James J Battle

Author:

James Battle

ISBN #:

0875620671

Author:

James Battle

ISBN #:

0875620744

Author:

James Battle

ISBN #:

0875620760

Author:

James Battle

ISBN #:

0875620949

US Patent:

7224364, May 29, 2007

Filed:

Feb 3, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/244270

Inventors:

Lordson L. Yue - Foster City CA, US
James T. Battle - San Jose CA, US

Assignee:

ATI International SRL - Christchurch

International Classification:

G06T 11/00
G06T 11/20

US Classification:

345468, 345441

Abstract:

A frame buffer is divided into tiles of, for example, 32 by 32 pixels. Triangles (and portions thereof) that are within a given tile are rasterized one triangle at a time into the tile location. This process repeats for each tile in the image frame. A sorting circuit generates control bits representing a vertical order of the vertices of a current triangle. A series of multiplexers vertically sorts the vertices bases on these control bits. A region calculation circuit generates region bits representing a location each of the vertices with respect to the current tile. A trivial discard of the triangle data occurs if the region bits indicate that the entire triangle lies outside of the tile. Subsequently, an initial rasterization starting point is estimated based on the region bits to lower the time needed for the rasterizer to find the first pixel of the current triangle to be assigned values.

US Patent:

20110145913, Jun 16, 2011

Filed:

Dec 15, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/638699

Inventors:

James Battle - Bedford MA, US
Krishnamohan Dantam - Chelmsford MA, US

Assignee:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06Q 10/00
G06F 3/048
H04L 9/32

US Classification:

726 19, 705301, 715764

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and computer program products for project management. A method embodiment for project management includes accepting a designation of disparate enterprise data from disparate sources in an enterprise system as plan data for a project. The disparate enterprise data is governed by business rules in the enterprise system. The method also includes dynamically aggregating the plan data from the disparate data sources; presenting the aggregated plan data in a project management interface; accepting a manipulation of a portion of the aggregated plan data; enforcing business rules on the aggregated plan data in the project management interface; and committing the manipulated aggregated plan data back to the datasources.