Patents by Inventor DAVID M. CIMINI

DAVID M. CIMINI 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: 11948017
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a graphics processing apparatus that includes a memory device; and a central processing unit (CPU). In some examples, the CPU is configured to: execute a producer to issue graphics command application program interfaces (APIs); execute a driver to translate graphics command APIs into executable instructions; and based on an idle state of the producer, execute a command translation code segment of the producer to translate graphics command APIs into executable instructions. In some examples, the execution unit is coupled to the memory device, the execution unit to execute one or more of the executable instructions. In some examples, the producer includes multiple portions such as application code, graphics pipeline runtime code, and command translation code segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek Venkatesh, Michael Apodaca, Stav Gurtovoy, John H. Feit, Mateusz Przybylski, David M. Cimini
  • Publication number: 20230215400
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor, an object space adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust an object space parameter based on a screen space parameter, and a sample adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust a sample parameter of the graphics subsystem based on a detected condition. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Louis Feng, Altug Koker, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini, Nikos Kaburlasos, Joydeep Ray, John H. Feit, Travis T. Schluessler, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Philip R. Laws, Devan Burke, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Abhishek R. Appu
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11461959
    Abstract: The systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to adaptively process and aggressively cull geometry data. Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for processing, by a positional only shading pipeline (POSH), geometry data including surface triangles for a digital representation of a scene. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to identify surface triangles in one or more exclusion zones and non-exclusion zones, and cull surface triangles in one or more exclusion zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prasoonkumar Surti, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Atsuo Kuwahara, Hugues Labbe, Sameer Kp, Jonathan Kennedy, Abhishek R. Appu, Jeffery S. Boles, Balaji Vembu, Michael Apodaca, Slawomir Grajewski, Gabor Liktor, David M. Cimini, Andrew T. Lauritzen, Travis T. Schluessler, Murali Ramadoss, Abhishek Venkatesh, Joydeep Ray, Kai Xiao, Ankur N. Shah, Altug Koker
  • Publication number: 20220139351
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor, an object space adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust an object space parameter based on a screen space parameter, and a sample adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust a sample parameter of the graphics subsystem based on a detected condition. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Louis Feng, Altug Koker, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini, Nikos Kaburlasos, Joydeep Ray, John H. Feit, Travis T. Schluessler, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Philip R. Laws, Devan Burke, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Publication number: 20210382765
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a graphics processing apparatus that includes a memory device; and a central processing unit (CPU). In some examples, the CPU is configured to: execute a producer to issue graphics command application program interfaces (APIs); execute a driver to translate graphics command APIs into executable instructions; and based on an idle state of the producer, execute a command translation code segment of the producer to translate graphics command APIs into executable instructions. In some examples, the execution unit is coupled to the memory device, the execution unit to execute one or more of the executable instructions. In some examples, the producer includes multiple portions such as application code, graphics pipeline runtime code, and command translation code segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Abhishek VENKATESH, Michael APODACA, Stav GURTOVOY, John H. FEIT, Mateusz PRZYBYLSKI, David M. CIMINI
  • Patent number: 11195497
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that detects a memory fence in a thread, adds a group identifier to one or more memory operations in the thread that follow the memory fence, and sends the one or more memory operations and the group identifier to a memory structure. In one example, the group identifier is used to track completion of the one or more memory operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Louis Feng, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Publication number: 20210294560
    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: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: 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
  • Patent number: 11120766
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor, an object space adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust an object space parameter based on a screen space parameter, and a sample adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust a sample parameter of the graphics subsystem based on a detected condition. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Louis Feng, Altug Koker, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini, Nikos Kaburlasos, Joydeep Ray, John H. Feit, Travis T. Schluessler, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Philip R. Laws, Devan Burke, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Publication number: 20210264558
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to monitor, by a process monitor, one or more processing factors of one or more client devices hosting one or more user sessions. More particularly, the systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to generate, responsively, a scene generation plan based on one or more of a digital representation of an N dimensional space or at least one of the one or more processing factors, and generate, by a global scene generator, a global scene common to the one or more client devices based on the digital representation of the space. The systems, apparatuses and methods may further provide for performing, by a local scene generator, at least a portion of the global illumination based on one or more of the scene generation plan, or application parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Balaji Vembu, David M. Cimini, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Philip R. Laws, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Patent number: 11062506
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics pipeline apparatus may include a vertex shader, a visibility shader communicatively coupled to an output of the vertex shader to construct a hierarchical visibility structure, a tile renderer communicatively coupled to an output of the vertex shader and to the visibility shader to perform a tile-based immediate mode render on the output of the vertex shader based on the hierarchical visibility structure, and a rasterizer communicatively coupled to an output of the tile renderer to rasterize the output of the tile renderer based on the hierarchical visibility structure. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew T. Lauritzen, Altug Koker, Louis Feng, Tomasz Janczak, David M. Cimini, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Abhishek Venkatesh, Murali Ramadoss, Michael Apodaca, Prasoonkumar Surti
  • Patent number: 11049214
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses may provide for deferred geometry rasterization technology that includes a decision controller to determine, based on available resources in a graphics processor and a view frustum, a first portion of graphics information to be output to the graphics processor and a storage device communicatively coupled to the decision controller to store a second portion of the graphics information for future use. Additionally, an output handler may output the first portion of the graphics information to the graphics processor and swap out the second portion for unused graphics information on the graphics processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Louis Feng, Altug Koker, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini
  • Patent number: 10922227
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that detects, by a current stage of a hardware pipeline, a flush request with respect to a first resource and executes, by the current stage, one or more transactions associated with a second resource. Additionally, the current stage may conduct one or more flush operations with respect to the first resource, wherein the one or more transactions associated with the second resource are executed after detection of the flush request and before the one or more flush operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Louis Feng, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M Cimini, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Patent number: 10908865
    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: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Deepak S. Vembar, Atsuo Kuwahara, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Radhakrishnan Venkataraman, Brent E. Insko, Anupreet S. Kalra, Hughes 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
  • Publication number: 20210020143
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that detects a memory fence in a thread, adds a group identifier to one or more memory operations in the thread that follow the memory fence, and sends the one or more memory operations and the group identifier to a memory structure. In one example, the group identifier is used to track completion of the one or more memory operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Louis Feng, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Patent number: 10896657
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor, an object space adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust an object space parameter based on a screen space parameter, and a sample adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust a sample parameter of the graphics subsystem based on a detected condition. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Louis Feng, Altug Koker, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini, Nikos Kaburlasos, Joydeep Ray, John H. Feit, Travis T. Schluessler, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Philip R. Laws, Devan Burke, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Patent number: 10878528
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to monitor, by a process monitor, one or more processing factors of one or more client devices hosting one or more user sessions. More particularly, the systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to generate, responsively, a scene generation plan based on one or more of a digital representation of an N dimensional space or at least one of the one or more processing factors, and generate, by a global scene generator, a global scene common to the one or more client devices based on the digital representation of the space. The systems, apparatuses and methods may further provide for performing, by a local scene generator, at least a portion of the global illumination based on one or more of the scene generation plan, or application parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Balaji Vembu, David M. Cimini, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Philip R. Laws, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Publication number: 20200402298
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics pipeline apparatus may include a vertex shader, a visibility shader communicatively coupled to an output of the vertex shader to construct a hierarchical visibility structure, a tile renderer communicatively coupled to an output of the vertex shader and to the visibility shader to perform a tile-based immediate mode render on the output of the vertex shader based on the hierarchical visibility structure, and a rasterizer communicatively coupled to an output of the tile renderer to rasterize the output of the tile renderer based on the hierarchical visibility structure. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew T. Lauritzen, Altug Koker, Louis Feng, Tomasz Janczak, David M. Cimini, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Abhishek Venkatesh, Murali Ramadoss, Michael Apodaca, Prasoonkumar Surti
  • Patent number: 10853995
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that computes, by a shader in a fixed-functionality hardware shader library, a physically based shading model for a type of material. Additionally, the shader may shade one or more surfaces associated with the type of material in accordance with the physically based shading model. In one example, two or more shaders in the shader library are dedicated to different types of materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Louis Feng, Altug Koker, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini
  • Publication number: 20200334896
    Abstract: The systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to adaptively process and aggressively cull geometry data. Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for processing, by a positional only shading pipeline (POSH), geometry data including surface triangles for a digital representation of a scene. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to identify surface triangles in one or more exclusion zones and non-exclusion zones, and cull surface triangles surface triangles in one or more exclusion zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Prasoonkumar Surti, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Atsuo Kuwahara, Hugues Labbe, Sameer Kp, Jonathan Kennedy, Abhishek R. Appu, Jeffery S. Boles, Balaji Vembu, Michael Apodaca, Slawomir Grajewski, Gabor Liktor, David M. Cimini, Andrew T. Lauritzen, Travis T. Schluessler, Murali Ramadoss, Abhishek Venkatesh, Joydeep Ray, Kai Xiao, Ankur N. Shah, Altug Koker