Patents by Inventor Alex Dunn

Alex Dunn 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).

  • System and method for optimized sparse volume rendering
    Patent number: 10580198
    Abstract: A system and method of rendering a fluid-like object in a volume space are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) determining a list of bricks in the volume space that the fluid-like object would occupy, (2) grouping the bricks into buckets based on depth values of the bricks and (3) rendering each of the buckets separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventor: Alex Dunn
  • Latency-resistant sparse simulation technique, system and method
    Patent number: 9940689
    Abstract: A Central Processing Unit (CPU), system and method of performing a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) simulation of a fluid-like object in a grid-based simulation space are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) determining, by a CPU, a list of bricks in the simulation space that the fluid-like object would occupy in a future frame based on simulation data of a current frame and (2) updating, based on the list, a virtual table that maps portions of a GPU memory to tiled resources corresponding to the bricks before a simulation of said future frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventor: Alex Dunn
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZED SPARSE VOLUME RENDERING
    Publication number: 20170140569
    Abstract: A system and method of rendering a fluid-like object in a volume space are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) determining a list of bricks in the volume space that the fluid-like object would occupy, (2) grouping the bricks into buckets based on depth values of the bricks and (3) rendering each of the buckets separately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventor: Alex Dunn
  • LATENCY-RESISTANT SPARSE SIMULATION TECHNIQUE, SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20170124679
    Abstract: A Central Processing Unit (CPU), system and method of performing a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) simulation of a fluid-like object in a grid-based simulation space are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) determining, by a CPU, a list of bricks in the simulation space that the fluid-like object would occupy in a future frame based on simulation data of a current frame and (2) updating, based on the list, a virtual table that maps portions of a GPU memory to tiled resources corresponding to the bricks before a simulation of said future frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventor: Alex Dunn