Graphic Command Processing Patents (Class 345/522)
  • Patent number: 10964293
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing display hardware for visualizing data a network computer. A modeling engine may provide a data model includes a plurality of data objects and a display model that includes a plurality of display objects that may be based on the plurality of data objects. Action objects may be associated with display objects in the display model. A display engine may display the display model on a hardware display based on context information that includes performance characteristics of the hardware display. In response to a trigger events, action objects may be displayed on the hardware display based on the context information. In response to detecting input signals associated with the action objects the display model may be modified based on the action objects. The modified display model may be displayed on the hardware display based on the context information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Tableau Software, LLC
    Inventors: Vasily Khudyakov, Jewel Loree, Felipe Luis Naranjo
  • Patent number: 10963299
    Abstract: A processor core is configured to execute a parent task that is described by a data structure stored in a memory. A coprocessor is configured to dispatch a child task to the at least one processor core in response to the coprocessor receiving a request from the parent task concurrently with the parent task executing on the at least one processor core. In some cases, the parent task registers the child task in a task pool and the child task is a future task that is configured to monitor a completion object and enqueue another task associated with the future task in response to detecting the completion object. The future task is configured to self-enqueue by adding a continuation future task to a continuation queue for subsequent execution in response to the future task failing to detect the completion object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Anthony Gutierrez, Sooraj Puthoor
  • Patent number: 10942983
    Abstract: An interactive device comprises a user interface arranged to define at least one display request comprising at least location data and display data, a network interface arranged to transmit a request for web page data corresponding to a display request, and a memory for receiving corresponding web page data and customisation data, the web page data comprising map data and/or object data. A web interpreter is arranged to allow the display of a web page and comprising a 3D engine arranged to calculate three-dimensional display data. The web interpreter also comprises a manager operating by an execution cycle and arranged to determine a list comprising at least one operation which can be a request for object data and/or map data or the processing of received data by the 3D engine or the display engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: F4
    Inventors: Gauthier Hellot, Charly Koza, Cécile Giorla, Alexis Galley, Jean-Marc Oury, Bruno Heintz
  • Patent number: 10929944
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a graphics processing unit (GPU) coprocessor are disclosed. The GPU coprocessor includes a SIMD unit with the ability to self-schedule sub-wave procedures based on input data flow events. A host processor sends messages targeting the GPU coprocessor to a queue. In response to detecting a first message in the queue, the GPU coprocessor schedules a first sub-task for execution. The GPU coprocessor includes an inter-lane crossbar and intra-lane biased indexing mechanism for a vector general purpose register (VGPR) file. The VGPR file is split into two files. The first VGPR file is a larger register file with one read port and one write port. The second VGPR file is a smaller register file with multiple read ports and one write port. The second VGPR introduces the ability to co-issue more than one instruction per clock cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiasheng Chen, Timour Paltashev, Alexander Lyashevsky, Carl Kittredge Wakeland, Michael J. Mantor
  • Patent number: 10929946
    Abstract: Multiple-buffered display rendering without the use of hardware or software interrupts. Five buffers can be used: two designated as front buffers and three designated as back buffers. Initially, all five buffers may be targeted for rendering in round robin fashion. As frames are rendered and processed by the graphics device, a frame index counter may be updated to track the ordinal number of each frame rendered by the GPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Channel One Holdings Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Szober, Stephen Viggers, Aidan Fabius
  • Patent number: 10929212
    Abstract: A method of running a network application based on a Point-of-Sale (POS) terminal is provided. The method includes: receiving an operation on a network application; calling a first interface of a JAVASCRIPT layer according to the operation; parsing the first interface and acquiring an object corresponding to the first interface; transmitting a corresponding signal through the object and executing a slot function associated with the signal; calling a second interface of a plug-in layer through the slot function, and calling a hardware module corresponding to the second interface to perform the operation. The POS payment terminal traverses and accesses nodes in an object tree through an embedded graphical user interface system according to a node hierarchy relationship in the object tree, and renders various tag objects contained in the object tree one by one to display a network application page on a display screen of the POS payment terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: PAX COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Sining Ye, Lihong Xie
  • Patent number: 10915507
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for data conversion in a run-time execution environment are provided. In the method and apparatus, a data request specifying a second schema for requested data is received. A data portion is retrieved from a data store, whereby the retrieved data has a first schema. On a condition that the first schema and the second schema are determined to be different, the data portion is converted to the second schema to produce a converted data portion, whereby the conversion is performed based at least in part on data conversion information. The converted data portion is then provided to the run-time execution environment for use in a run-time execution of the computer program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pablo Puo Hen Cheng, Rosen Ognyanov Baklov
  • Patent number: 10909654
    Abstract: A graphics rendering system is provided for controlling the rendering of images to manage expected errors. The graphics rendering system receives a specification of a render task to be performed to render an image of a graphics scene and then identifies computing devices that each have a graphics processing unit. The graphics rendering system directs each of the identified computing devices to render the image specified by the render task such that each identified computing device renders the same image. When the graphics rendering system detects that a computing device has completed the render task successfully, it provides the image rendered by that computing device as the rendered image of the render task such that any other image rendered by another of the computing devices is not needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Ashish Consul, Huy Hoang, Bryan W. Tuttle
  • Patent number: 10902550
    Abstract: A computing system comprises graphics rendering logic and image processing logic. The graphics rendering logic processes graphics data to render an image using a rendering space which is sub-divided into a plurality of tiles. Cost indication logic obtains a cost indication for each of a plurality of sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space, wherein the cost indication for a set of one or more tiles is suggestive of a cost of processing rendered image values for a region of the rendered image corresponding to the set of one or more tiles. The image processing logic processes rendered image values for regions of the rendered image. The computing system causes the image processing logic to process rendered image values for regions of the rendered image in dependence on the cost indications for the corresponding sets of one or more tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: John W. Howson, Richard Broadhurst, Steven Fishwick
  • Patent number: 10901873
    Abstract: Debugging a graphics application executing on a target device. The graphics application may execute central processing unit (CPU) instructions to generate graphics commands to graphics hardware for generation of graphics on a display. A breakpoint for the graphics application may be detected at a first time. In response to detecting the breakpoint, one or more graphics commands which were executed by the graphics hardware proximate to the first time may be displayed. Additionally, source code corresponding to CPU instructions which generated the one or more graphics commands may be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew M. Sowerby, Jean-Francois Roy, Filip Iliescu
  • Patent number: 10901909
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a separate pipe is used in graphics processor for handling accesses, namely reads, to read only (RO) surfaces within caches. Moreover, the caches may have defined read only section and defined read write (RW) sections. The read only section may be accessed through a dedicated read only pipe and the read write section may be accessed through a read write pipe for those surfaces that can also be written. Thus, the read only sections are handled in a read only fashion without the need to accommodate writes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray, Altug Koker, Balaji Vembu, Kamal Sinha, Prasoonkumar Surti, Wenyin Fu, Bhushan M. Borole, Vasanth Ranganathan
  • Patent number: 10885880
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a command streamer may use a cache of programmable size to cache commands to improve memory bandwidth and reduce latency. The size of the command cache may be programmably set by the command streamer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery S. Boles, Hema C. Nalluri, Balaji Vembu, Michael Apodaca, Altug Koker, Lalit K. Saptarshi
  • Patent number: 10885696
    Abstract: A graphics processing unit (GPU) processes graphics data using a rendering space which is sub-divided into a plurality of tiles. The GPU comprises cost indication logic configured to obtain a cost indication for each of a plurality of sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space. The cost indication for a set of tile(s) is suggestive of a cost of processing the set of one or more tiles. The GPU controls a rendering complexity with which primitives are rendered in tiles based on the cost indication for those tiles. This allows tiles to be rendered in a manner that is suitable based on the complexity of the graphics data within the tiles. In turn, this allows the rendering to satisfy constraints such as timing constraints even when the complexity of different tiles may vary significantly within an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: John W. Howson, Richard Broadhurst, Steven Fishwick
  • Patent number: 10881955
    Abstract: A video server is configured to provide streaming video to players of computer games over a computing network. The video server can provided video of different games to different players simultaneously. This is accomplished by rendering several video streams in parallel using a single GPU (Graphics Processing Unit). The output of the GPU is provided to graphics processing pipelines that are each associated with a specific client/player and are dynamically allocated as needed. A client qualifier may be used to assure that only clients capable of presenting the streaming video to a player at a minimum level of quality receive the video stream. Video frames provided by the video server optionally include overlays added to the output of the GPU. These overlays can include voice data received from another game player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Buchanan Gault, David Perry, Rui Filipe Andrade Pereira
  • Patent number: 10885705
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to generating a single vertex list/point-cloud list of an object for rendering the object in different complexity levels. The generated single vertex list comprises a large number of points obtained from external surfaces of the real-time object for detailed 3D representation and the list is updated with new batches of received point cloud vertices. The points are rendered from the single vertex list based on the correlation between zoom level and point retention factor. A scene's zoom/scaling level is altered by changing the distance of a camera to the objects represented by the rendered point cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: IDEAFORGE TECHNOLOGY PVT. LTD.
    Inventor: Dhirendra Sarup
  • Patent number: 10863199
    Abstract: A device for decoding video data can be configured to perform a multi-pass inverse transformation on a plurality of values to derive residual data that represents pixel differences between a current block of video data and a predictive block of the video data, wherein to perform a pass of the multi-pass inverse transformation, the device is configured to determine at least two matrices, wherein the at least two matrices comprise a first matrix and a second matrix; determine at least two vectors, wherein the at least two vectors comprise a first vector and a second vector; and perform at least two matrix-vector computations, wherein the at least two matrix-vector computations comprise a first matrix-vector computation based on the first matrix and the first vector and a second matrix-vector computation based on the second matrix and the second vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Amir Said, Hilmi Enes Egilmez, Marta Karczewicz, Vadim Seregin
  • Patent number: 10861142
    Abstract: A multi-layer low-pass filter is used to filter a first frame of video data representing at least a portion of an environment of an individual. A first layer of the filter has a first filtering resolution setting for a first subset of the first frame, while a second layer of the filter has a second filtering resolution setting for a second subset. The first subset includes a data element positioned along a direction of a gaze of the individual, and the second subset of the frame surrounds the first subset. A result of the filtering is compressed and transmitted via a network to a video processing engine configured to generate a modified visual representation of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Can Jin, Nicolas Pierre Marie Frederic Bonnier, Hao Pan
  • Patent number: 10846900
    Abstract: The systems may include superimposing a canvas layer having a pixel system over the digital map; aligning the coordinate system of the digital map with the pixel system of the canvas layer; obtaining a location coordinate of the coordinate system to each site of interest of a plurality of sites of interest, wherein the location coordinate is associated with a location of the site of interest on the digital map; associating the location coordinate for the site of interest with a pixel in the pixel system; and creating a marker on the canvas layer on the pixel associated with the location coordinate for the site of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Kedar Biradar, Raju Rathi, Kunal Upadhyay, Purushotham Vunnam, Digvijay Yadav
  • Patent number: 10838782
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for detecting higher level events based on lower level events. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a stream model that defines elements of a data domain. A stream mapping that defines sensor identifiers for real-world sensors and associates each sensor identifier with a respective element of the data domain is received. A user-specified stream matching pattern is received. The stream matching pattern specifies respective sensor identifiers of sensor identifiers of the real-world sensors, and for each sensor identifier, a tuple of data elements of the stream model and, for each tuple of data elements, co-occurrence criteria including at least one time window. A stream of events is obtained from the real-world sensors. A determination is made that two or more events co-occur within the time window and whether the one or more co-occurrence criteria are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventor: Edy S. Liongosari
  • Patent number: 10824467
    Abstract: A data processing system in which a host processor prepares command streams for causing an accelerator of the data processing system to perform processing tasks for an application executing on the host processor, each command stream including a sequence of commands for implementation by the accelerator. When a request for processing includes protected content, the host processor includes within a command for a command stream, an indication that a subsequent sequence of one or more command(s) within that command stream associated with the protected content is to be implemented by the accelerator in a protected mode of operation. Then, when that command is executed, the accelerator initiates or requests a switch into the protected mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Mark Underwood, Hakan Lars-Goran Persson
  • Patent number: 10825419
    Abstract: In situations with reduced image changes, display panels, such as the ones disclosed herein, may reduce their power consumption by performing self-refresh cycles, in which they may display locally stored data in the display panel instead of retrieving it from an image buffer. Methods and circuitry for management of the self-refresh cycle may reduce jitter, luminance errors, and/or flickers that may be caused by untimely self-refresh cycles that may occur as a result of latency in the image buffer. In some implementations, the display panel may have a dedicated low latency input that notifies an arrival of an incoming image. In some implementations, the self-refresh cycles of the panel may be managed by a host or a buffer that is responsible for sending the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yue Jack Chu, Christopher P. Tann, Arthur L. Spence, Brad W. Simeral, Yafei Bi, Jiayi Jin, Ruo-Gu Huang, Haifeng Li, Weijun Yao, Chaohao Wang
  • Patent number: 10803628
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure present devices, methods, and computer readable medium for techniques to display rectangular content in non-rectangular display areas without clipping or cutting off the content. These bounding path techniques can be employed for electronic devices with rounded corners and for display of content within software windows for applications, in which the windows have non-rectangular corners. The techniques disclosed include content shifting, aspect fit, run length encoding and corner encoding. These techniques can be applied to both static content and for dynamic content. Memory optimization techniques are disclosed to reduce the memory requirements for encoding display bitmaps and for optimal performance. The run length encoding feature can reduce the time and decrease the memory requirements for determining a location where the content can fit within a viewable area of the display. The corner encoding technique provides for encoding areas with non-linear curves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler M. Fox, Kyle T. Howarth, James R. Montgomerie, Stephen F. Holt
  • Patent number: 10803805
    Abstract: A display panel includes a pixel structure corresponding to a display area, and a receiver antenna structure disposed on the pixel structure. The receiver antenna structure includes multiple receiver antennas providing first signals to the pixels of the pixel structure. Each receiver antenna corresponds to at least one pixel, and has an induced decibel (dB). For each receiver antenna, the induced dB is determined by multiple parameters of the receiver antenna, such as a winding number of the receiver antenna; an outer diameter of the receiver antenna; an inner diameter of the receiver antenna; a line pitch of the receiver antenna; a line width of the receiver antenna; and a line thickness of the receiver antenna. The induced dB of at least one of the receiver antennas is greater than the induced dB of other receiver antennas. The display panel may be used in a tiled micro LED display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: A.U. VISTA, INC.
    Inventors: Wei-Min Cho, Yu-Sheng Huang, Pin-Miao Liu, Ching-Yi Hsu
  • Patent number: 10782975
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a dynamic reconfiguration device and a processor. The dynamic reconfiguration device has a first region with a static configuration, a second region with a changeable configuration, a switch used for bypassing between input and output terminals of the second region, and a crossbar switch used for switching a connection between the first region and the second region. The processor is configured to set a writing destination for a circuit to be reconfigured based on a resource to be used by the circuit if the circuit is to be written in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Ishiwata
  • Patent number: 10769078
    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: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    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: 10748323
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a general purpose graphics processing device, comprising a general purpose graphics processing compute block to process a workload including graphics or compute operations, a memory, and a constant folding unit comprising a processing unit to receive a first input shader and metadata for the first input shader, receive a first constant buffer comprising runtime constants for the first input shader, and generate an improved shader from the first input shader and the runtime constants. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Gierach, Srividya Karumuri, Thomas Raoux, Devan Burke, Wojtek Rajski, Jeremy Brennan
  • Patent number: 10743021
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing a video signal, which can increase the accuracy of the motion vector prediction through motion vector scaling which takes a difference in the temporal distance between reference pictures into consideration. To this end, the present invention provides a video signal processing method and a video signal processing apparatus using the same, and the method comprises the steps of: scaling at least one neighboring partition motion vector for a motion vector prediction of the current partition; scaling the neighboring partition motion vector, which has been selected, when the reference picture of the neighboring partition motion vector is different from the reference picture of the current partition; acquiring a motion vector prediction value of the current partition using the scaled motion vector; and acquiring a motion vector of the current partition using the motion vector prediction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Joonyoung Park, Seungwook Park, Jaehyun Lim, Jungsun Kim, Younghee Choi, Jaewon Sung, Byeongmoon Jeon, Yongjoon Jeon
  • Patent number: 10732411
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and devices for processing a motion-based image by determining a rendering time point that reflects a recent user motion. The methods include obtaining commands or data used in graphics rendering from a memory; determining a rendering time point of a first frame between continuous vertical synchronization signals based on an expected rendering time of the first frame; and rendering the motion-based image based on the commands or the data, and motion-related data corresponding to the rendering time point of the first frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Seung-hun Jin
  • Patent number: 10719303
    Abstract: The disclosure pertains to the operation of graphics systems and to a variety of architectures for design and/or operation of a graphics system spanning from the output of an application program and extending to the presentation of visual content in the form of pixels or otherwise. In general, many embodiments of the invention envision the processing of graphics programming according to an on-the-fly decision made regarding how best to use the specific available hardware and software. In some embodiments, a software arrangement may be used to evaluate the specific system hardware and software capabilities, then make a decision regarding what is the best graphics programming path to follow for any particular graphics request. The decision regarding the best path may be made after evaluating the hardware and software alternatives for the path in view of the particulars of the graphics program to be processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jacques P. Gasselin de Richebourg, Domenico P. Porcino, Timothy R. Oriol
  • Patent number: 10719132
    Abstract: Provided are a device and a method of controlling the device. The method includes obtaining information regarding type of a hovering input unit configured to transmit a hovering input to the device; and displaying a user interface corresponding to the obtained information regarding type of the hovering input unit from among a plurality of user interfaces related to an application executed on the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-sung Joo, Yo-han Kim, Sung-uk Ryu, Jae-jun Lee
  • Patent number: 10699367
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for placement optimization for virtualized graphics processing are disclosed. A provider network comprises a plurality of instance locations for physical compute instances and a plurality of graphics processing unit (GPU) locations for physical GPUs. A GPU location for a physical GPU or an instance location for a physical compute instance is selected in the provider network. The GPU location or instance location is selected based at least in part on one or more placement criteria. A virtual compute instance with attached virtual GPU is provisioned. The virtual compute instance is implemented using the physical compute instance in the instance location, and the virtual GPU is implemented using the physical GPU in the GPU location. The physical GPU is accessible to the physical compute instance over a network. An application is executed using the virtual GPU on the virtual compute instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Patrick Wilt, Ashutosh Tambe
  • Patent number: 10699463
    Abstract: In response to movement of an underlying structure, motion of complex objects connected to that structure may be simulated relatively quickly and without requiring extensive processing capabilities. A skeleton extraction method is used to simplify the complex object. Tracking is used to track the motion of the underlying structure, such as the user's head in a case where motion of hair is being simulated. Thus, the simulated motion is driven in response to the extent and direction of head or facial movement. A mass-spring model may be used to accelerate the simulation in some embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shaohui Jiao, Qiang Li, Wenlong Li
  • Patent number: 10672368
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing improved cache structures and methods that are optimally sized to support a predetermined range of late stage adjustments and in which image data is intelligently read out of DRAM and cached in such a way as to eliminate re-fetching of input image data from DRAM and minimize DRAM bandwidth and power. The systems and methods can also be adapted to work with compressed image data and multiple LSR processing engines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Haraden, Tolga Ozguner, Adam James Muff, Jeffrey Powers Bradford, Christopher Jon Johnson, Gene Leung, Miguel Comparan
  • Patent number: 10649864
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided for capturing and storing state information and other data being used by a web application. For example, one method involves capturing the data and state information from a web application either on demand, on schedule, or on the occurrence of an event; storing the captured information in a persistent memory; subsequent to a closing of the web application, receiving an indication that the web application has been re-opened; presenting one or more options to a user, whereby the user can select a previous version to which the web application should be restored; and using the captured information to restore the web application data and user interface to a state indicated by the selected version.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Veritas Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Mirang Dipak Parikh, Rashmi Vijayvargiya
  • Patent number: 10649956
    Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units, and a first memory communicatively couple to the plurality of execution units, wherein the first shared memory is shared by the plurality of execution units and a copy engine to copy context state data from at least a first of the plurality of execution units to the first shared memory. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Prasoonkumar Surti, David Puffer, Subramaniam Maiyuran, Guei-Yuan Lueh, Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray, Balaji Vembu, Tomer Bar-On, Andrew T. Lauritzen, Hugues Labbe, John G. Gierach, Gabor Liktor
  • Patent number: 10643656
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printer configured to print a character on a printing medium, a display including multiple individual display areas arranged in a particular order, and a controller. The controller is configured to display one of a character image and an icon on each of the multiple individual display areas, the character image being an image indicating the character, the icon corresponding to a control code indicating a process related to a print control of the character, and control printing performed by the printer based on a target code and a target character, the target code being a control code corresponding to the icons displayed in the individual display areas, the target characters being characters indicated by the character images displayed in the individual display areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Minako Ishida
  • Patent number: 10621088
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and machine-readable storage medium to improve memory access performance between shared local memory and system global memory are described. The method comprises grouping two or more work groups to form a super workgroup, and positioning a portion of a memory space into one or more super shared local memories (Super SLMs), wherein the memory space which is shared within the super workgroup forms at least one Super SLM of the one or more Super SLMs. The apparatus comprises: a plurality of execution units; a cache memory having a portion which operates as a shared local memory (SLM), which is shared with the plurality of execution units, at least one of which operates on a work group of a sub-slice, wherein the SLM is shared within the work group; and at least one Super-SLM for providing shared memory accessible by different work groups in the sub-slice, wherein the at least one of the execution units operates on the different work groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jianghong Du, Yong Jiang, Lei Shen, Yuanyuan Li
  • Patent number: 10617955
    Abstract: A method for testing game design assets in a service provider environment may include receiving from a client computing device, a request for testing at least one game design asset. The at least one game design asset associated with the received request may be acquired. The at least one game design asset may be tested in a plurality of available test pipelines. The plurality of available test pipelines are implemented on at least one server computer within the service provider environment. Compliance of the at least one game design asset with one or more game engines associated with the plurality of available test pipelines may be determining during the testing. Compatibility information is generated based on the determined compliance, and the test report is communicated to the client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Kalima Ashman
  • Patent number: 10614542
    Abstract: The present invention provides a GPU resource allocation method. A to-be-distributed kernel program in a kernel status register table is identified by using a global logic controller (201). The global logic controller searches in an SM status register table for an SM that can run at least one complete block, and the SM status register table is configured to store a quantity of available resources in each SM (202). When the global logic controller does not find the SM that can run at least one complete block, the SM status register table is searched for a first SM, and the first SM is an SM that can run at least one warp (203). When the global logic controller finds the first SM, a block in the to-be-distributed kernel program is distributed to the first SM (204).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xusheng Zhan, Cong Wang, YunGang Bao
  • Patent number: 10606572
    Abstract: A flow preparation assisting apparatus calculates a difference between one or more flow data sets and a template flow data set having been a base of the one or more flow data sets, and calculates a dependency relation between node attributes for a template flow indicated by the template flow data set, from the calculated difference. The flow preparation assisting apparatus issues a notification according to the calculated dependency relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuki Naganuma, Hideki Nakamura, Toshio Nishida
  • Patent number: 10589171
    Abstract: Systems and methods for conservation of bandwidth and improved user experience via enhanced streaming of video games. An example method includes receiving a request to remotely play a video game, the video game being executed by the system and streamed to a user device for presentation. The video game is executed, and rendered image frames are generated. Geometry data associated with the rendered image frames is generated, with the geometry data representing locations of geometric elements that form geometry utilized, by the video game, to generate the rendered image frames. The rendered image frames are encoded into a gameplay stream. A first stream comprising the encoded gameplay stream and a second stream comprising the geometry data are provided to the user device. The user device is configured to perform post-processing effects on the rendered image frames encoded in the gameplay stream prior to display on the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.
    Inventor: Max Burke
  • Patent number: 10586304
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media to promote a graphics context when rendering a digital image content with dynamic ranges and/or color gamut outside the current graphics context. Various embodiments render digital image content based on a graphics context that corresponds to an initial image rendering format. During the rendering process a determination is made that indicates the quality of the digital image content exceeds the graphics context's initial capabilities. The various embodiments can select an updated image rendering format based on the quality of the digital image and expand the graphic context's capabilties to correspond with the updated image rendering format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Luke S. Wallis, Ian C. Hendry, Hans Werner Neubrand
  • Patent number: 10567788
    Abstract: Systems and methods for integrated graphics rendering are disclosed. In certain embodiments, the systems and methods utilize a graphics engine, a video encoding engine, and remote client coding engine to render graphics over a network. The systems and methods involve the generation of per-pixel motion vectors, which are converted to per-block motion vectors at the graphics engine. The graphics engine injects these per-block motion vectors into a video encoding engine, such that the video encoding engine may convert those vectors into encoded video data for transmission to the remote client coding engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: ZeniMax Media Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Kopietz
  • Patent number: 10559125
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to construct a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) tree includes: generating 2-dimensional (2D) tiles including primitives; converting the 2D tiles into 3-dimensional (3D) tiles; and constructing the BVH tree based on the 3D tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ankur Deshwal, Vikash Kumar, Keshavan Varadarajan, Parikshit Kolipaka, Soma Kohli
  • Patent number: 10552959
    Abstract: A method and system is provided for storing and analyzing clinical imaging data. The method includes obtaining patient images from two or more modalities, registering the images, determining position information of a voxel, calculating and assigning a quality metric for the voxel, storing the voxel information and at least one searchable header as imaging data in a computer memory, and modifying or maintaining treatment based on the imaging data. The system includes a memory and a processor, the processor configured to obtain images from two or more modalities, register and store the image set in memory, calculate a quality metric for a voxel in the image set, store the voxel quality metric with the image set in the memory, and modify or maintain treatment based on the calculated qualitative metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Inventors: Cameron Anthony Piron, Murugathas Yuwaraj
  • Patent number: 10549203
    Abstract: Systems and methods for synchronizing game play of a video game include detecting selection of a video game for game play at a game server. In response, an instance of the video game is executed at the game server. The execution causes the game play to be provided to a game client for rendering on a main portion of a display screen of the game client. A pre-recorded video associated with the video game is provided for rendering in a second portion of the display screen while the game play is being rendered on the main portion of the display screen. The pre-recorded video rendering in the second portion is dynamically synchronized with the game play of the video game rendering in the main portion so that a game scene rendering in the pre-recorded video matches to a game scene of the game play rendering in the main portion of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment America LLC
    Inventor: David Perry
  • Patent number: 10540280
    Abstract: Techniques for performing cache invalidates and write-backs in an accelerated processing device (e.g., a graphics processing device that renders three-dimensional graphics) are disclosed. The techniques involve receiving requests from a “master” (e.g., the central processing unit). The techniques involve invalidating virtual-to-physical address translations in an address translation request. The techniques include splitting up the requests based on whether the requests target virtually or physically tagged caches. Addresses for the portions of a request that target physically tagged caches are translated using invalidated virtual-to-physical address translations for speed. The split up request is processed to generate micro-transactions for individual caches targeted by the request. Micro-transactions for physically and virtually tagged caches are processed in parallel. Once all micro-transactions for a request have been processed, the unit that made the request is notified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignees: ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC., ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventors: Mark Fowler, Jimshed Mirza, Anthony Asaro
  • Patent number: 10537799
    Abstract: Systems and methods for conservation of bandwidth and improved user experience via enhanced streaming of video games. An example method includes receiving a request to remotely play a video game, the video game being executed by the system and streamed to a user device for presentation. The video game is executed, and rendered image frames are generated. Geometry data associated with the rendered image frames is generated, with the geometry data representing locations of geometric elements that form geometry utilized, by the video game, to generate the rendered image frames. The rendered image frames are encoded into a gameplay stream. A first stream comprising the encoded gameplay stream and a second stream comprising the geometry data are provided to the user device. The user device is configured to perform post-processing effects on the rendered image frames encoded in the gameplay stream prior to display on the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.
    Inventor: Max Burke
  • Patent number: 10522114
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a command streamer may use a cache of programmable size to cache commands to improve memory bandwidth and reduce latency. The size of the command cache may be programmably set by the command streamer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery S. Boles, Hema C. Nalluri, Balaji Vembu, Michael Apodaca, Altug Koker, Lalit K. Saptarshi
  • Patent number: 10521874
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for executing workloads without host intervention. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a host processor; and a graphics processor unit (GPU) to execute a hierarchical workload responsive to one or more commands issued by the host processor, the hierarchical workload comprising a parent workload and a plurality of child workloads interconnected in a logical graph structure; and a scheduler kernel implemented by the GPU to schedule execution of the plurality of child workloads without host intervention, the scheduler kernel to evaluate conditions required for execution of the child workloads and determine an order in which to execute the child workloads on the GPU based on the evaluated conditions; the GPU to execute the child workloads in the order determined by the scheduler kernel and to provide results of parent and child workloads to the host processor following execution of all of the child workloads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jayanth N. Rao, Pavan K. Lanka, Michal Mrozek