Patents by Inventor Marcus Franklin DUTTON

Marcus Franklin DUTTON 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: 9142002
    Abstract: A graphic processor device is implemented on a field programmable gate array (“FPGA”) circuitry comprises a pipeline formatter that sets graphic commands and vertex data into structures, and a rasterizer that interpolates between vertices in the vertex data to generate lines and filling between at least one edge to generate a structure, wherein output of the rasterizer is a stream of fragments that become pixels. The graphic processor device further includes a frame buffer that receives a stream of fragments and blends a plurality of fragments before the plurality of fragments are stored in a frame buffer, and an output processor configured to retrieve a plurality of fragments from the frame buffer and transmits a plurality of pixels according to a predefined resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: L-3 COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Marcus Franklin Dutton
  • Patent number: 9092873
    Abstract: A rasterizer in a graphic processor device implemented on a field programmable gate array circuitry (FPGA). The rasterizer comprises a preprocessor that creates data packets to generate at least one line, a main module that generates a stream of data fragments that become pixels, and a postprocessor that combines the data fragments and pipeline commands into one output to a fragment processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: L-3 COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Marcus Franklin Dutton
  • Publication number: 20120200581
    Abstract: A graphic processor device is implemented on a field programmable gate array (“FPGA”) circuitry comprises a pipeline formatter that sets graphic commands and vertex data into structures, and a rasterizer that interpolates between vertices in the vertex data to generate lines and filling between at least one edge to generate a structure, wherein output of the rasterizer is a stream of fragments that become pixels. The graphic processor device further includes a frame buffer that receives a stream of fragments and blends a plurality of fragments before the plurality of fragments are stored in a frame buffer, and an output processor configured to retrieve a plurality of fragments from the frame buffer and transmits a plurality of pixels according to a predefined resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Inventor: Marcus Franklin DUTTON
  • Publication number: 20120200582
    Abstract: A rasterizer in a graphic processor device implemented on a field programmable gate array circuitry (FPGA). The rasterizer comprises a preprocessor that creates data packets to generate at least one line, a main module that generates a stream of data fragments that become pixels, and a postprocessor that combines the data fragments and pipeline commands into one output to a fragment processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Inventor: Marcus Franklin DUTTON