Patents Examined by Hau H. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11551632
    Abstract: A graphics processing unit (GPU) of a processing system transmits pixel data for a frame to a display in a compressed burst, so that the pixel data is communicated at a rate that is higher than the rate at which the display scans out the pixel data to refresh the frame at a display panel. By transmitting pixel data for the frame in a compressed burst, the GPU shortens the time spent transmitting the pixel data and extends the time before the next frame of pixel data is to be transmitted. During the extended time before the next frame of pixel data is to be transmitted, the GPU saves power by placing portions of the processing system in a reduced power mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventors: Syed Athar Hussain, Anthony W L Koo, David I. J. Glen
  • Patent number: 11550530
    Abstract: A computing device includes a display device, an accelerometer, and an orientation determination module. The orientation determination module sends a heartbeat of orientation data obtained by the accelerometer to a host device at a first data transfer frequency, and compares a plurality of orientation data most recently received from the accelerometer for at least one axis of orientation to the current orientation data measurement. In response to a difference between the current measurement and any of the plurality of orientation data most recently received from the accelerometer exceeding a threshold, the computing device sends the current orientation data to the host device at a second data transfer frequency, and adjust content displayed on the display device based on the current orientation data received by the host device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Daniel James Braden, Robert C. Brooks
  • Patent number: 11544873
    Abstract: Image processing apparatus and image processing method are provided. The image processing apparatus may include an image sensor having a plurality of photodetectors and include a 3D image calculating module. The image sensor may be configured to generate a first set of input information at a first time/first location and a second set of input information at a second time/second location, where the first set of input information may be associated with a first weighting value, and the second set of input information may be associated with a second weighting value. The 3D image calculating module may be configured to generate output information based on the first and the second sets of input information and the first and the second weighting values, wherein at least one of the plurality of photodetectors includes germanium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: ARTILUX, INC.
    Inventors: Shu-Lu Chen, Yu-Shiuan Li, Yun-Chung Na
  • Patent number: 11544898
    Abstract: A method, a device, a computer device and a storage medium for a real-time urban scene reconstruction are provided. The method comprises: obtaining a target image frame and an adjacent image frame corresponding to a target urban scene; locating a position of an object in the target image frame according to the target image frame and the adjacent image frame and obtaining an object point cloud, an object image and a coordinate transformation matrix corresponding to a target object; determining a global characteristic of the target object and parameters of surfaces to be selected of the target object which is configured to determine a characteristic of the surface to be selected; determining a plane combination matrix of the target object; reconstructing a three-dimensional scene model of the target urban scene according to the plane combination matrix, the parameters of the surfaces to be selected and the coordinate transformation matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hui Huang, Yilin Liu
  • Patent number: 11545114
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for data processing, e.g., a display processing unit (DPU). The apparatus may receive data including a plurality of data bits, the data being associated with at least one data source. The apparatus may also determine whether at least a portion of the data corresponds to priority data, the priority data being within a region of interest (ROI). The apparatus may also detect an adjustment amount of the received data when at least a portion of the data corresponds to priority data, the data being displayed or stored based on the detected adjustment amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Paul Christopher John Wiercienski, John Chi Kit Wong, Rahul Gulati, Gary Arthur Ciambella, Sreekanth Modaikkal
  • Patent number: 11543520
    Abstract: A system may include at least one display and at least one processor installed in an aircraft. The at least one processor may be communicatively coupled to the at least one display. The at least one processor may be configured to: obtain aircraft data associated with the aircraft; obtain an azimuth value associated with an azimuth; obtain radar data associated with at least one threat; generate a three-dimensional threat image based at least on the aircraft data, the azimuth value, and the radar data; and output the three-dimensional threat image as graphical data. The at least one display may be configured to display the three-dimensional threat image to a user. The three-dimensional threat image may depict a three-dimensional relationship between the aircraft and the at least one threat. The three-dimensional threat image may convey a range dimension, a lateral dimension extended perpendicularly from the azimuth, and a height dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Teague, Venkata Sishtla, Divesh Lakhi, Mark Fersdahl
  • Patent number: 11527186
    Abstract: An image display system includes: a display device; an image supply device coupled to the display device in such a way as to be able to bidirectionally communicate and supplying an image signal; and an operation terminal having a plurality of operation buttons. The operation terminal transmits an operation signal in response to an operation on the operation button. The display device displays a first image supplied from the image supply device and a second image generated by the display device. On receiving the operation signal, the display device decides a degree of priority of the first image and the second image. The display device transmits a signal to stop updating the first image to the image supply device and executes processing based on the second image when the degree of priority of the second image is higher than the degree of priority of the first image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiki Fujimori
  • Patent number: 11501740
    Abstract: Embodiments of the subject matter described herein relate to a wireless programmable media processing system. In the media processing system, a processing unit in a computing device generates a frame to be displayed based on a graphics content for an application running on the computing device. The frame to be displayed is then divided into a plurality of block groups which are compressed. The plurality of compressed block groups are sent to a graphics display device over a wireless link. In this manner, both the generation and the compression of the frame to be displayed may be completed at the same processing unit in the computing device, which avoids data copying and simplifies processing operations. Thereby, the data processing speed and efficiency is improved significantly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yunxin Liu, Jiansong Zhang, Lintao Zhang, Thomas Moscibroda
  • Patent number: 11502003
    Abstract: A novel image processing method is provided. In a display device in which a video signal is individually supplied to a screen divided into two, the entire screen is subjected to up-conversion processing after being divided, and another up-conversion processing is performed for a boundary portion of the screen divided into two. The divided up-conversion processing for the entire screen and the up-conversion processing for the boundary portion are performed in parallel with the use of a plurality of arithmetic units. The divided up-conversion processing for the entire screen and the up-conversion processing for the boundary portion can be performed using different algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Susumu Kawashima
  • Patent number: 11501410
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and associated methods for dynamically rendering an image with varying detail that emulates human vision and that provides a dynamic resolution or level of detail at each layer of the image that is equal to or greater than the resolvable detail that can be detected by human vision within each layer. The system may adjust a non-linear function based on one or more of a display size, a display resolution, and a viewer distance from a display. The system may determine a dynamic resolution or level of detail for each layer of the image based on the adjusted non-linear function. The system may render the image data at or greater than the dynamic resolution or level of detail determined for each layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Illuscio, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Weingartner, Tim Sung
  • Patent number: 11501467
    Abstract: A remote device utilizes ray tracing to compute a light field for a scene to be rendered, where the light field includes information about light reflected off surfaces within the scene. This light field is then compressed utilizing lossless or lossy compression and one or more video compression techniques that implement temporal reuse, such that only differences between the light field for the scene and a light field for a previous scene are compressed. The compressed light field data is then sent to a client device that decompresses the light field data and uses such data to obtain the light field for the scene at the client device. This light field is then used by the client device to compute global illumination for the scene. The global illumination may be used to accurately render the scene at the mobile device, resulting in a realistic scene that is presented by the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Stengel, Alexander Majercik, Ben Boudaoud, Morgan McGuire, Dawid Stanislaw Pajak
  • Patent number: 11483693
    Abstract: Providing of relevant information to a responder is described. A responder system receives alert data identifying an incident location. Available relevant data for the incident location is stored in the responder system. When relevant data is not stored, relevant data for the incident location is obtained from an external data source and stored in the responder system. While proceeding to the incident location and based on the alert data and the relevant data, initial augmented reality information is prepared for presentation to a responder. Upon arriving at the incident location, second augment reality information is generated. Upon arriving within a localized area of the incident location, an IoT device operable within the localized area is identified and selected and a communications link therewith is established. First IoT device data is received from the selected IoT device, and based thereon third augmented reality information is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: Houston Beemer, Angela Beemer
  • Patent number: 11481105
    Abstract: A networked dialysis system includes a dialysis machine, a user interface, and a device that is located remotely from the dialysis machine and that exchanges information with the dialysis machine via a networked communications link. A digital data processor, which is coupled to the dialysis machine and to the remote device, facilitates execution of services on one or more remote digital data processing systems. The digital data processor is coupled to the remote device via the networked communications link and is coupled to the dialysis machine via a second communications link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Fei Wang, Martin Crnkovich
  • Patent number: 11475533
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for GPR optimization in a GPU based on a GPR release mechanism. More specifically, a GPU may determine at least one unutilized branch within an executable shader based on constants defined for the executable shader. Based on the at least one unutilized branch, the GPU may further determine a number of GPRs that can be deallocated from previously allocated GPRs. The GPU may deallocate, for a subsequent thread within a draw call, the number of GPRs from the previously allocated GPRs during execution of the executable shader based on the determined number of GPRs to be deallocated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Andrew Evan Gruber, Yun Du
  • Patent number: 11467797
    Abstract: Provided is a virtual world construction system that does not impair consistency between virtual worlds and places only small loads on terminals. A client application 10 that is implemented on a user terminal, a plurality of server applications 20 that are implemented on servers, and a proxy 30 that is located on a communication path between the user terminal and the servers and relays operation information and video information are provided. The proxy 30 includes a motion duplication unit 31 that transmits operation information to the plurality of servers by duplicating the operation information, and a video integration/rendering control unit 32 that transmits timing information regarding rendering timing to the plurality of servers, and transmits video information received from at least one of the servers, to the user terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Higo, Ryota Ishibashi, Takuma Tsubaki, Kojun Koshiji, Toshimitsu Tsubaki, Takeshi Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 11443407
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate matrix processing is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a matrix accelerator to receive input matrix data, transform the input matrix data into a plurality of sub-blocks, examine a first block of the sub-blocks to determine whether the first block comprises sparse data, select a first tile size upon a determination that the first block comprises sparse data and generate output matrix data based on the first tile size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Namita Sharma, Supratim Pal, Biju P. Simon, Tovinakere D. Vivek
  • Patent number: 11436696
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for provisioning virtualized tile-based graphics processing circuitry. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: processing resources to process commands including graphics commands and generate results; resource partitioning circuitry to partition the processing resources into a plurality of tiles in accordance with a specified tile-based resource allocation policy; and graphics virtualization circuitry to perform tile-based allocation of the processing resources to a plurality of virtual machines in accordance with a specified virtualization policy, the virtual machines to be executed in a virtualized execution environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ankur N. Shah, Nishanth Reddy Pendluru, Joseph Koston, Murali Ramadoss
  • Patent number: 11429297
    Abstract: Technologies for dividing work across one or more accelerator devices include a compute device. The compute device is to determine a configuration of each of multiple accelerator devices of the compute device, receive a job to be accelerated from a requester device remote from the compute device, and divide the job into multiple tasks for a parallelization of the multiple tasks among the one or more accelerator devices, as a function of a job analysis of the job and the configuration of each accelerator device. The compute engine is further to schedule the tasks to the one or more accelerator devices based on the job analysis and execute the tasks on the one or more accelerator devices for the parallelization of the multiple tasks to obtain an output of the job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Susanne M. Balle, Francesc Guim Bernat, Slawomir Putyrski, Joe Grecco, Henry Mitchel, Evan Custodio, Rahul Khanna, Sujoy Sen
  • Patent number: 11416961
    Abstract: A method includes determining that a new draw call is received; comparing a state identity (ID) of a graphics state stored in the ring storage with a state ID of a graphics state associated with the new draw call; determining if the ring storage has available space to store the graphics state associated with the new draw call; storing the graphics state associated with the new draw call in the ring storage, based on determining that the ring storage has available space; determining a location of a first valid and non-default entry and a last valid and non-default entry of the graphics state associated with the new draw call stored in the ring storage; and collecting data from one or more valid entries of the graphics state associated with the new draw call stored in the ring storage to complete a task associated with the new draw call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sushant Kondguli, Santosh Abraham
  • Patent number: 11409693
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to scalar core integration in a graphics processor. In an example, an apparatus comprises a processor to receive a set of workload instructions for a graphics workload from a host complex, determine a first subset of operations in the set of operations that is suitable for execution by a scalar processor complex of the graphics processing device and a second subset of operations in the set of operations that is suitable for execution by a vector processor complex of the graphics processing device, assign the first subset of operations to the scalar processor complex for execution to generate a first set of outputs, assign the second subset of operations to the vector processor complex for execution to generate a second set of outputs. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Aravindh Anantaraman, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Valentin Andrei, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Varghese George, Mike MacPherson, Ben Ashbaugh, Murali Ramadoss, Vikranth Vemulapalli, William Sadler, Jonathan Pearce, Sungye Kim