Patents by Inventor Lode Nachtergaele

Lode Nachtergaele has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6640015
    Abstract: A system and method for multi-level iterative filtering of a data structure, e.g., an image, wherein elements of the data structure form the zero layer in the zero level and the data layer in each subsequent level is given by the results of one iteration. First, the method of the present system includes subdividing each level into a plurality of regions, there being data dependency between the data in one data layer in one level and the data layers in any other level of a region. Second, the method includes filtering each level by lapped-region processing. Lastly., the method includes scheduling the data processing of each level to provide substantially regional synchronization of the filtering at each level. In one embodiment, the sequence for traversing the regions is selected so that outputs from processing the regions are scheduled to occur at substantially equal time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum (IMEC VZW)
    Inventors: Gauthier Lafruit, Lode Nachtergaele
  • Patent number: 6064819
    Abstract: Selected code is modeled in a polyhedral dependency graph (PDG). A placement optimizer maps each element of the PDG to an optimally placed PDG. An ordering optimizer maps the placed PDG to an optimally ordered PDG. The PDG, place PDG, and ordered PDG are combined to produce a transformation script. The transformation script is applied to the selected specification description to produce optimized selected code. Optimized selected code is combined with original code to generate a control-flow optimized code. In addition, memory directives are derived from the ordered PDG model. The memory directives and optimized code are used to generate target code for simulation or software compilation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Imec
    Inventors: Frank Franssen, Michael van Swaaij, Lode Nachtergaele, Hans Samsom, Francky Catthoor, Hugo De Man