Patents by Inventor Mark Fowler

Mark Fowler 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).

  • Configurable buffer for multipass applications
    Patent number: 6700583
    Abstract: A configurable buffer has two storage areas. Depending upon a state of a buffer control signal, the two storage areas are configured to buffer a single stream of data together or to buffer two streams of data separately. In an exemplary video graphics processing application, one stream of data includes pass-through values of fragments being rendered (e.g. color, location, and/or depth values) and the other stream of data includes corresponding displaced (or otherwise perturbed) texture coordinate pairs. Such a buffer may be used to reduce the amount of buffer storage needed to support both single-pass and multipass operations in a pixel pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: ATI Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Fowler, Michael T. Wright
  • Configurable buffer for multipass applications
    Publication number: 20020180741
    Abstract: A configurable buffer has two storage areas. Depending upon a state of a buffer control signal, the two storage areas are configured to buffer a single stream of data together or to buffer two streams of data separately. In an exemplary video graphics processing application, one stream of data includes pass-through values of fragments being rendered (e.g. color, location, and/or depth values) and the other stream of data includes corresponding displaced (or otherwise perturbed) texture coordinate pairs. Such a buffer may be used to reduce the amount of buffer storage needed to support both single-pass and multipass operations in a pixel pipeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2001
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Mark Fowler, Michael T. Wright