizu, K Shiota, M Oira, K Koshima - US Patent 6,811,489, 2004 - Google Patents
A video game system includes a game program executing system executing a game
program and one or more controllers supplying user inputs to the game program executing …