Patents by Inventor Darrell C. Stam

Darrell C. Stam 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).

  • Optimizing decoders on a hardware platform that supports video acceleration
    Patent number: 7801224
    Abstract: A method for optimizing the performance of a media acceleration engine which includes providing input data to a replica of a media acceleration engine wherein the input data including a complete set of media streams, processing the input data via the replica of the media acceleration engine to provide replica output data, providing a subset of the complete set of media streams to a design of the media acceleration engine, simulating the operation of the design of the media acceleration engine using the subset of the complete set of media streams to provide design output data, comparing the replica output data with respective design output data, and comparing the performance of the media acceleration engine when replica output data matches corresponding design output data, is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Harish Vasudeva, Darrell C. Stam, Hans W. Graves