Patents by Inventor Otis Lamont Frost, III

Otis Lamont Frost, III 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: 8126949
    Abstract: A reconfigurable filter node including an input data memory adapted to store a plurality of input data values, a filter coefficient memory adapted to store a plurality of filter coefficient values, and a plurality of computational units adapted to simultaneously compute filter data values. Filter data values are the outputs of a filter in response to input data values or a second plurality of filter coefficients to be used in subsequent filter data value computations. First and second input data registers load successive input data values input data memory or from adjacent computational units. Each computational unit comprises a pre-adder adapted to output either the sum two input data values stored in the computational unit or alternately to output a single input data value, and a multiply-and-accumulate unit adapted to multiply the output of the pre-adder by a filter coefficient and accumulate the result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: W. James Scheuermann, Otis Lamont Frost, III
  • Patent number: 7353243
    Abstract: A reconfigurable filter node including an input data memory adapted to store a plurality of input data values, a filter coefficient memory adapted to store a plurality of filter coefficient values, and a plurality of computational units adapted to simultaneously compute filter data values. Filter data values are the outputs of a filter in response to input data values or a second plurality of filter coefficients to be used in subsequent filter data value computations. First and second input data registers load successive input data values input data memory or from adjacent computational units. Each computational unit comprises a pre-adder adapted to output either the sum two input data values stored in the computational unit or alternately to output a single input data value, and a multiply-and-accumulate unit adapted to multiply the output of the pre-adder by a filter coefficient and accumulate the result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: W. James Scheuermann, Otis Lamont Frost, III