Patents by Inventor Tom Piazza

Tom Piazza 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).

  • Anisotropic filtering technique
    Patent number: 6816167
    Abstract: An anisotropic filtering technique includes defining pixel elements in two dimensions and defining at least one object having three dimensional surfaces in a three-dimensional model space and storing texel elements in two dimensions defining a texture map bearing a relationship to the three dimensional surfaces of the at least one object. Each pixel element to be texture mapped is divided into a group of sub-pixel elements and the sub-pixel elements are separately texture mapped. The resultant textures of the sub-pixel elements are averaged to obtain a texture for their respective pixel element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Brian D. Rauchfuss, Val Cook, Tom Piazza
  • Method and apparatus for implementing smart allocation policies for a small frame buffer cache serving 3D and 2D streams
    Patent number: 6633299
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes monitoring a data stream. The method also includes partitioning a cache into two sub-caches based on monitoring the data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Krishnan Sreenivas, Aditya Sreenivas, Tom Piazza