Patents by Inventor Alec Matthew SHERAN

Alec Matthew SHERAN 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).

  • Publication number: 20240037690
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU or a CPU. The apparatus may obtain visibility information for a set of primitives in at least one frame associated with the graphics processing, where the at least one frame includes a plurality of bins, such that at least one bin of the plurality of bins includes at least one primitive of the set of primitives. The apparatus may also configure a density map based on the visibility information for the set of primitives, where the density map includes density data associated with an amount of the set of primitives in each of the plurality of bins. Further, the apparatus may map the density data for each of the plurality of bins to a shading rate for each of the plurality of bins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Alec Matthew SHERAN, Tate HORNBECK
  • Patent number: 11869115
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU or a CPU. The apparatus may obtain visibility information for a set of primitives in at least one frame associated with the graphics processing, where the at least one frame includes a plurality of bins, such that at least one bin of the plurality of bins includes at least one primitive of the set of primitives. The apparatus may also configure a density map based on the visibility information for the set of primitives, where the density map includes density data associated with an amount of the set of primitives in each of the plurality of bins. Further, the apparatus may map the density data for each of the plurality of bins to a shading rate for each of the plurality of bins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alec Matthew Sheran, Tate Hornbeck
  • Publication number: 20230269388
    Abstract: Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU or CPU. The apparatus may divide a current frame of a plurality of frames into a plurality of blocks. The apparatus may also generate an encoding value representing data for each of the plurality of blocks in the current frame. Further, the apparatus may compare the encoding value representing the data for each block in the current frame with a previous encoding value representing previous data for a corresponding block in a previous frame. The apparatus may also store the data for at least one block in the current frame if the encoding value representing the data for the at least one block is not similar to the previous encoding value representing the previous data for at least one corresponding block in the previous frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Alec Matthew SHERAN, Tate HORNBECK