Patents by Inventor Thomas Joseph Shepherd

Thomas Joseph Shepherd 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: 11663149
    Abstract: Embodiments include herein are directed towards a dynamic random access memory system. Embodiments may include a command queue that is configured to hold all commands that are currently selectable for bank operation and execution. Embodiments may further include bank logic operatively connected with the command queue. The bank logic may include a bank management module and a plurality of bank slices, wherein each of the plurality of bank slices is an independent, re-assignable bank tracking module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John Michael MacLaren, Thomas Joseph Shepherd, Davika Raghu
  • Patent number: 7460135
    Abstract: In a method and system for controlling rotation of a color image stored as sub-sampled image data in a memory, a controller includes a finite state machine (FSM) operable to fetch the sub-sampled image data and provide the sub-sampled data as a plurality of pixels to form the color image having a predefined angle of rotation. The FSM provides a predefined address of sub-sampled image data describing the color image stored in the memory to an addressing unit. The addressing unit is operable to read twice the sub-sampled image data located at the predefined address. A memory device is operable to push each read instance of the sub-sampled image data. A pipeline controlled by the FSM is operable to pull and selectively read the sub-sampled image data from the memory device for generating the plurality of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Joseph Shepherd, Donald Richard Tillery, Jr., Nishanth Rajan