Patents by Inventor Ankur N. Shah

Ankur N. Shah has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11954783
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, and a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor. The graphics subsystem may include a first graphics engine to process a graphics workload, and a second graphics engine to offload at least a portion of the graphics workload from the first graphics engine. The second graphics engine may include a low precision compute engine. The system may further include a wearable display housing the second graphics engine. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuo Kuwahara, Deepak S. Vembar, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Radhakrishnan Venkataraman, Brent E. Insko, Anupreet S. Kalra, Hugues Labbe, Abhishek R. Appu, Ankur N. Shah, Joydeep Ray, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Prasoonkumar Surti, Murali Ramadoss
  • Patent number: 11934342
    Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to graphics processor data access and sharing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a circuit element to produce a result in processing of an application; a load-store unit to receive the result and generate pre-fetch information for a cache utilizing the result; and a prefetch generator to produce prefetch addresses based at least in part on the pre-fetch information; wherein the load-store unit is to receive software assistance for prefetching, and wherein generation of the pre-fetch information is based at least in part on the software assistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Varghese George, Aravindh Anantaraman, Valentin Andrei, Abhishek R. Appu, Niranjan Cooray, Nicolas Galoppo Von Borries, Mike MacPherson, Subramaniam Maiyuran, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, David Puffer, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, Ankur N. Shah, Lakshminarayanan Striramassarma, Prasoonkumar Surti, Saurabh Tangri
  • Publication number: 20230418355
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for avoiding cache lookup for cold cache. In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially comprising hardware logic, to collect user information for a user of a data processing device, generate a user profile for the user of the data processing device from the user information, and set a power profile a processor in the data processing device using the user profile. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Kiran C. Veernapu, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Prasoonkumar Surti, Kamal Sinha, Eric J. Hoekstra, Wenyin Fu, Nikos Kaburlasos, Bhushan M. Borole, Travis T. Schluessler, Ankur N. Shah, Jonathan Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20230410247
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a mask buffer to store a mask, a shader communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a first shader pass, and a resolver communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a resolve pass. The resolver may be configured to exclude a sample location not covered by the mask in the resolve pass. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hugues Labbe, Tomer Bar-On, Kai Xiao, Ankur N. Shah, John G. Gierach
  • Publication number: 20230393642
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of reducing dynamic power consumption within a processor device. One embodiment provides a technique for dynamic link width adjustment based on throughput demand for client of an interconnect fabric. One embodiment provides for a parallel processor comprising an interconnect fabric including a dynamically configurable bus widths and frequencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammed Tameem, Altug Koker, Kiran C. Veernapu, Abhishek R. Appu, Ankur N. Shah, Joydeep Ray, Travis T. Schluessler, Jonathan Kennedy
  • Patent number: 11829525
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to enhance an augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) user experience with environmental information captured from sensors located in one or more physical environments. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to track, by an eye tracker sensor, a gaze of a user, and capture, by the sensors, environmental information. The systems, apparatuses and methods may render feedback, by one or more feedback devices or display device, for a portion of the environment information based on the gaze of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Michael Apodaca, Kai Xiao, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Jeffery S. Boles, Adam T. Lake, James M. Holland, Pattabhiraman K, Sayan Lahiri, Radhakrishnan Venkataraman, Kamal Sinha, Ankur N. Shah, Deepak S. Vembar, Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall
  • Patent number: 11797837
    Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units comprising at least a first type of execution unit and a second type of execution unit and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to analyze a workload and assign the workload to one of the first type of execution unit or the second type of execution unit. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Kamal Sinha, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, John C. Weast, Justin E. Gottschlich, Prasoonkumar Surti, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Farshad Akhbari, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Liwei Ma, Jeremy Bottleson, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Travis T. Schluessler, Ankur N. Shah, Jonathan Kennedy, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jahagirdar
  • Publication number: 20230334316
    Abstract: Described herein is a graphics processor comprising a memory device and a graphics processing cluster coupled with the memory device. The graphics processing cluster includes a plurality of graphics multiprocessors interconnected via a data interconnect. A graphics multiprocessor includes circuitry configured to load a modular neural network including a plurality of subnetworks, each of the plurality of subnetworks trained to perform a computer vision operation on a separate subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Kamal Sinha, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Sara S. Baghsorkhi, Anbang Yao, Kevin Nealis, Xiaoming Chen, John C. Weast, Justin E. Gottschlich, Prasoonkumar Surti, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Farshad Akhbari, Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish, Liwei Ma, Jeremy Bottleson, Eriko Nurvitadhi, Travis T. Schluessler, Ankur N. Shah, Jonathan Kennedy, Vasanth Ranganathan, Sanjeev Jahagirdar
  • Patent number: 11768781
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for implementing memory management in a graphics processing system. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a first plurality of graphics processing resources to execute graphics commands and process graphics data; a first memory management unit (MMU) to communicatively couple the first plurality of graphics processing resources to a system-level MMU to access a system memory; a second plurality of graphics processing resources to execute graphics commands and process graphics data; a second MMU to communicatively couple the second plurality of graphics processing resources to the first MMU; wherein the first MMU is configured as a master MMU having a direct connection to the system-level MMU and the second MMU comprises a slave MMU configured to send memory transactions to the first MMU, the first MMU either servicing a memory transaction or sending the memory transaction to the system-level MMU on behalf of the second MMU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Niranjan L. Cooray, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Pattabhiraman K, David Puffer, David J. Cowperthwaite, Rajesh M. Sankaran, Satyeshwar Singh, Sameer Kp, Ankur N. Shah, Kun Tian
  • Patent number: 11763415
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a mask buffer to store a mask, a shader communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a first shader pass, and a resolver communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a resolve pass. The resolver may be configured to exclude a sample location not covered by the mask in the resolve pass. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hugues Labbe, Tomer Bar-On, Kai Xiao, Ankur N. Shah, John G. Gierach
  • Patent number: 11756247
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a focus identifier to identify a focus area, and a color compressor to selectively compress color data based on the identified focus area. Another embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a motion detector to detect motion of a real object, a motion predictor to predict a motion of the real object, and an object placer to place a virtual object relative to the real object based on the predicted motion of the real object. Another embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a frame divider to divide a frame into viewports, a viewport prioritizer to prioritize the viewports, a renderer to render a viewport of the frame in order in accordance with the viewport priorities, and a viewport transmitter to transmit a completed rendered viewport. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Deepak S. Vembar, Atsuo Kuwahara, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Radhakrishnan Venkataraman, Brent E. Insko, Anupreet S. Kalra, Hugues Labbe, Abhishek R. Appu, Ankur N. Shah, Joydeep Ray, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, James M. Holland
  • Patent number: 11733758
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for avoiding cache lookup for cold cache. In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially comprising hardware logic, to collect user information for a user of a data processing device, generate a user profile for the user of the data processing device from the user information, and set a power profile a processor in the data processing device using the user profile. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Kiran C. Veernapu, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Prasoonkumar Surti, Kamal Sinha, Eric J. Hoekstra, Wenyin Fu, Nikos Kaburlasos, Bhushan M. Borole, Travis T. Schluessler, Ankur N. Shah, Jonathan Kennedy
  • Patent number: 11715173
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a mask buffer to store a mask, a shader communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a first shader pass, and a resolver communicatively coupled to the mask buffer to apply the mask to a resolve pass. The resolver may be configured to exclude a sample location not covered by the mask in the resolve pass. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hugues Labbe, Tomer Bar-On, Kai Xiao, Ankur N. Shah, John G. Gierach
  • Patent number: 11710267
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods may provide for technology to process graphics data in a virtual gaming environment. The technology may identify, from graphics data in a graphics application, redundant graphics calculations relating to common frame characteristics of one or more graphical scenes to be shared between client game devices of a plurality of users and calculate, in response to the identified redundant graphics calculations, frame characteristics relating to the one or more graphical scenes. Additionally, the technology may send, over a computer network, the calculation of the frame characteristics to the client game devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Kennedy, Gabor Liktor, Jeffery S. Boles, Slawomir Grajewski, Balaji Vembu, Travis T. Schluessler, Abhishek R. Appu, Ankur N. Shah, Joydeep Ray, Altug Koker, Jacek Kwiatkowski
  • Patent number: 11681349
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of reducing dynamic power consumption within a processor device. One embodiment provides a technique for dynamic link width reduction based on throughput demand for client of an interconnect fabric. One embodiment provides for a parallel processor comprising an interconnect fabric including a dynamically configurable bus widths and frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammed Tameem, Altug Koker, Kiran C. Veernapu, Abhishek R. Appu, Ankur N. Shah, Joydeep Ray, Travis T. Schluessler, Jonathan Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20230115292
    Abstract: An infrastructure for a platform immersive experience is described. An example of an apparatus includes a microcontroller to receive control parameters for platform lighting options for a computing system and information regarding current system conditions for the computing system, and generate control instructions for a lighting pattern for a set of lights based at least in part on the control parameters and the information regarding current system conditions; and host control circuitry to receive the control instructions for the lighting pattern from the microcontroller, and provide control signals to control the set of lights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Lakshminarayana Pappu, Ankur N. Shah, Murali Ramadoss
  • Publication number: 20230094002
    Abstract: Dynamic routing of texture-load in graphics processing is described. An example of an apparatus includes a graphics processor including a plurality of processing engines of a class of processing engines of the graphic processor; a set of queues for the plurality of processing engines; and a unified submit port for the plurality of processing engines, wherein the unified submit port is to notify a scheduler regarding availability of slots in the set of queues for receipt of workload contexts; and wherein, upon the unified submit port receiving a workload context for processing by the plurality of processing engines, the unified submit port is to detect an available processing engine of the plurality of processing engines and direct the received context to a slot of the set of queues for processing by the available processing engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hema Chand Nalluri, Jeffery S. Boles, Joseph Koston, Ankur N. Shah, Vidhya Krishnan, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, Aditya Navale, Murali Ramadoss, James Valerio
  • Publication number: 20230102538
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for supporting generic pointers in hardware of a GPU. According to one embodiment, a GPU includes multiple sub-cores each having a processing resource and a load/store pipeline. The processing resource is operable to receive a memory access message including a pointer and a memory type identifier indicative of the pointer representing a generic pointer. The processing resource is further operable to output a load or store operation to the load/store pipeline based on the memory access message, including computing an address for the load or store operation by adding a base address of a named memory type of a plurality of named memory types referenced by the generic pointer to an offset into a memory of the named memory type. The load/store pipeline is operable to, responsive to receipt of the load or store operation, access the memory at the address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Prathamesh Raghunath Shinde, Ben J. Ashbaugh, Wei-Yu Chen, Abhishek R. Appu, Vasanth Ranganathan, Dmitry Yurievich Babokin, Ankur N. Shah
  • Patent number: 11537403
    Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate control flow in a graphics processing system is disclosed. The apparatus includes logic a plurality of execution units to execute single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) and flow control logic to detect a diverging control flow in a plurality of SIMD channels and reduce the execution of the control flow to a subset of the SIMD channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Subramaniam M. Maiyuran, Guei-Yuan Lueh, Supratim Pal, Gang Chen, Ananda V. Kommaraju, Joy Chandra, Altug Koker, Prasoonkumar Surti, David Puffer, Hong Bin Liao, Joydeep Ray, Abhishek R. Appu, Ankur N. Shah, Travis T. Schluessler, Jonathan Kennedy, Devan Burke
  • Patent number: 11520555
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a processor, memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and a collaboration engine communicatively coupled to the processor to identify a shared graphics component between two or more users in an environment, and share the shared graphics components with the two or more users in the environment. Embodiments of the collaboration engine may include one or more of a centralized sharer, a depth sharer, a shared preprocessor, a multi-port graphics subsystem, and a decode sharer. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Deepak S. Vembar, Atsuo Kuwahara, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Radhakrishnan Venkataraman, Brent E. Insko, Anupreet S. Kalra, Hugues Labbe, Altug Koker, Michael Apodaca, Kai Xiao, Jeffery S. Boles, Adam T. Lake, David M. Cimini, Balaji Vembu, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Philip R. Laws, Ankur N. Shah, Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray, Wenyin Fu, Nikos Kaburlasos, Prasoonkumar Surti, Bhushan M. Borole