Sam Ng

6614444, Sep 2, 2003

Aug 20, 1999

09/372137

Sushma S. Trivedi - Sunnyvale CA
Sam Ng - Fremont CA
Lindy Fung - Sunnyvale CA
Richard E. Hessel - Pleasanton CA
Jack Benkual - Cupertino CA

Apple Computer, Inc. - Cupertino CA

G09G 500

345581, 345422, 345592, 345537, 345545

Apparatus and methods for rendering 3D graphics images. The apparatus include a port for receiving commands from a graphics application, an output for sending a rendered image to a display and a fragment-operations pipeline, coupled to the port and to the output, the pipeline including a stage for performing a fragment operation on a fragment on a per-pixel basis, as well as a stage for performing a fragment operation on the fragment on a per-sample basis. The stage for performing on a per-pixel basis is one of the following: a scissor-test stage, a stipple-test stage, an alpha-test stage or a colorest stage, and the stage for performing on a per-sample basis is one of the following: a Z-test stage, a blending stage or a dithering stage. The apparatus programmatically selects whether to perform a stencil test on a per-pixel or a per-sample basis and performs the stencil test on the selected basis. The apparatus also programmatically selects pixel samples for per-sample operations, where the sample selections differ with different instances of the same per-sample operation.

62688758, Jul 31, 2001

Aug 4, 2000

9/632293

Jerome F. Duluk - Palo Alto CA
Richard E. Hessel - Pleasanton CA
Vaughn T. Arnold - Scotts Valley CA
Jack Benkual - Cupertino CA
Joseph P. Bratt - San Jose CA
George Cuan - Sunnyvale CA
Stephen L. Dodgen - Boulder Creek CA
Emerson S. Fang - Fremont CA
Zhaoyu Gong - Cupertino CA
Thomas Y. Ho - Fremont CA
Hengwei Hsu - Fremont CA
Sidong Li - San Jose CA
Sam Ng - Fremont CA
Matthew N. Papakipos - Menlo Park CA
Jason R. Redgrave - Mountain View CA
Sushma S. Trivedi - Sunnyvale CA
Nathan D. Tuck - San Diego CA

Apple Computer, Inc. - Cupertino CA

G06T 120

345506

Three-dimensional computer graphics systems and methods and more particularly to structure and method for a three-dimensional graphics processor and having other enhanced graphics processing features. In one embodiment the graphics processor is a Deferred Shading Graphics Processor (DSGP) comprising an AGP interface, a command fetch & decode (2000), a geometry unit (3000), a mode extraction (4000) and polygon memory (5000), a sort unit (6000) and sort memory (7000), a setup unit (8000), a cull unit (9000), a mode injection (10000), a fragment unit (11000), a texture (12000) and texture memory (13000) a phong shading (14000), a pixel unit (15000), a backend unit (1600) coupled to a frame buffer (17000). Other embodiments need not include all of these functional units, and the structures and methods of these units are applicable to other computational processes and systems as well as deferred and non-deferred shading graphical processors.

62295535, May 8, 2001

Aug 20, 1999

9/378299

Jerome F. Duluk - Palo Alto CA
Richard E. Hessel - Pleasanton CA
Vaughn T. Arnold - Scotts Valley CA
Jack Benkual - Cupertino CA
Joseph P. Bratt - San Jose CA
George Cuan - Sunnyvale CA
Stephen L. Dodgen - Boulder Creek CA
Emerson S. Fang - Fremont CA
Zhaoyu Gong - Cupertino CA
Thomas Y. Ho - Fremont CA
Hengwei Hsu - Fremont CA
Sidong Li - San Jose CA
Sam Ng - Fremont CA
Matthew N. Papakipos - Menlo Park CA
Jason R. Redgrave - Mountain View CA
Sushma S. Trivedi - Sunnyvale CA
Nathan D. Tuck - San Diego CA

Apple Computer, Inc. - Cupertino CA

G06T 120

345506

Three-dimensional computer graphics systems and methods and more particularly to structure and method for a three-dimensional graphics processor and having other enhanced graphics processing features. In one embodiment the graphics processor is Deferred Shading Graphics Processor (DSGP) comprising an AGP interface, a command fetch decode (2000), a geometry unit (3000), a mode extraction (4000) and polygon memory (5000), a sort unit (6000) and sort memory (7000), a setup unit (8000), a cull unit (9000), a mode injection (10000), a fragment unit (11000), a texture (12000) and texture memory (13000) a phong shading (14000), a pixel unit (15000), a backend unit (1600) coupled to a frame buffer (17000). Other embodiments need not include all of these functional units, and the structures and methods of these units are applicable to other computational processes and systems as well as deferred and non-deferred shading graphical processors.

20180095969, Apr 5, 2018

Oct 2, 2017

15/723055

- San Diego CA, US
Sam Ng - Menlo Park CA, US
Joseph R. Delaney - Hayward CA, US

G06F 17/30
G06F 19/12
G06F 17/15
G06F 17/16
G06F 19/22

The present invention relates to methods, systems and apparatus for capturing, integrating, organizing, navigating and querying large-scale data from high-throughput biological and chemical assay platforms. It provides a highly efficient meta-analysis infrastructure for performing research queries across a large number of studies and experiments from different biological and chemical assays, data types and organisms, as well as systems to build and add to such an infrastructure. According to various embodiments, methods, systems and interfaces for identifying genes that are potentially associated with a biological, chemical or medical concept of interest.