John W. Howson

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Kings Langley, GB

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

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Untransformed display lists in a tile based rendering system
- Patent number 12,217,358
- Issue date Feb 4, 2025
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation with tile ob...
- Patent number 12,211,136
- Issue date Jan 28, 2025
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Graphics processing systems with expansion transformation stage masks
- Patent number 12,211,118
- Issue date Jan 28, 2025
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Robert Brigg
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Tessellation of patches of surfaces in a tile based rendering system
- Patent number 12,190,449
- Issue date Jan 7, 2025
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John William Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Stereoscopic graphics processing
- Patent number 12,166,954
- Issue date Dec 10, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering com...
- Patent number 12,148,084
- Issue date Nov 19, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Controlling rendering operations by shader buffer identification
- Patent number 12,141,909
- Issue date Nov 12, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Task merging
- Patent number 12,131,403
- Issue date Oct 29, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Roger Hernando Buch
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Task execution in a SIMD processing unit with parallel groups of pr...
- Patent number 12,112,396
- Issue date Oct 8, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Dedicated ray memory for ray tracing in graphics systems
- Patent number 12,106,424
- Issue date Oct 1, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Computing systems and methods for processing graphics data using co...
- Patent number 12,100,062
- Issue date Sep 24, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Scalable parallel tessellation
- Patent number 12,067,681
- Issue date Aug 20, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Methods and control stream generators for generating a control stre...
- Patent number 12,020,362
- Issue date Jun 25, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Diego Jesus
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Allocation of resources to tasks
- Patent number 11,989,816
- Issue date May 21, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Panagiotis Velentzas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Tile-based graphics
- Patent number 11,954,759
- Issue date Apr 9, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Steven Fishwick
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Processing primitives which have unresolved fragments in a graphics...
- Patent number 11,928,776
- Issue date Mar 12, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Data structures, methods and tiling engines for hierarchically stor...
- Patent number 11,922,555
- Issue date Mar 5, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Diego Jesus
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Tile based computer graphics
- Patent number 11,922,534
- Issue date Mar 5, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Steven J. Fishwick
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Transformed geometry data cache for graphics processing systems
- Patent number 11,915,363
- Issue date Feb 27, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Robert Brigg
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Multi-rendering in graphics processing units using render progressi...
- Patent number 11,887,240
- Issue date Jan 30, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Tessellation of patches of surfaces in a tile based rendering system
- Patent number 11,861,792
- Issue date Jan 2, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John William Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Primitive block generator for graphics processing systems
- Patent number 11,836,849
- Issue date Dec 5, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Xile Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Graphics processing method and system for processing sub-primitives
- Patent number 11,823,324
- Issue date Nov 21, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Xile Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Topology preservation in a graphics pipeline by analyzing a geometr...
- Patent number 11,798,219
- Issue date Oct 24, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Dedicated ray memory for ray tracing in graphics systems
- Patent number 11,756,256
- Issue date Sep 12, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Task execution in a SIMD processing unit with parallel groups of pr...
- Patent number 11,734,788
- Issue date Aug 22, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Task merging
- Patent number 11,727,525
- Issue date Aug 15, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Roger Hernando Buch
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering com...
- Patent number 11,710,268
- Issue date Jul 25, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Using tiling depth information in hidden surface removal in a graph...
- Patent number 11,682,163
- Issue date Jun 20, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Richard Broadhurst
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Stereoscopic graphics processing
- Patent number 11,677,927
- Issue date Jun 13, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
TASK MERGING
- Publication number 20250054097
- Publication date Feb 13, 2025
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Roger Hernando Buch
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DEDICATED RAY MEMORY FOR RAY TRACING IN GRAPHICS SYSTEMS
- Publication number 20240428504
- Publication date Dec 26, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING GRAPHICS DATA USING CO...
- Publication number 20240403995
- Publication date Dec 5, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SCALABLE PARALLEL TESSELLATION
- Publication number 20240371101
- Publication date Nov 7, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TESSELLATION OF PATCHES OF SURFACES IN A TILE BASED RENDERING SYSTEM
- Publication number 20240290035
- Publication date Aug 29, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John William Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES TO TASKS
- Publication number 20240273804
- Publication date Aug 15, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Panagiotis Velentzas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TILE-BASED GRAPHICS
- Publication number 20240249377
- Publication date Jul 25, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Steven Fishwick
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PROCESSING PRIMITIVES WHICH HAVE UNRESOLVED FRAGMENTS IN A GRAPHICS...
- Publication number 20240221290
- Publication date Jul 4, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MULTI-RENDERING IN GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS USING RENDER PROGRESSI...
- Publication number 20240169642
- Publication date May 23, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PROCESSING FRAGMENTS WHICH HAVE A SHADER-DEPENDENT PROPERTY IN A GR...
- Publication number 20240119662
- Publication date Apr 11, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Panagiotis Velentzas
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PRIMITIVE BLOCK GENERATOR FOR GRAPHICS PROCESSING SYSTEMS
- Publication number 20240104833
- Publication date Mar 28, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Xile Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
GRAPHICS PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING SUB-PRIMITIVES
- Publication number 20240087216
- Publication date Mar 14, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Xile Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
REDUCED ACCELERATION STRUCTURES FOR RAY TRACING SYSTEMS
- Publication number 20240054715
- Publication date Feb 15, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TOPOLOGY PRESERVATION IN A GRAPHICS PIPELINE BY ANALYZING A GEOMETR...
- Publication number 20240046545
- Publication date Feb 8, 2024
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Dedicated Ray Memory for Ray Tracing in Graphics Systems
- Publication number 20230419588
- Publication date Dec 28, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
REDUCING REDUNDANT RENDERING IN A GRAPHICS SYSTEM
- Publication number 20230410427
- Publication date Dec 21, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
REDUCING REDUNDANT RENDERING IN A GRAPHICS SYSTEM
- Publication number 20230401778
- Publication date Dec 14, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
TASK EXECUTION IN A SIMD PROCESSING UNIT WITH PARALLEL GROUPS OF PR...
- Publication number 20230394615
- Publication date Dec 7, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Task Merging
- Publication number 20230385981
- Publication date Nov 30, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Roger Hernando Buch
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING RENDERING COM...
- Publication number 20230360306
- Publication date Nov 9, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
HIDDEN CULLING IN TILE-BASED COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGES
- Publication number 20230351678
- Publication date Nov 2, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Xile Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
USING TILING DEPTH INFORMATION IN HIDDEN SURFACE REMOVAL IN A GRAPH...
- Publication number 20230334769
- Publication date Oct 19, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Richard Broadhurst
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Scalable Parallel Tessellation
- Publication number 20230326140
- Publication date Oct 12, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
CONTROLLING RENDERING OPERATIONS BY SHADER BUFFER IDENTIFICATION
- Publication number 20230326118
- Publication date Oct 12, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Transformed Geometry Data Cache for Graphics Processing Systems
- Publication number 20230298262
- Publication date Sep 21, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Robert Brigg
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Stereoscopic Graphics Processing
- Publication number 20230269357
- Publication date Aug 24, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John W. Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Graphics Processing Systems with Expansion Transformation Stage Masks
- Publication number 20230260074
- Publication date Aug 17, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Robert Brigg
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND CONTROL STREAM GENERATORS FOR GENERATING A CONTROL STRE...
- Publication number 20230252711
- Publication date Aug 10, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Diego Jesus
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Tessellation of Patches of Surfaces in a Tile Based Rendering System
- Publication number 20230230323
- Publication date Jul 20, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- John William Howson
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Data Structures, Methods and Tiling Engines for Hierarchically Stor...
- Publication number 20230215095
- Publication date Jul 6, 2023
- Imagination Technologies Limited
- Diego Jesus
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

John W. Howson

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Untransformed display lists in a tile based rendering system

On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation with tile ob...

Graphics processing systems with expansion transformation stage masks

Tessellation of patches of surfaces in a tile based rendering system

Stereoscopic graphics processing

Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering com...

Controlling rendering operations by shader buffer identification

Task merging

Task execution in a SIMD processing unit with parallel groups of pr...

Dedicated ray memory for ray tracing in graphics systems

Computing systems and methods for processing graphics data using co...

Scalable parallel tessellation

Methods and control stream generators for generating a control stre...

Allocation of resources to tasks

Tile-based graphics

Processing primitives which have unresolved fragments in a graphics...

Data structures, methods and tiling engines for hierarchically stor...

Tile based computer graphics

Transformed geometry data cache for graphics processing systems

Multi-rendering in graphics processing units using render progressi...

Tessellation of patches of surfaces in a tile based rendering system

Primitive block generator for graphics processing systems

Graphics processing method and system for processing sub-primitives

Topology preservation in a graphics pipeline by analyzing a geometr...

Dedicated ray memory for ray tracing in graphics systems

Task execution in a SIMD processing unit with parallel groups of pr...

Task merging

Graphics processing units and methods for controlling rendering com...

Using tiling depth information in hidden surface removal in a graph...

Stereoscopic graphics processing

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

TASK MERGING

DEDICATED RAY MEMORY FOR RAY TRACING IN GRAPHICS SYSTEMS

COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING GRAPHICS DATA USING CO...

SCALABLE PARALLEL TESSELLATION

TESSELLATION OF PATCHES OF SURFACES IN A TILE BASED RENDERING SYSTEM

ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES TO TASKS

TILE-BASED GRAPHICS

PROCESSING PRIMITIVES WHICH HAVE UNRESOLVED FRAGMENTS IN A GRAPHICS...

MULTI-RENDERING IN GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS USING RENDER PROGRESSI...

PROCESSING FRAGMENTS WHICH HAVE A SHADER-DEPENDENT PROPERTY IN A GR...

PRIMITIVE BLOCK GENERATOR FOR GRAPHICS PROCESSING SYSTEMS

GRAPHICS PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING SUB-PRIMITIVES

REDUCED ACCELERATION STRUCTURES FOR RAY TRACING SYSTEMS

TOPOLOGY PRESERVATION IN A GRAPHICS PIPELINE BY ANALYZING A GEOMETR...

Dedicated Ray Memory for Ray Tracing in Graphics Systems

REDUCING REDUNDANT RENDERING IN A GRAPHICS SYSTEM

REDUCING REDUNDANT RENDERING IN A GRAPHICS SYSTEM

TASK EXECUTION IN A SIMD PROCESSING UNIT WITH PARALLEL GROUPS OF PR...

Task Merging

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING RENDERING COM...

HIDDEN CULLING IN TILE-BASED COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGES

USING TILING DEPTH INFORMATION IN HIDDEN SURFACE REMOVAL IN A GRAPH...

Scalable Parallel Tessellation

CONTROLLING RENDERING OPERATIONS BY SHADER BUFFER IDENTIFICATION

Transformed Geometry Data Cache for Graphics Processing Systems

Stereoscopic Graphics Processing

Graphics Processing Systems with Expansion Transformation Stage Masks

METHODS AND CONTROL STREAM GENERATORS FOR GENERATING A CONTROL STRE...

Tessellation of Patches of Surfaces in a Tile Based Rendering System

Data Structures, Methods and Tiling Engines for Hierarchically Stor...