G06T 15/80
Shading
G06T15/80 (Shading) appears on 1,289 US grants and 1,299 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06T- Granted patents
- 1,289
- Published applications
- 1,299
- Assignees
- 335
- Inventors
- 2,127
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 4 | 0 |
| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 9 | 0 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 5 | 0 |
| 1992 | 7 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 14 | 0 |
| 1995 | 11 | 0 |
| 1996 | 5 | 0 |
| 1997 | 11 | 0 |
| 1998 | 16 | 0 |
| 1999 | 9 | 0 |
| 2000 | 9 | 0 |
| 2001 | 15 | 4 |
| 2002 | 14 | 18 |
| 2003 | 26 | 26 |
| 2004 | 31 | 21 |
| 2005 | 18 | 27 |
| 2006 | 18 | 21 |
| 2007 | 16 | 21 |
| 2008 | 9 | 10 |
| 2009 | 16 | 20 |
| 2010 | 13 | 13 |
| 2011 | 19 | 14 |
| 2012 | 19 | 16 |
| 2013 | 17 | 34 |
| 2014 | 17 | 57 |
| 2015 | 36 | 77 |
| 2016 | 55 | 73 |
| 2017 | 96 | 101 |
| 2018 | 93 | 101 |
| 2019 | 113 | 109 |
| 2020 | 126 | 108 |
| 2021 | 102 | 82 |
| 2022 | 78 | 85 |
| 2023 | 70 | 70 |
| 2024 | 73 | 64 |
| 2025 | 58 | 79 |
| 2026 | 26 | 48 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Systems and method for physically based rendering15 Sep 2026US 12,737,970 B2Hexagon Technology Center GmbH
- Method, apparatus, device and medium for fur rendering8 Sep 2026US 12,731,327 B2Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Graphics processing unit (GPU) command streaming25 Aug 2026US 12,714,937 B2Netflix, Inc.
- Displaying a representation of a digital card with a visual effect4 Aug 2026US 12,700,172 B2Apple Inc.
- Three-dimensional cluster simulation on GPU-less systems28 Jul 2026US 12,694,602 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Displaying a representation of a digital card with a visual effect8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311424 A1Apple Inc.
- Rendering 3d curves using orthogonal triangle strips8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311425 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Methods and apparatus for data processing17 Sep 2026US 2026/0278727 A1Arm Limited
- Computational load balancing for 3d virtual environments10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268577 A1thinAir Technologies, Inc.
- Displaying virtual objects using dynamic shading10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268591 A1thinAir Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Deferred shading graphics pipeline processor having advanced features210US 6,717,576 B1Apple Computer, Inc. · 2004
- Graphics processor with deferred shading206US 6,597,363 B1Apple Computer, Inc. · 2003
- Graphics accelerator with dual memory controllers181US 5,664,162 ACirrus Logic, Inc. · 1997
- Advanced video object generator163US 4,727,365 AGeneral Electric Company · 1988
- Apparatus and method for fragment operations in a 3D-graphics pipeline157US 6,614,444 B1Apple Computer, Inc. · 2003