Patents Examined by Kim T Tran
  • Patent number: 12141888
    Abstract: In one example, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus is part of a mobile device and comprises: an array of pixel cells each configured to perform an image sensing operation, one or more attributes of the image sensing operation being configurable based on an image sensing configuration; a sensor data processor configured to execute a hierarchical set of processing operations; and a controller configured to: receive, from the sensor data processor, a first-level processing output from a first-level processing operation of the hierarchical set of processing operations; and based on the first-level processing output satisfying a condition, control the sensor data processor to execute a second-level processing operation on at least one image frame captured by the array of pixel cells to generate a second-level processing output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Samuel Berkovich, Allie Del Giorno
  • Patent number: 12014442
    Abstract: A primary processing unit includes queues configured to store commands prior to execution in corresponding pipelines. The primary processing unit also includes a first table configured to store entries indicating dependencies between commands that are to be executed on different ones of a plurality of processing units that include the primary processing unit and one or more secondary processing units. The primary processing unit also includes a scheduler configured to release commands in response to resolution of the dependencies. In some cases, a first one of the secondary processing units schedules the first command for execution in response to resolution of a dependency on a second command executing in a second one of the secondary processing units. The second one of the secondary processing units notifies the primary processing unit in response to completing execution of the second command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Rex Eldon McCrary
  • Patent number: 11138794
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a virtual reality environment comprising: controller circuitry configured to: insert a captured image of an object in the virtual reality environment; move the captured image within the virtual reality environment; pause the movement of the captured image in the virtual reality environment; generate a rendered representation of at least part of the captured image; replace the at least part of the captured image with the rendered representation in the virtual reality environment; and move the rendered representation within the virtual reality environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Michael John Williams, Paul Edward Prayle, Michael Goldman, William Jack Leathers-Smith