Patents by Inventor Douglas P. Moore

Douglas P. Moore 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).

  • Method and apparatus for displaying primitives processed by a parallel processor system in a sequential order
    Patent number: 5325485
    Abstract: A method and system for processing a graphics data stream in a computer graphics system having a parallel processing system. The graphics data stream includes a plurality of elements. The method and system of the present invention involve associating tags with elements in a graphics data stream, wherein each tag indicates a display order for the element associated with the tag. The elements are processed within a parallel processing system to produce processed elements, wherein each of the processed elements maintains an association with a tag. The processed elements are rasterized in a selected sequence to determine new pixel data sets, wherein rasterization of each processed element results in a new pixel data set for each of a plurality of pixels. Each new pixel data set includes order data derived from a tag associated with each of the processed elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Roland M. Hochmuth, Douglas P. Moore, David C. Tannenbaum