MARK GORDON SEGAL
Pilots at 35 Ave, Santa Cruz, CA
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California A4811703
Issued Date
Feb 2016
Expiration Date
Feb 2018
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Airmen
Type
Authorized Aircraft Instructor
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510 35Th Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95062
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Method And Apparatus For Efficient Generation Of Texture Coordinate Displacements For Implementing Emboss-Style Bump Mapping In A Graphics Rendering System
US Patent:
6980218, Dec 27, 2005
Filed:
Nov 28, 2000
Appl. No.:
09/726218
Inventors:
Eric Demers - Redwood City CA, US
Mark M. Leather - Saratoga CA, US
Mark G. Segal - Santa Cruz CA, US
Mark M. Leather - Saratoga CA, US
Mark G. Segal - Santa Cruz CA, US
Assignee:
Nintendo Co., Ltd. - Kyoto
International Classification:
G09G005/00
US Classification:
345584, 345582
Abstract:
A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. The system includes a graphics and audio processor including a 3D graphics pipeline and an audio digital signal processor. Emboss style effects are created using fully pipelined hardware including two distinct dot-product computation units that perform a scaled model view matrix multiply without requiring the Normal input vector and which also compute dot-products between the Binormal and Tangent vectors and a light direction vector in parallel. The resulting texture coordinate displacements are provided to texture mapping hardware that performs a texture mapping operation providing texture combining in one pass. The disclosed pipelined arrangement efficiently provides interesting embossed style image effects such as raised and lowered patterns on surfaces.
Method And Apparatus For Efficient Generation Of Texture Coordinate Displacements For Implementing Emboss-Style Bump Mapping In A Graphics Rendering System
US Patent:
7307640, Dec 11, 2007
Filed:
Apr 15, 2005
Appl. No.:
11/106673
Inventors:
Eric Demers - Redwood City CA, US
Mark M. Leather - Saratoga CA, US
Mark G. Segal - Santa Cruz CA, US
Mark M. Leather - Saratoga CA, US
Mark G. Segal - Santa Cruz CA, US
Assignee:
Nintendo Co., Ltd. - Kyoto
International Classification:
G09G 5/00, G06T 15/00, G06T 15/10, G06T 15/20
US Classification:
345584, 345582, 345427, 345419
Abstract:
A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. The system includes a graphics and audio processor including a 3D graphics pipeline and an audio digital signal processor. Emboss style effects are created using fully pipelined hardware including two distinct dot-product computation units that perform a scaled model view matrix multiply without requiring the Normal input vector and which also compute dot-products between the Binormal and Tangent vectors and a light direction vector in parallel. The resulting texture coordinate displacements are provided to texture mapping hardware that performs a texture mapping operation providing texture combining in one pass. The disclosed pipelined arrangement efficiently provides interesting embossed style image effects such as raised and lowered patterns on surfaces.