Patents by Inventor Thomas Frommann

Thomas Frommann 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).

  • Publication number: 20080112480
    Abstract: A method for analog transmission of a video signal from a video source to a video sink is provided. The video signal contains a sequence of frames with a first image resolution and a first image frequency at the video source. The sequence of frames is converted to a sequence of image segments having a second image resolution that is lower than the first image resolution, and an image frequency that is higher than the first image frequency. The sequence of image segments is transmitted from the video source to the video sink, and a sequence of frames having the first image resolution is reconstructed at the video sink, the first image resolution is higher than the image resolution of a frame according to a video standard, and the second image resolution is equal to the image resolution of a frame or field according to the said video standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Thomas Frommann
  • Patent number: 6587113
    Abstract: A graphics processing unit in which the caching algorithm changes at the end of a line (or alternatively when the data from the beginning of the current line comes up for discard). This avoids the problem of continuous misses at the start of a new line, which can occur when the texture cache is not big enough to hold a full line's worth of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: 3Dlabs Inc., Ltd.
    Inventors: David Robert Baldwin, Thomas Frommann, Philip R. Laws