Nvidia Corporation

Intuit, Inc.

Richard L Clark

Thomas C Martyn

Jun Qiu

Li Lin

Shail Dave

Liangchuan Mi

Zhichao Zu

Karthik Samynathan

Jiukai Ma

Haonong Yu

Gang Han

Terence D Blanchard

David R Morey

Soumendra Daas

Vinash Ks

Gladstone Wilson

Saving power in a mobile terminal includes determining alignment processing moments after the mobile terminal enters a standby mode. Alignable wakeup events, which occur during alignment processing periods corresponding to each alignment processing moment, are thus controlled to commence related processing at each of the alignment processing moments. Power consumption caused by various wakeup events in a standby mode may thus be reduced and battery life of the mobile terminal may thus be improved.

Saving power in a mobile terminal

Methods, systems, and computer program products for data collection and/or software registration during software installation. One or more embodiments involve a computer presenting a screen or interface comprising a screen to a user through a display, during a software installation process of a software program, a web form embedded into a web screen. The web screen may be installation web screen for the software installation process. In at least one embodiment, the web form allows the user to input data. One or more embodiments further involve the computer providing the data inputted by the user to the software program after the installation process is complete. In one or more embodiments, the data is user identification data, customer information data, software registration data, software configuration data, and/or answers by the user to at least one survey.

Data collection and software registration during desktop software installation

Systems and methods for managing window transparency for a computer display, making windows wholly transparent or semi-transparent, on a window-by-window basis. Window transparency is triggered by monitoring messages exchanged between a program and an operating system, or by a user action. Upon detection of a first message indicating that a window of the display should be transparent, a layered display mode for the window is initiated. Upon detection of a second message indicating that the window should no longer be transparent, the layered display mode for the window is terminated. The layered mode can be controlled by the operating system or by a graphics processor.

System and method for providing transparent windows of a display

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for controlling at least one aspect of a graphics hardware processor, in response to a command that is prompted by a vocal utterance.

System, method, and computer program product for voice control of a graphics hardware processor

A first process executing in a computer system creates thread-level message hooks within a second process executing in the computer system. A copy of a global notification hook of the first process is created in the second process. The copy detects a triggering message passed to or from a thread of the second process and determines when and whether to activate a thread-level message hook within the second process; the thread-level message hook is configured to monitor subsequent messages passed to or from the thread of the second process and may take various actions in response to any such messages.

System and method for creating thread-level message hooks

Per-pixel luminosity adjustment uses a luminosity mask applied as a texture. In one embodiment, a luminosity texture is defined. Pixel data of an underlying image is converted to an image texture. The image texture is blended onto a target surface. The luminosity texture is also blended onto the target surface, thereby generating luminosity compensated pixel data for the image.

Per-pixel output luminosity compensation

A method for displaying a desktop display surface. The method includes creating a render target surface having substantially the same dimensions as a desktop display surface, casting the desktop display surface as a texture, and setting the render target surface as a scanout read location. The method further includes creating a two dimensional rectangular object, rendering the two dimensional rectangular object by mapping the desktop display surface texture to the two dimensional rectangular object, storing the rendered two dimensional rectangular object to the render target surface and scanning out the rendered two dimensional rectangular object from the render target surface.

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Kirkland, WA, United States of America

Richard L Clark