Patents by Inventor Andrew T. Lauritzen

Andrew T. Lauritzen 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).

  • Patent number: 10896657
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor, an object space adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust an object space parameter based on a screen space parameter, and a sample adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust a sample parameter of the graphics subsystem based on a detected condition. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Louis Feng, Altug Koker, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini, Nikos Kaburlasos, Joydeep Ray, John H. Feit, Travis T. Schluessler, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Philip R. Laws, Devan Burke, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Publication number: 20200402298
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics pipeline apparatus may include a vertex shader, a visibility shader communicatively coupled to an output of the vertex shader to construct a hierarchical visibility structure, a tile renderer communicatively coupled to an output of the vertex shader and to the visibility shader to perform a tile-based immediate mode render on the output of the vertex shader based on the hierarchical visibility structure, and a rasterizer communicatively coupled to an output of the tile renderer to rasterize the output of the tile renderer based on the hierarchical visibility structure. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew T. Lauritzen, Altug Koker, Louis Feng, Tomasz Janczak, David M. Cimini, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Abhishek Venkatesh, Murali Ramadoss, Michael Apodaca, Prasoonkumar Surti
  • Patent number: 10853995
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that computes, by a shader in a fixed-functionality hardware shader library, a physically based shading model for a type of material. Additionally, the shader may shade one or more surfaces associated with the type of material in accordance with the physically based shading model. In one example, two or more shaders in the shader library are dedicated to different types of materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Louis Feng, Altug Koker, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini
  • Publication number: 20200334200
    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: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: 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
  • Publication number: 20200334896
    Abstract: The systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to adaptively process and aggressively cull geometry data. Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for processing, by a positional only shading pipeline (POSH), geometry data including surface triangles for a digital representation of a scene. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to identify surface triangles in one or more exclusion zones and non-exclusion zones, and cull surface triangles surface triangles in one or more exclusion zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Prasoonkumar Surti, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Atsuo Kuwahara, Hugues Labbe, Sameer Kp, Jonathan Kennedy, Abhishek R. Appu, Jeffery S. Boles, Balaji Vembu, Michael Apodaca, Slawomir Grajewski, Gabor Liktor, David M. Cimini, Andrew T. Lauritzen, Travis T. Schluessler, Murali Ramadoss, Abhishek Venkatesh, Joydeep Ray, Kai Xiao, Ankur N. Shah, Altug Koker
  • Patent number: 10706612
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics pipeline apparatus may include a vertex shader, a visibility shader communicatively coupled to an output of the vertex shader to construct a hierarchical visibility structure, a tile renderer communicatively coupled to an output of the vertex shader and to the visibility shader to perform a tile-based immediate mode render on the output of the vertex shader based on the hierarchical visibility structure, and a rasterizer communicatively coupled to an output of the tile renderer to rasterize the output of the tile renderer based on the hierarchical visibility structure. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew T. Lauritzen, Altug Koker, Louis Feng, Tomasz Janczak, David M. Cimini, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Abhishek Venkatesh, Murali Ramadoss, Michael Apodaca, Prasoonkumar Surti
  • Publication number: 20200211150
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses may provide for deferred geometry rasterization technology that includes a decision controller to determine, based on available resources in a graphics processor and a view frustum, a first portion of graphics information to be output to the graphics processor and a storage device communicatively coupled to the decision controller to store a second portion of the graphics information for future use. Additionally, an output handler may output the first portion of the graphics information to the graphics processor and swap out the second portion for unused graphics information on the graphics processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Louis Feng, Altug Koker, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini
  • Patent number: 10672366
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that detects a memory fence in a thread, adds a group identifier to one or more memory operations in the thread that follow the memory fence, and sends the one or more memory operations and the group identifier to a memory structure. In one example, the group identifier is used to track completion of the one or more memory operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Louis Feng, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Publication number: 20200160534
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that partitions a three-dimensional (3D) scene into a plurality of layers including at least a foreground layer and a background layer. Additionally, the foreground layer may be rendered at a first rate and the background layer may be rendered at a second frame rate, wherein the first frame rate is greater than the second frame rate. In one example, the foreground layer and the background layer are composited into a frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hugues Labbe, Tomer Bar-On, John G. Gierach, Gabor Liktor, Andrew T. Lauritzen
  • 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: 10643374
    Abstract: The systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to adaptively process and aggressively cull geometry data. Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for processing, by a positional only shading pipeline (POSH), geometry data including surface triangles for a digital representation of a scene. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to identify surface triangles in one or more exclusion zones and non-exclusion zones, and cull surface triangles surface triangles in one or more exclusion zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prasoonkumar Surti, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Atsuo Kuwahara, Hugues Labbe, Sameer Kp, Jonathan Kennedy, Abhishek R. Appu, Jeffery S. Boles, Balaji Vembu, Michael Apodaca, Slawomir Grajewski, Gabor Liktor, David M. Cimini, Andrew T. Lauritzen, Travis T. Schluessler, Murali Ramadoss, Abhishek Venkatesh, Joydeep Ray, Kai Xiao, Ankur N. Shah, Altug Koker
  • Publication number: 20200073810
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to track graphics pipeline operations. More particularly, the systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to track operation dependencies between graphics pipeline operations for blocks of pixel samples and stall one or more of the pipeline operations based on the operation dependencies. The systems, apparatuses and methods may further provide cache pre-fetch hardware to monitor processing of blocks of pixel samples and fetch a next block of the pixel samples from the memory into a cache before completion of processing a current block of pixel samples based on one or more of the pipeline operations or a surface state of one or more regions of a screen space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew T. Lauritzen, Gabor Liktor, Tomer Bar-On, Hugues Labbe, John G. Gierach, Joydeep Ray, Travis T. Schluessler, John H. Feit, Nikos Kaburlasos, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Abhishek R. Appu, Balaji Vembu, Altug Koker
  • Publication number: 20200051524
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor, an object space adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust an object space parameter based on a screen space parameter, and a sample adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust a sample parameter of the graphics subsystem based on a detected condition. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Louis Feng, Altug Koker, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini, Nikos Kaburlasos, Joydeep Ray, John H. Feit, Travis T. Schluessler, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Philip R. Laws, Devan Burke, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Publication number: 20200005734
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that detects a memory fence in a thread, adds a group identifier to one or more memory operations in the thread that follow the memory fence, and sends the one or more memory operations and the group identifier to a memory structure. In one example, the group identifier is used to track completion of the one or more memory operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Louis Feng, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Publication number: 20200005526
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that computes, by a shader in a fixed-functionality hardware shader library, a physically based shading model for a type of material. Additionally, the shader may shade one or more surfaces associated with the type of material in accordance with the physically based shading model. In one example, two or more shaders in the shader library are dedicated to different types of materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Louis Feng, Altug Koker, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini
  • Patent number: 10521876
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses may provide for deferred geometry rasterization technology that includes a decision controller to determine, based on available resources in a graphics processor and a view frustum, a first portion of graphics information to be output to the graphics processor and a storage device communicatively coupled to the decision controller to store a second portion of the graphics information for future use. Additionally, an output handler may output the first portion of the graphics information to the graphics processor and swap out the second portion for unused graphics information on the graphics processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Louis Feng, Altug Koker, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini
  • Publication number: 20190371042
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that receives, at a topology shader in a graphics pipeline, an object description and generates, at the topology shader, a set of polygons based on the object description. Additionally, the set of polygons may be sent to a vertex shader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hugues Labbe, Tomer Bar-On, Gabor Liktor, Andrew T. Lauritzen, John G. Gierach
  • Patent number: 10489915
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that partitions a three-dimensional (3D) scene into a plurality of layers including at least a foreground layer and a background layer. Additionally, the foreground layer may be rendered at a first rate and the background layer may be rendered at a second frame rate, wherein the first frame rate is greater than the second frame rate. In one example, the foreground layer and the background layer are composited into a frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hugues Labbe, Tomer Bar-On, John G. Gierach, Gabor Liktor, Andrew T. Lauritzen
  • Patent number: 10452552
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to track graphics pipeline operations. More particularly, the systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to track operation dependencies between graphics pipeline operations for blocks of pixel samples and stall one or more of the pipeline operations based on the operation dependencies. The systems, apparatuses and methods may further provide cache pre-fetch hardware to monitor processing of blocks of pixel samples and fetch a next block of the pixel samples from the memory into a cache before completion of processing a current block of pixel samples based on one or more of the pipeline operations or a surface state of one or more regions of a screen space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew T. Lauritzen, Gabor Liktor, Tomer Bar-On, Hugues Labbe, John G. Gierach, Joydeep Ray, Travis T. Schluessler, John H. Feit, Nikos Kaburlasos, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Abhishek R. Appu, Balaji Vembu, Altug Koker
  • Patent number: 10395623
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that detects a memory fence in a thread, adds a group identifier to one or more memory operations in the thread that follow the memory fence, and sends the one or more memory operations and the group identifier to a memory structure. In one example, the group identifier is used to track completion of the one or more memory operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Louis Feng, Tomasz Janczak, Andrew T. Lauritzen, David M. Cimini, Abhishek R. Appu