Patents by Inventor Adam Craig Malamy

Adam Craig Malamy 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).

  • Modular scaleable processing engine for accelerating variable length coding
    Patent number: 8013765
    Abstract: A mechanism for efficient CAVLC coding in a hardware implementation of a H.264 coder is provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, multiple modular CAVLC engines that each process one sub-macroblock of data are used. An assembler engine that combines the CAVLC-encoded sub-macroblock data from each modular CAVLC engine to form a output bit-stream is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Cavium, Inc.
    Inventor: Adam Craig Malamy
  • Controlling a real-time rendering engine using a list-based control mechanism
    Patent number: 5798762
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a real-time rendering engine includes a control program for defining in regions of system memory a block header and a list of flow-control instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Assignee: Cagent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Sfarti, Nicholas Robert Baker, Robert William Laker, Adam Craig Malamy