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Donna J. Ricks

Examiner (ID: 14242, Phone: (571)270-7532 , Office: P/2612 )

Most Active Art Unit
2612
Art Unit(s)
2628, 2612, 2679, 2618, 2677
Total Applications
584
Issued Applications
428
Pending Applications
55
Abandoned Applications
116

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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16/520711
Foveated rendering using variable framerates Jul 23, 2019 Issued
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16/520600
System and method for detecting when geometry shaders output a constant amount of data Jul 23, 2019 Issued
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16/511397
Image signal processor for generating a converted image, method of operating the image signal processor, and application processor including the image signal processor Jul 14, 2019 Issued
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16/442711
Video data processing system for storing frames of video data Jun 16, 2019 Issued
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16/428485
GPU assist using DSP pre-processor system and method May 30, 2019 Issued
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16/415864
Virtual machine graphics resource usage May 16, 2019 Issued
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16/414251
Efficient merging of atomic operations at computing devices May 15, 2019 Issued
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16/412407
Directional and X-ray view techniques for navigation using a mobile device May 13, 2019 Issued
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16/403935
Optimal texture memory allocation May 5, 2019 Issued
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16/398567
Reduction of a number of stages of a graph streaming processor Apr 29, 2019 Issued
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16/392967
Information processing device and information processing method for indicating a position outside a display region Apr 23, 2019 Issued
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16/390215
Variable resolution graphics processing Apr 21, 2019 Issued
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16/367635
Accessing a memory configured to store an image data cube Mar 27, 2019 Issued
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16/291001
Image drawing apparatus and display apparatus with increased memory efficiency Mar 3, 2019 Issued
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16/291792
Information processing apparatus, system, and method for displaying bio-information or kinetic information Mar 3, 2019 Issued
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16/291406
Eliminating redundant fibers in a federated large display system Mar 3, 2019 Issued
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16/281703
Graphics processing chip with machine-learning based shader Feb 20, 2019 Issued
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16/282003
BIN RESOLVE WITH CONCURRENT RENDERING OF A NEXT BIN Feb 20, 2019 Abandoned
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16/262186
Display device, and method of controlling display device Jan 29, 2019 Issued
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16/261949
Image processor that outputs on-screen-display information Jan 29, 2019 Issued
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