David Kirk McAllister

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Holladay, UT, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

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Bounding volume hierarchy leaf node compression
- Patent number 12,205,223
- Issue date Jan 21, 2025
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- David Kirk McAllister
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Accelerated bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) traversal for shadow rays
- Patent number 12,159,343
- Issue date Dec 3, 2024
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Piyush Gupta
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Leaf node compression with compressibility prediction
- Patent number 12,100,186
- Issue date Sep 24, 2024
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Adimulam Ramesh Babu
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Compressed traversal stack for GPU ray tracing
- Patent number 12,056,819
- Issue date Aug 6, 2024
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- David Kirk McAllister
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Ray tracing processor
- Patent number 12,045,928
- Issue date Jul 23, 2024
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- David Kirk McAllister
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Generation of tight world space bounding regions
- Patent number 11,861,785
- Issue date Jan 2, 2024
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- David Kirk McAllister
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Compressed THIT stack for hardware-accelerated GPU ray tracing
- Patent number 11,763,523
- Issue date Sep 19, 2023
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- David Kirk McAllister
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Storage of levels for bottom level bounding volume hierarchy
- Patent number 11,593,990
- Issue date Feb 28, 2023
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Adimulam Ramesh Babu
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Variable-width differential memory compression
- Patent number 9,607,407
- Issue date Mar 28, 2017
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Jonathan Dunaisky
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Alternate reduction ratios and threshold mechanisms for framebuffer...
- Patent number 9,530,189
- Issue date Dec 27, 2016
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Jonathan Dunaisky
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Selecting and representing multiple compression methods
- Patent number 9,406,149
- Issue date Aug 2, 2016
- NVIDIA Corporation
- David Kirk McAllister
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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System, method, and computer program product for graphics processin...
- Patent number 9,235,512
- Issue date Jan 12, 2016
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Andreas Dietrich
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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System, method, and computer program product for performing shadowi...
- Patent number 8,872,824
- Issue date Oct 28, 2014
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Michael Robert Phillips
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Compression status caching
- Patent number 8,862,823
- Issue date Oct 14, 2014
- NVIDIA Corporation
- David B. Glasco
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Lossless frame buffer color compression
- Patent number 8,670,613
- Issue date Mar 11, 2014
- NVIDIA Corporation
- David K. McAllister
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Threshold-based lossy reduction color compression
- Patent number 8,605,104
- Issue date Dec 10, 2013
- NVIDIA Corporation
- David Kirk McAllister
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Partial coverage layers for color compression
- Patent number 8,488,890
- Issue date Jul 16, 2013
- NVIDIA Corporation
- David Kirk McAllister
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and system for rendering connecting antialiased line segments
- Patent number 8,390,645
- Issue date Mar 5, 2013
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Franklin C. Crow
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Zero-bandwidth clears
- Patent number 8,330,766
- Issue date Dec 11, 2012
- NVIDIA Corporation
- David Kirk McAllister
- G09 - EDUCATION CRYPTOGRAPHY DISPLAY ADVERTISING SEALS
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Index-based zero-bandwidth clears
- Patent number 8,319,783
- Issue date Nov 27, 2012
- NVIDIA Corporation
- David Kirk McAllister
- G09 - EDUCATION CRYPTOGRAPHY DISPLAY ADVERTISING SEALS
Information Patent Grant
Compression of 16 bit data using predictor values
- Patent number 8,065,354
- Issue date Nov 22, 2011
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Walter E. Donovan
- H03 - BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
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System and method for packing data in different formats in a tiled...
- Patent number 8,059,131
- Issue date Nov 15, 2011
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Donald A. Bittel
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Decompression of 16 bit data using predictor values
- Patent number 8,023,752
- Issue date Sep 20, 2011
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Walter E. Donovan
- H03 - BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
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Apparatus, method, and system for coalesced Z data and color data f...
- Patent number 7,847,802
- Issue date Dec 7, 2010
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Donald A. Bittel
- G09 - EDUCATION CRYPTOGRAPHY DISPLAY ADVERTISING SEALS
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Optimized alpha blend for anti-aliased render
- Patent number 7,629,982
- Issue date Dec 8, 2009
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gary C. King
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Decompression of compressed 16 bit data
- Patent number 7,599,975
- Issue date Oct 6, 2009
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Walter E. Donovan
- H03 - BASIC ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
Information Patent Grant
Optimized alpha blend for anti-aliased render
- Patent number 7,479,965
- Issue date Jan 20, 2009
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Gary C. King
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Apparatus, method, and system for coalesced Z data and color data f...
- Patent number 7,474,313
- Issue date Jan 6, 2009
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Donald A. Bittel
- G09 - EDUCATION CRYPTOGRAPHY DISPLAY ADVERTISING SEALS
Information Patent Grant
System and method for packing data in different formats in a tiled...
- Patent number 7,420,568
- Issue date Sep 2, 2008
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Donald A. Bittel
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
GENERATION OF TIGHT WORLD SPACE BOUNDING REGIONS
- Publication number 20240062453
- Publication date Feb 22, 2024
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- David Kirk MCALLISTER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ACCELERATED BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY (BVH) TRAVERSAL FOR SHADOW RAYS
- Publication number 20230410407
- Publication date Dec 21, 2023
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Piyush GUPTA
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
RAY TRACING PROCESSOR
- Publication number 20230252717
- Publication date Aug 10, 2023
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- David Kirk MCALLISTER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
COMPRESSED TRAVERSAL STACK FOR GPU RAY TRACING
- Publication number 20230252726
- Publication date Aug 10, 2023
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- David Kirk MCALLISTER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY LEAF NODE COMPRESSION
- Publication number 20230252725
- Publication date Aug 10, 2023
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- David Kirk MCALLISTER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
GENERATION OF TIGHT WORLD SPACE BOUNDING REGIONS
- Publication number 20230252716
- Publication date Aug 10, 2023
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- David Kirk MCALLISTER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
COMPRESSED THIT STACK FOR HARDWARE-ACCELERATED GPU RAY TRACING
- Publication number 20230252727
- Publication date Aug 10, 2023
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- David Kirk MCALLISTER
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
LEAF NODE COMPRESSION WITH COMPRESSIBILITY PREDICTION
- Publication number 20230252685
- Publication date Aug 10, 2023
- QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Adimulam RAMESH BABU
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GRAPHICS PROCESSIN...
- Publication number 20140204098
- Publication date Jul 24, 2014
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Andreas Dietrich
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
VARIABLE-WIDTH DIFFERENTIAL MEMORY COMPRESSION
- Publication number 20140184612
- Publication date Jul 3, 2014
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Jonathan Dunaisky
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ALTERNATE REDUCTION RATIOS AND THRESHOLD MECHANISMS FOR FRAMEBUFFER...
- Publication number 20130249897
- Publication date Sep 26, 2013
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Jonathan Dunaisky
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONSTRUCTING AN AC...
- Publication number 20130033507
- Publication date Feb 7, 2013
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Kirill Vladimirovich Garanzha
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
LOSSLESS FRAME BUFFER COLOR COMPRESSION
- Publication number 20120050303
- Publication date Mar 1, 2012
- David K. McAllister
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
SELECTING AND REPRESENTING MULTIPLE COMPRESSION METHODS
- Publication number 20110243469
- Publication date Oct 6, 2011
- David Kirk McAllister
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

David Kirk McAllister

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Bounding volume hierarchy leaf node compression

Accelerated bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) traversal for shadow rays

Leaf node compression with compressibility prediction

Compressed traversal stack for GPU ray tracing

Ray tracing processor

Generation of tight world space bounding regions

Compressed THIT stack for hardware-accelerated GPU ray tracing

Storage of levels for bottom level bounding volume hierarchy

Variable-width differential memory compression

Alternate reduction ratios and threshold mechanisms for framebuffer...

Selecting and representing multiple compression methods

System, method, and computer program product for graphics processin...

System, method, and computer program product for performing shadowi...

Compression status caching

Lossless frame buffer color compression

Threshold-based lossy reduction color compression

Partial coverage layers for color compression

Method and system for rendering connecting antialiased line segments

Zero-bandwidth clears

Index-based zero-bandwidth clears

Compression of 16 bit data using predictor values

System and method for packing data in different formats in a tiled...

Decompression of 16 bit data using predictor values

Apparatus, method, and system for coalesced Z data and color data f...

Optimized alpha blend for anti-aliased render

Decompression of compressed 16 bit data

Optimized alpha blend for anti-aliased render

Apparatus, method, and system for coalesced Z data and color data f...

System and method for packing data in different formats in a tiled...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

GENERATION OF TIGHT WORLD SPACE BOUNDING REGIONS

ACCELERATED BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY (BVH) TRAVERSAL FOR SHADOW RAYS

RAY TRACING PROCESSOR

COMPRESSED TRAVERSAL STACK FOR GPU RAY TRACING

BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY LEAF NODE COMPRESSION

GENERATION OF TIGHT WORLD SPACE BOUNDING REGIONS

COMPRESSED THIT STACK FOR HARDWARE-ACCELERATED GPU RAY TRACING

LEAF NODE COMPRESSION WITH COMPRESSIBILITY PREDICTION

SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GRAPHICS PROCESSIN...

VARIABLE-WIDTH DIFFERENTIAL MEMORY COMPRESSION

ALTERNATE REDUCTION RATIOS AND THRESHOLD MECHANISMS FOR FRAMEBUFFER...

SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONSTRUCTING AN AC...

LOSSLESS FRAME BUFFER COLOR COMPRESSION

SELECTING AND REPRESENTING MULTIPLE COMPRESSION METHODS