Patents by Inventor Michael Apodaca
Michael Apodaca 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).
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Publication number: 20240134527Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a technique to enable access to entries in a surface state or sampler state using 64-bit virtual addresses. One embodiment provides a graphics core that includes memory access circuitry configured to facilitate access to the memory by functional units of the graphics core. The memory access circuitry is configured to receive a message to access an entry in a surface state or a sampler state associated with a parallel processing operation. The message specifies a base address for a surface state entry or sampler state entry. The circuitry can add the base address and the offset to determine a 64-bit virtual address for the entry in the surface state entry or the sampler state and submit a memory access request to the memory to access the entry of the surface state or sampler state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Joydeep Ray, Michael Apodaca, Yoav Harel, Guei-Yuan Lueh, John A. Wiegert
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Patent number: 11960405Abstract: Graphics processors for implementing multi-tile memory management are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics processor includes a first graphics device having a local memory, a second graphics device having a local memory, and a graphics driver to provide a single virtual allocation with a common virtual address range to mirror a resource to each local memory of the first and second graphics devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Zack S. Waters, Travis Schluessler, Michael Apodaca, Ankur Shah
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Patent number: 11948017Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Abhishek Venkatesh, Michael Apodaca, Stav Gurtovoy, John H. Feit, Mateusz Przybylski, David M. Cimini
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Publication number: 20240103073Abstract: Embodiments described herein may be related to apparatuses, processes, systems, and/or techniques for an enclosure, which may be referred to as a cartridge, that surrounds a semiconductor device prior to the semiconductor device being bombarded with an electron beam during operational testing. In embodiments, the enclosure may include a cooling plate that includes a thermal cooling mechanism that is thermally coupled with the semiconductor device to control the temperature of the semiconductor device during testing. The thermal cooling mechanism may include a manifold that extends through the plate through which a cooled fluid, cooled air, or some other cool material may be circulated to cool the semiconductor device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Patrick PARDY, Robert WADELL, Tewodros WONDIMU, Michael APODACA, Joshua FREIER, Amir RAVEH, Eric BRUMMER
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Patent number: 11915459Abstract: Apparatus and method for context-aware compression. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: ray traversal/intersection circuitry to traverse rays through a hierarchical acceleration data structure to identify intersections between rays and primitives of a graphics scene; matrix compression circuitry/logic to compress hierarchical transformation matrices to generate compressed hierarchical transformation matrices by quantizing N-bit floating point data elements associated with child transforms of the hierarchical transformation matrices to variable-bit floating point numbers or integers comprising offsets from a parent transform of the child transform; and an instance processor to generate a plurality of instances of one or more base geometric objects in accordance with the compressed hierarchical transformation matrices.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Carson Brownlee, Carsten Benthin, Joshua Barczak, Kai Xiao, Michael Apodaca, Prasoonkumar Surti, Thomas Raoux
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Patent number: 11900523Abstract: Apparatus and method for bottom-up BVH refit. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a hierarchical acceleration data structure generator to construct an acceleration data structure comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes; traversal hardware logic to traverse one or more rays through the acceleration data structure; intersection hardware logic to determine intersections between the one or more rays and one or more primitives within the hierarchical acceleration data structure; a node unit comprising circuitry and/or logic to perform refit operations on nodes of the hierarchical acceleration data structure, the refit operations to adjust spatial dimensions of one or more of the nodes; and an early termination evaluator to determine whether to proceed with refit operations or to terminate refit operations for a current node based on refit data associated with one or more child nodes of the current node.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Kai Xiao, Michael Apodaca, Carson Brownlee, Thomas Raoux, Joshua Barczak, Gabor Liktor
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Patent number: 11869119Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines a stencil value and uses the stencil value to control, via a stencil buffer, a coarse pixel size of a graphics pipeline. Additionally, the stencil value may include a first range of bits defining a first dimension of the coarse pixel size and a second range of bits defining a second dimension of the coarse pixel size. In one example, the coarse pixel size is controlled for a plurality of pixels on a per pixel basis.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Karthik Vaidyanathan, Prasoonkumar Surti, Hugues Labbe, Atsuo Kuwahara, Sameer Kp, Jonathan Kennedy, Murali Ramadoss, Michael Apodaca, Abhishek Venkatesh
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Patent number: 11871142Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines a frame rate of video content, sets a blend amount parameter based on the frame rate, and temporally anti-aliases the video content based on the blend amount parameter. Additionally, the technology may detect a coarse pixel (CP) shading condition with respect to one or more frames in the video content and select, in response to the CP shading condition, a per frame jitter pattern that jitters across pixels, wherein the video content is temporally anti-aliased based on the per frame jitter pattern. The CP shading condition may also cause the technology to apply a gradient to a plurality of color planes on a per color plane basis and discard pixel level samples associated with a CP if all mip data corresponding to the CP is transparent or shadowed out.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Travis T. Schluessler, Joydeep Ray, John H. Feit, Nikos Kaburlasos, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Prasoonkumar Surti, Michael Apodaca, Murali Ramadoss, Abhishek Venkatesh
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Publication number: 20230421738Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating adaptive resolution and viewpoint-prediction for immersive media in computing environments. An apparatus of embodiments, as described herein, includes one or more processors to receive viewing positions associated with a user with respect to a display, and analyze relevance of media contents based on the viewing positions, where the media content includes immersive videos of scenes captured by one or more cameras. The one or more processors are further to predict portions of the media contents as relevant portions based on the viewing positions and transmit the relevant portions to be rendered and displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: MAYURESH VARERKAR, STANLEY BARAN, MICHAEL APODACA, PRASOONKUMAR SURTI, ATSUO KUWAHARA, NARAYAN BISWAL, JILL BOYCE, YI-JEN CHIU, GOKCEN CILINGIR, BARNAN DAS, ATUL DIVEKAR, SRIKANTH POTLURI, NILESH SHAH, ARCHIE SHARMA
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Patent number: 11829525Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: 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
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Publication number: 20230377209Abstract: Embodiments described herein provided for an instruction and associated logic to enable a processing resource including a tensor accelerator to perform optimized computation of sparse submatrix operations. One embodiment provides a parallel processor comprising a processing cluster coupled with the cache memory. The processing cluster includes a plurality of multiprocessors coupled with a data interconnect, where a multiprocessor of the plurality of multiprocessors includes a tensor core configured to load tensor data and metadata associated with the tensor data from the cache memory, wherein the metadata indicates a first numerical transform applied to the tensor data, perform an inverse transform of the first numerical transform, perform a tensor operation on the tensor data after the inverse transform is performed, and write output of the tensor operation to a memory coupled with the processing cluster.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: ABHISHEK R. APPU, PRASOONKUMAR SURTI, JILL BOYCE, SUBRAMANIAM MAIYURAN, MICHAEL APODACA, ADAM T. LAKE, JAMES HOLLAND, VASANTH RANGANATHAN, ALTUG KOKER, LIDONG XU, NIKOS KABURLASOS
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Publication number: 20230298125Abstract: Described herein is a partitionable graphics processor having multiple render front ends. The partitions of the graphics processor maintain render functionality when partitioned and enable fault isolation and independent multi-client rendering.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Hema Chand Nalluri, Jeffery S. Boles, David Cowperthwaite, Aditya Navale, Prasoonkumar Surti, Arthur Hunter, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, David Puffer, Ankur Shah, Vidhya Krishnan, Kritika Bala, Aravindh Anantaraman, Michael Apodaca, Kenneth Daxer
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Publication number: 20230297421Abstract: Described herein is a partitional graphics processor having multiple hard partitions with separate software execution and fault domains. One embodiment provides a graphics processor comprising a system interface and a plurality of graphics processing resources coupled with the system interface. The plurality of graphics processing resources is configurable to be partitioned into a plurality of isolated device partitions, each isolated device partition configured for fault isolation and independent concurrent execution of workloads associated with a plurality of clients, and the system interface is configured to present each of the plurality of isolated device partitions as a virtual function.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: David Cowperthwaite, Kenneth Daxer, Aditya Navale, Prasoonkumar Surti, Arthur Hunter, Hema Chand Nalluri, Jeffery S. Boles, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, David Puffer, Aravindh Anantaraman, Ankur Shah, Vidhya Krishnan, Kritika Bala, Michael Apodaca
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Patent number: 11750787Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating adaptive resolution and viewpoint-prediction for immersive media in computing environments. An apparatus of embodiments, as described herein, includes one or more processors to receive viewing positions associated with a user with respect to a display, and analyze relevance of media contents based on the viewing positions, where the media content includes immersive videos of scenes captured by one or more cameras. The one or more processors are further to predict portions of the media contents as relevant portions based on the viewing positions and transmit the relevant portions to be rendered and displayed.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Mayuresh Varerkar, Stanley Baran, Michael Apodaca, Prasoonkumar Surti, Atsuo Kuwahara, Narayan Biswal, Jill Boyce, Yi-Jen Chiu, Gokcen Cilingir, Barnan Das, Atul Divekar, Srikanth Potluri, Nilesh Shah, Archie Sharma
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Publication number: 20230244609Abstract: Graphics processors for implementing multi-tile memory management are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics processor includes a first graphics device having a local memory, a second graphics device having a local memory, and a graphics driver to provide a single virtual allocation with a common virtual address range to mirror a resource to each local memory of the first and second graphics devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2022Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: ZACK S. WATERS, TRAVIS SCHLUESSLER, MICHAEL APODACA, ANKUR SHAH
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Patent number: 11710269Abstract: Position-based rendering apparatus and method for multi-die/GPU graphics processing. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: distributing a plurality of graphics draws to a plurality of graphics processors; performing position-only shading using vertex data associated with tiles of a first draw on a first graphics processor, the first graphics processor responsively generating visibility data for each of the tiles; distributing subsets of the visibility data associated with different subsets of the tiles to different graphics processors; limiting geometry work to be performed on each tile by each graphics processor using the visibility data, each graphics processor to responsively generate rendered tiles; and wherein the rendered tiles are combined to generate a complete image frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Travis Schluessler, Zack Waters, Michael Apodaca, Daniel Johnston, Jason Surprise, Prasoonkumar Surti, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Peter Doyle, Saurabh Sharma, Ankur Shah, Murali Ramadoss
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Publication number: 20230186545Abstract: Described herein is a cloud-based gaming system in which multiple views of a spectated E-sports event can be rendered and combined into an immersive video having at least three degrees of freedom. Low-latency generation of the immersive video is facilitated via the use of GPU-controlled non-volatile memory on which rendered data for multiple viewpoints are stored.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Travis Schluessler, Zack Waters, Charles Moidel, Michael Apodaca, Murali Ramadoss, Rajabali Koduri
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Patent number: 11663774Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to render edges of an object defined by multiple tessellation triangles. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to perform anti-aliasing at the edges of the object based on a coarse pixel rate, where the coarse pixels may be based on a coarse Z value indicate a resolution or granularity of detail of the coarse pixel. The systems, apparatuses and methods may use a shader dispatch engine to dispatch raster rules to a pixel shader to direct the pixel shader to include, in a tile and/or tessellation triangle, one more finer coarse pixels based on a percent of coverage provided by a finer coarse pixel of a tessellation triangle at or along the edge of the object.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Prasoonkumar Surti, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Murali Ramadoss, Michael Apodaca, Abhishek Venkatesh, Joydeep Ray, Abhishek R. Appu
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Patent number: 11663746Abstract: Embodiments described herein provided for an instruction and associated logic to enable a processing resource including a tensor accelerator to perform optimized computation of sparse submatrix operations. One embodiment provides hardware logic to apply a numerical transform to matrix data to increase the sparsity of the data. Increasing the sparsity may result in a higher compression ratio when the matrix data is compressed.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Prasoonkumar Surti, Jill Boyce, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Michael Apodaca, Adam T. Lake, James Holland, Vasanth Ranganathan, Altug Koker, Lidong Xu, Nikos Kaburlasos
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Publication number: 20230140640Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that marks a graphics resource as a flush candidate during a current frame, conducts an early flush of a command buffer from the graphics resource if a write event is detected with respect to the graphics resource during a subsequent frame, and bypasses the early flush if the write event is not detected with respect to the graphics resource during the subsequent frame. In one example, the graphics resource is marked as the flush candidate in response to a read back operation of the host processor with respect to the graphics resource, wherein the read back operation retrieves a query result and/or maps a staging resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Stav Gurtovoy, Abhishek Venkatesh, Michael Apodaca, Travis Schluessler, John Feit