Patents by Inventor Steven Paul Tucker

Steven Paul Tucker 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).

  • 3D bypass for download of textures
    Patent number: 5745118
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing texture mapping data in a computer graphics system, the system including a host computer, primitive rendering hardware and a textured primitive data path extending between the host computer and the primitive rendering hardware. The host computer passes textured primitives to be rendered by the system using corresponding texture mapping data to the primitive rendering hardware over the textured primitive data path. The host computer has a main memory that stores texture mapping data corresponding to the textured primitives to be rendered. The primitive rendering hardware includes a local texture memory that locally stores the texture mapping data corresponding to at least one of the textured primitives to be rendered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Company
    Inventors: Byron A. Alcorn, Darel N. Emmot, Steven Paul Tucker