COMPANIES - NVIDIA

Patent Number    Patent Title
6,437,780 Method for determining tiles in a computer display that are covered by a graphics primitive
6,421,059 Apparatus and method for rendering characters into a memory
6,417,851 Method and apparatus for lighting module in a graphics processor
6,380,935 Circuit and method for processing render commands in a tile-based graphics system
6,352,479 Interactive gaming server and online community forum
6,344,852 Optimized system and method for binning of graphics data
6,342,888 Graphics processor with an integrated fog and blending operation
6,333,744 Graphics pipeline including combiner stages
6,323,860 Circuit and method for deferring the binding of render states to primitives in a graphics system
6,300,953 Apparatus and method for grouping texture cache requests
6,297,833 Bump mapping in a computer graphics pipeline
6,292,854 Method for providing high quality audio in a computer system
6,282,587 Method for accelerating the rendering of images
6,275,243 Method for accelerating the transfer of graphical images
6,239,808 Method for determining texture values of graphical images
6,226,012 Method for accelerating the rendering of graphical images
6,198,488 Transform, lighting and rasterization system embodied on a single semiconductor platform
6,191,794 Method and apparatus for scaling texture maps for graphical images
6,181,352 Graphics pipeline selectively providing multiple pixels or multiple textures
6,092,124 Method for accelerating the rendering of images
6,061,066 Method for creating perspective correct graphical images
6,023,738 Method for accelerating the transfer of graphical images
5,968,148 High quality audio generation by storing wave tables in system memory and having a DMA controller on the sound board for transferring the wave tables
5,805,175 Method for providing a plurality of color formats from a single frame buffer
5,793,379 Method and apparatus for scaling images having a plurality of scan lines of pixel data
5,768,628 Method for providing high quality audio by storing wave tables in system memory and having a DMA controller on the sound card for transferring the wave tables
5,734,369 Method for dithering images in a digital display system