Abstract: A cache for use in a tile-based rendering graphics processing system for storing transformed primitive blocks, the graphics processing system having a rendering space sub-divided into a plurality of tiles to which primitives can be associated, the graphics processing system comprising rasterization logic that rasterizes primitives on a per tile basis in a plurality of stages, the cache comprising: memory configured to store a plurality of transformed primitive blocks in the cache, each transformed primitive block comprising transformed geometry data for one or more primitives; control logic configured to: maintain a counter for each of the plurality of transformed primitive blocks stored in the cache that indicates a number of tiles of the plurality of tiles that are currently being processed by the rasterization logic and require access to that transformed primitive block, the counter being updated when any stage of the rasterization logic indicates a tile no longer requires access to the transformed primiti

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU. The apparatus may generate a table including a plurality of entries to store data associated with at least one of a constant value or an immediate value. The apparatus may also process, upon generating the table, first data including at least one of a constant value or an immediate value. Further, the apparatus may store, in the generated table, at least one of the constant value or the immediate value of the first data. The apparatus may also transmit, upon storing at least one of the constant value or the immediate value in the table, the table including the stored at least one of the constant value or the immediate value of the first data.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to transition between 2D and 3D renderings of augmented reality content are disclosed. An example apparatus includes instructions to cause programmable circuitry to: cause projection of an AR object onto at least one of a first surface in a real-world environment or a second surface in the real-world environment; cause the AR object to appear to move with variable depth relative to the first surface; cause the AR object to appear to move at a fixed depth relative to the second surface; cause the AR object to appear to transition from the first surface to the second surface when an apparent depth of the AR object relative to the first surface is within a threshold of the fixed depth; and prevent the AR object from appearing to transition to the second surface when the apparent depth is not within the threshold of the fixed depth.

Abstract: A digital makeup artist system includes a mobile device, a database system storing cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and user look preferences of a user. The mobile device includes a user interface for interacting with a digital makeup artist. The digital makeup artist performs an interactive dialog with the user in order to capture needs of the user, including types of makeup look, indoor or outdoor look, skin condition, facial problem areas, favorite facial features. The computation circuitry analyzes the user's face image to identify face parts, analyzes the face image to determine facial characteristics, and generates image frames to be displayed in synchronization with the interaction with the digital makeup artist based on the analyzed face image, needs of the user, the stored cosmetic routine information, common makeup looks, cosmetic products for skin types and ethnicity, and the user look preferences.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for three-dimensional scanning and measurement by a device having a processor. The processor is configured to receive images of an object from at least two angles; preprocess the images using morphological refinement; create a source point cloud based on the images; remove outliers from the source point cloud; globally register the source point cloud to generate a transformed source point cloud; compare the transformed source point cloud with a target point cloud to generate a stitched point cloud that thereby creates a stitched 3D model; measure the resulting stitched 3D model; and provide the resulting stitched 3D model for comparison to a digitized item to assess sizing of the 3D model to the item.

Abstract: A system including a rendering engine to render a field texture for a field display and a foveal texture for a steerable foveal display and a compositor including a field compositor to generate frames for the field display from the field texture and a foveal compositor to generate frames for the foveal display from the foveal texture. The system further including a composition manager designed to sequence and select what is presented including one or more of data in the field display and the foveal display.

Abstract: An example method of automated creation of artistic digital images comprises: producing a styled digital image by performing stylization of a source digital image based on a specified visual style; identifying a plurality of visual elements of the styled digital image; generating a sequence of digital paint coat layers for the styled digital image, wherein each digital paint coat layer of the sequence of digital paint coat layers covers at least a subset of the plurality of visual elements of the styled digital image, and wherein each digital paint coat layer of the sequence of digital paint coat layers comprises a set of graphic primitives; and producing an output digital image by generating respective sets of graphic primitives of each digital paint coat layer of the plurality of digital paint coat layers, wherein the output digital image exhibits one or more visual features of the visual style.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product describing groups of overlays, such as semantically correlated overlays, to background media content. In the context of a method, a group of overlays to background media content is defined by metadata (60). The overlays include semantically correlated overlays having alternative overlays representing content with different levels of detail or overlays providing different choices of content. The method also includes receiving client selection of a respective overlay from a group of overlays (62). In response to the client selection, the method causes the respective overlay to be provided. The respective overlay is received (64) for presentation concurrent with background media content (68).

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, predicting a field of view of a viewer to obtain a predicted field of view based on information about the viewer and a scoring of a point of interest in media content. A line of sight is obtained between the viewer and a presentation of the media content to obtain a viewer line of sight, and the scoring of the point of interest in the media content is updated to obtain an updated scoring based on the viewer line of sight, the predicted field of view being updated according to the updated scoring. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Techniques are described for computing devices to perform automated operations to determine the acquisition locations of images, such as within a building interior based on automatically determined shapes of rooms of the building, and for using the determined image acquisition location information in further automated manners. The image may be a panorama image or of another type (e.g., a rectilinear perspective image) and acquired at an acquisition location in a multi-room building's interior, and the determined acquisition location for such an image may be at least a location on the building's floor plan and optionally an orientation/direction for at least a part of the image—in addition, the automated image acquisition location determination may be further performed without having or using information from any depth sensors or other distance-measuring devices about distances from an image's acquisition location to walls or other objects in the surrounding building.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for display processing. For example, disclosed techniques facilitate speculative page fault handling in a GPU. Aspects of the present disclosure can perform a graphics operation associated with using a set of constants within a flow control. Aspects of the present disclosure can also query a first memory to determine whether memory addresses associated with the set of constants are allocated at a constant buffer of the first memory. Further, aspects of the present disclosure can set a page fault indicator to a true value when the query indicates that at least one memory address associated with the set of constants is unallocated at the constant buffer, and set the page fault indicator to a false value otherwise.

Abstract: Incompatible graphics frameworks present a barrier to emulating applications of one operating system (guest OS) upon a computer system employing a different operating system (host OS) such as occurs with virtual machines. Accordingly, in order to address limitations of emulating guest OS graphic pipelines upon the host OS the inventors have established methodologies for cross-platform graphics pipeline emulation, thus enabling efficient implementations of cross-platform virtualization solutions, through the establishment of emulation keys to support generic and specific graphics pipelines together with caching sets of graphical pipelines for subsequent retrieval and execution.

Abstract: Stroke special effect program file package generating methods and apparatuses, and stroke special effect generating methods and apparatuses are provided. The stroke special effect program file package generating method includes: obtaining a parameter value of a stroke effect parameter of a target object; and generating a stroke special effect program file package according to the parameter value of the stroke effect parameter of the target object.

Abstract: A method of operating a computing system includes receiving, by a GPU driver included in a CPU of the computing system, a plurality of commands associated with a plurality of rendering targets included in a frame buffer of the computing system, storing the plurality of commands in a command buffer included in the GPU driver, setting, by a command manager included in the GPU driver, at least one unused rendering target among the plurality of rendering targets to a delayed submission mode, and selectively deleting, by the command manager, a command associated with the at least one unused rendering target set to the delayed submission mode from the command buffer based on whether the command includes an instruction to invalidate a rendering result associated with the at least one unused rendering target.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate compute compression is disclosed. The apparatus includes a graphics processing unit including mapping logic to map a first block of integer pixel data to a compression block and compression logic to compress the compression block.

Abstract: A method and system for generating attention pointers, including: displaying, in a display of a mobile device, an object within and outside a field of view (FOV) of an user wherein the object outside the FOV are real objects; monitoring, by a processor of the mobile device, for a change in the object within and outside the FOV; in response to a change, generating by the processor one or more attention pointers within the FOV of the user for directing user attention to the change in the object which is either inside or outside the FOV; and displaying, by the processor, on a virtual screen within the FOV to the user, the one or more attention pointers wherein the one or more attention pointers are dynamically configured to interact with the user in response to detections based on a movement of the user or the object within or outside the FOV of the user.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for compressing vertex parameter data in a 3D computer graphic system, where the vertex parameter data is a data block relating to a plurality of vertices used for rendering an image. The data relating to each vertex includes multiple byte data relating to at least one parameter. The parameters include X, Y and Z coordinates and further coordinates for texturing and shading. The multiple byte data is divided into individual bytes and bytes with corresponding byte positions relating to each vertex are grouped together to form a plurality of byte blocks.

Abstract: In some aspects, systems and methods provide for forming groupings of a plurality of independently-specified computation workloads, such as graphics processing workloads, and in a specific example, ray tracing workloads. The workloads include a scheduling key, which is one basis on which the groupings can be formed. Workloads grouped together can all execute from the same source of instructions, on one or more different private data elements. Such workloads can recursively instantiate other workloads that reference the same private data elements. In some examples, the scheduling key can be used to identify a data element to be used by all the workloads of a grouping. Memory conflicts to private data elements are handled through scheduling of non-conflicted workloads or specific instructions and/or deferring conflicted workloads instead of locking memory locations.

Abstract: A device may receive data associated with a delivery and display a first portion of a route associated with the delivery and first image data of an environment along the first portion. The device may determine that the first portion has been completed and may then display a second portion of the route. During display of the second portion, second image data representing a delivery location associated with the delivery may be presented. The first portion and the second portion may represent portions of the delivery that are completed using different modes of travel.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU. The apparatus may receive a plurality of indices for each of a plurality of primitives. The apparatus may also determine a size of each of a plurality of primitive batches, each of the plurality of primitive batches including at least one primitive of the plurality of primitives. Additionally, the apparatus may divide, based on the determined size of each of the plurality of primitive batches, the plurality of primitives into the plurality of primitive batches. The apparatus may also distribute each of the plurality of primitive batches to each of a plurality of geometry slices, each of the plurality of geometry slices including one or more primitives of the plurality of primitives.