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S3 GRAPHICS CO LTD

Overview
  • Total Patents
    76
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S3 GRAPHICS CO LTD has a total of 76 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 1996. It filed its patents most often in United States, EPO (European Patent Office) and China. Its main competitors in its focus markets computer technology, audio-visual technology and basic communication technologies are FRAUNHOFER CRCG INC, JEFFREY ERIC and VIRTUAL IRIS STUDIOS INC.

Patent filings in countries

World map showing S3 GRAPHICS CO LTDs patent filings in countries
# Country Total Patents
#1 United States 56
#2 EPO (European Patent Office) 17
#3 China 1
#4 Germany 1
#5 Taiwan 1

Patent filings per year

Chart showing S3 GRAPHICS CO LTDs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Hong Zhou 14
#2 Iourcha Konstantine I 13
#3 Nayak Krishna S 8
#4 Kuo Dong-Ying 6
#5 Fu Chih-Hong 5
#6 Swanson Roger 5
#7 Iourcha Konstantine 5
#8 Hong Mike 4
#9 Hung Daniel 4
#10 Brothers John W 4

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
TW200928956A Method and system for supporting multiple display devices
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CN1504854A Method and system for reading data from a memory
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US7146486B1 SIMD processor with scalar arithmetic logic units
US6989837B2 System and method for processing memory with YCbCr 4:2:0 planar video data format
US7154487B2 Power saving palette look-up table for graphics controller
US6775417B2 Fixed-rate block-based image compression with inferred pixel values
US7471298B1 Fetching pixel data with reduced memory bandwidth requirement
US6707460B1 Fast and cheap correct resolution conversion for digital numbers
US7119809B1 Parallel architecture for graphics primitive decomposition
US6766281B1 Matched texture filter design for rendering multi-rate data samples
US6828983B1 Selective super-sampling/adaptive anti-aliasing of complex 3D data
US6972760B2 Area and span based Z-buffer
US6611265B1 Multi-stage fixed cycle pipe-lined lighting equation evaluator
US6791544B1 Shadow rendering system and method
US6590579B1 System for low miss rate replacement of texture cache lines
US6614442B1 Macroblock tiling format for motion compensation
US6625665B1 Command interpretation system and method