Nicholas D Carter

US Patent:

7817154, Oct 19, 2010

Filed:

Dec 12, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/609562

Inventors:

Rudy Jason Sams - San Jose CA, US
Nicholas B. Carter - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

NVIDIA Corporation - Santa Clara CA

International Classification:

G06F 15/00
G06T 1/00
G09G 5/36

US Classification:

345501, 345557

Abstract:

A graphics system has output states corresponding to a transformation of a user state of a software application to a graphics hardware state. The graphics system utilizes a technique, such as a conventional output state cache, to recognize that the overall state vector has taken on a previously-seen value. Additionally, a transition cache maps transitions in changing input state to changing output state. The transition cache is used to provide an alternative technique to determine output states based on transitions of input state.

US Patent:

20120155885, Jun 21, 2012

Filed:

Dec 21, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/974524

Inventors:

Eric C. Hannah - Pebble Beach CA, US
John L. Gustafson - Pleasanton CA, US
Shivani A. Sud - Santa Clara CA, US
Nicholas P. Carter - Santa Clara CA, US
Joshua B. Fryman - Corvallis OR, US
Roy Want - Los Altos CA, US

International Classification:

H04B 10/10

US Classification:

398128

Abstract:

In some embodiments a light transceiver is associated with a computing rack and is adapted to transmit and/or receive one or more light beams via air to and/or from a second light transceiver associated with a second computing rack to communicate information between the computing rack and the second computing rack. Other embodiments are described and claimed.