Patents by Inventor Atsuo Kuwahara

Atsuo Kuwahara 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: 20240046403
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sorting unit to sort primitives of a graphics image, the primitives to be grouped, each group to form a first level node of a hierarchical acceleration structure; a parallel reconfigurable clustering array to construct the hierarchical acceleration structure, the parallel reconfigurable clustering array comprising a plurality of processing clusters, each cluster comprising: parallel efficiency analysis circuitry to evaluate different groupings of the first level nodes for a next level of the hierarchical acceleration structure to determine efficiency values for the different groupings; and node merge circuitry to merge the first level nodes based on the efficiency values to form second level nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Michael DOYLE, Travis SCHLUESSLER, Gabor LIKTOR, Atsuo KUWAHARA, Jefferson AMSTUTZ
  • Publication number: 20240013470
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for speculative execution of hit and intersection shaders on programmable ray tracing architectures. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) or single-instruction multiple-thread (SIMT) execution units (EUs) to execute shaders; and ray tracing circuitry to execute a ray traversal thread, the ray tracing engine comprising: traversal/intersection circuitry, responsive to the traversal thread, to traverse a ray through an acceleration data structure comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes and to intersect the ray with a primitive contained within at least one of the nodes; and shader deferral circuitry to defer and aggregate multiple shader invocations resulting from the traversal thread until a particular triggering event is detected, wherein the multiple shaders are to be dispatched on the EUs in a single shader batch upon detection of the triggering event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Gabor LIKTOR, Karthik VAIDYANATHAN, Jefferson AMSTUTZ, Atsuo KUWAHARA, Michael DOYLE, Travis SCHLUESSLER
  • Patent number: 11869119
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines a stencil value and uses the stencil value to control, via a stencil buffer, a coarse pixel size of a graphics pipeline. Additionally, the stencil value may include a first range of bits defining a first dimension of the coarse pixel size and a second range of bits defining a second dimension of the coarse pixel size. In one example, the coarse pixel size is controlled for a plurality of pixels on a per pixel basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Karthik Vaidyanathan, Prasoonkumar Surti, Hugues Labbe, Atsuo Kuwahara, Sameer Kp, Jonathan Kennedy, Murali Ramadoss, Michael Apodaca, Abhishek Venkatesh
  • Publication number: 20230421738
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating adaptive resolution and viewpoint-prediction for immersive media in computing environments. An apparatus of embodiments, as described herein, includes one or more processors to receive viewing positions associated with a user with respect to a display, and analyze relevance of media contents based on the viewing positions, where the media content includes immersive videos of scenes captured by one or more cameras. The one or more processors are further to predict portions of the media contents as relevant portions based on the viewing positions and transmit the relevant portions to be rendered and displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: MAYURESH VARERKAR, STANLEY BARAN, MICHAEL APODACA, PRASOONKUMAR SURTI, ATSUO KUWAHARA, NARAYAN BISWAL, JILL BOYCE, YI-JEN CHIU, GOKCEN CILINGIR, BARNAN DAS, ATUL DIVEKAR, SRIKANTH POTLURI, NILESH SHAH, ARCHIE SHARMA
  • Publication number: 20230410720
    Abstract: In one example, a head mounted display system includes at least one memory; and at least one processor to execute instructions to: detect a first position and a first view direction of a head of a user based on sensor data generated by at least one of an accelerometer, at least one camera, or a gyroscope at a first point in time; determine a latency associated with a time to cause an image to be presented on the display; determine a predicted position and a predicted view direction of the head of the user at a second point in time based on the latency; render, prior to the second point in time, the image for presentation on the display based on the predicted position and the predicted view direction of the head of the user; and cause the display to present the rendered image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Atsuo Kuwahara, Deepak S. Vembar, Paul S. Diefenbaugh, Vallabhajosyula S. Somayazulu, Kofi C. Whitney
  • Patent number: 11790490
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for efficiently improving virtual/real interactions in augmented reality. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: capturing a raw image including depth data; identifying one or more regions of interest based on a detected spatial proximity of one or more virtual objects and one or more real objects; generating a super-resolution map of the one or more regions of interest using machine-learning techniques or results thereof; detecting interactions between the virtual objects and the real objects using the super-resolution map; and performing one or more graphics processing or general purpose processing operations based on the detected interactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zhengmin Li, Atsuo Kuwahara, Deepak Vembar
  • Patent number: 11769288
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for speculative execution of hit and intersection shaders on programmable ray tracing architectures. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) or single-instruction multiple-thread (SIMT) execution units (EUs) to execute shaders; and ray tracing circuitry to execute a ray traversal thread, the ray tracing engine comprising: traversal/intersection circuitry, responsive to the traversal thread, to traverse a ray through an acceleration data structure comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes and to intersect the ray with a primitive contained within at least one of the nodes; and shader deferral circuitry to defer and aggregate multiple shader invocations resulting from the traversal thread until a particular triggering event is detected, wherein the multiple shaders are to be dispatched on the EUs in a single shader batch upon detection of the triggering event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gabor Liktor, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Jefferson Amstutz, Atsuo Kuwahara, Michael Doyle, Travis Schluessler
  • Patent number: 11756247
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a focus identifier to identify a focus area, and a color compressor to selectively compress color data based on the identified focus area. Another embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a motion detector to detect motion of a real object, a motion predictor to predict a motion of the real object, and an object placer to place a virtual object relative to the real object based on the predicted motion of the real object. Another embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a frame divider to divide a frame into viewports, a viewport prioritizer to prioritize the viewports, a renderer to render a viewport of the frame in order in accordance with the viewport priorities, and a viewport transmitter to transmit a completed rendered viewport. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Deepak S. Vembar, Atsuo Kuwahara, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Radhakrishnan Venkataraman, Brent E. Insko, Anupreet S. Kalra, Hugues Labbe, Abhishek R. Appu, Ankur N. Shah, Joydeep Ray, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, James M. Holland
  • Patent number: 11750787
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating adaptive resolution and viewpoint-prediction for immersive media in computing environments. An apparatus of embodiments, as described herein, includes one or more processors to receive viewing positions associated with a user with respect to a display, and analyze relevance of media contents based on the viewing positions, where the media content includes immersive videos of scenes captured by one or more cameras. The one or more processors are further to predict portions of the media contents as relevant portions based on the viewing positions and transmit the relevant portions to be rendered and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mayuresh Varerkar, Stanley Baran, Michael Apodaca, Prasoonkumar Surti, Atsuo Kuwahara, Narayan Biswal, Jill Boyce, Yi-Jen Chiu, Gokcen Cilingir, Barnan Das, Atul Divekar, Srikanth Potluri, Nilesh Shah, Archie Sharma
  • Patent number: 11727528
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a sorting unit to sort primitives of a graphics image, the primitives to be grouped, each group to form a first level node of a hierarchical acceleration structure; a parallel reconfigurable clustering array to construct the hierarchical acceleration structure, the parallel reconfigurable clustering array comprising a plurality of processing clusters, each cluster comprising: parallel efficiency analysis circuitry to evaluate different groupings of the first level nodes for a next level of the hierarchical acceleration structure to determine efficiency values for the different groupings; and node merge circuitry to merge the first level nodes based on the efficiency values to form second level nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Doyle, Travis Schluessler, Gabor Liktor, Atsuo Kuwahara, Jefferson Amstutz
  • Patent number: 11721275
    Abstract: In one example, a head mounted display system includes at least one memory; and at least one processor to execute instructions to: detect a first position and a first view direction of a head of a user based on sensor data generated by at least one of an accelerometer, at least one camera, or a gyroscope at a first point in time; determine a latency associated with a time to cause an image to be presented on the display; determine a predicted position and a predicted view direction of the head of the user at a second point in time based on the latency; render, prior to the second point in time, the image for presentation on the display based on the predicted position and the predicted view direction of the head of the user; and cause the display to present the rendered image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuo Kuwahara, Deepak S. Vembar, Paul S. Diefenbaugh, Vallabhajosyula S. Somayazulu, Kofi C. Whitney
  • Patent number: 11682106
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein obtain first image data and the second image data for a foveated image frame to be displayed on a display, the first image data to have a first resolution and the second image data to have a second resolution lower than the first resolution. Disclosed examples also up-sample the second image data based on first metadata to generate up-sampled second image data, the up-sampled second image data to have the first resolution, and combine the first image data and the up-sampled second image data based on second metadata. Disclosed examples further perform, based on third metadata, a combination of at least two different filter operations on an overlap region including a portion of the first image data and a portion of the up-sampled second image data to generate the foveated image frame, the third metadata to specify a width in pixels of the overlap region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron Steyskal, Nausheen Ansari, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Zhiming Zhuang, Atsuo Kuwahara, Gary K. Smith
  • Patent number: 11657781
    Abstract: Computers for supporting multiple virtual reality (VR) display devices and related methods are described herein. An example computer includes a graphics processing unit (GPU) to render frames for a first VR display device and a second VR display device, a memory to store frames rendered by the GPU for the first VR display device and the second VR display device, and a vertical synchronization (VSYNC) scheduler to transmit alternating first and second VSYNC signals to the GPU such that a time period between each of the first or second VSYNC signals and a subsequent one of the first or second VSYNC signals is substantially the same. The GPU is to, based on the first and second VSYNC signals, alternate between rendering a frame for the first VR display device and a frame for the second VR display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anshuman Thakur, DongHo Hong, Karthik Veeramani, Arvind Tomar, Brent Insko, Atsuo Kuwahara, Zhengmin Li
  • Publication number: 20230110339
    Abstract: In one example, a head mounted display system includes at least one memory; and at least one processor to execute instructions to: detect a first position and a first view direction of a head of a user based on sensor data generated by at least one of an accelerometer, at least one camera, or a gyroscope at a first point in time; determine a latency associated with a time to cause an image to be presented on the display; determine a predicted position and a predicted view direction of the head of the user at a second point in time based on the latency; render, prior to the second point in time, the image for presentation on the display based on the predicted position and the predicted view direction of the head of the user; and cause the display to present the rendered image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Atsuo Kuwahara, Deepak S. Vembar, Paul S. Diefenbaugh, Vallabhajosyula S. Somayazulu, Kofi C. Whitney
  • Patent number: 11593154
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to dynamically prioritizing, selecting or ordering a plurality threads for execution by processor circuitry based on a quality of service and/or class of service value/indicia assigned to the thread by an operating system executed by the processor circuitry. As threads are executed by processor circuitry, the operating system dynamically updates/associates respective class of service data with each of the plurality of threads. The current quality of service/class of service data assigned to the thread by the operating system is stored in a manufacturer specific register (MSR) associated with the respective thread. Selection circuitry polls the MSRs on a periodic, aperiodic, intermittent, continuous, or event-driven basis and determines an execution sequence based on the current class of service value associated with each of the plurality of threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmad Samih, Rajshree Chabukswar, Russell Fenger, Shadi Khasawneh, Vijay Dhanraj, Muhammad Abozaed, Mukund Ramakrishna, Atsuo Kuwahara, Guruprasad Settuvalli, Eugene Gorbatov, Monica Gupta, Christine M. Lin
  • Publication number: 20230027960
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to render augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) sensory enhancements using ray tracing. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to normalize environment information captured by multiple capture devices, and calculate, for an observer, the sound sources or sensed events vector paths. The systems, apparatuses and methods may detect and/or manage one or more capture devices and assign one or more the capture devices based on one or more conditions to provide observer an immersive VR/AR experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Travis T. Schluessler, Prasoonkumar Surti, John H. Feit, Nikos Kaburlasos, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Abhishek R. Appu, James M. Holland, Jeffery S. Boles, Jonathan Kennedy, Louis Feng, Atsuo Kuwahara, Barnan Das, Narayan Biswal, Stanley J. Baran, Gokcen Cilingir, Nilesh V. Shah, Archie Sharma, Mayuresh M. Varerkar
  • Publication number: 20220414970
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for speculative execution of hit and intersection shaders on programmable ray tracing architectures. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) or single-instruction multiple-thread (SIMT) execution units (EUs) to execute shaders; and ray tracing circuitry to execute a ray traversal thread, the ray tracing engine comprising: traversal/intersection circuitry, responsive to the traversal thread, to traverse a ray through an acceleration data structure comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes and to intersect the ray with a primitive contained within at least one of the nodes; and shader deferral circuitry to defer and aggregate multiple shader invocations resulting from the traversal thread until a particular triggering event is detected, wherein the multiple shaders are to be dispatched on the EUs in a single shader batch upon detection of the triggering event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Gabor LIKTOR, Karthik VAIDYANATHAN, Jefferson AMSTUTZ, Atsuo KUWAHARA, Michael DOYLE, Travis SCHLUESSLER
  • Patent number: 11520555
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a processor, memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and a collaboration engine communicatively coupled to the processor to identify a shared graphics component between two or more users in an environment, and share the shared graphics components with the two or more users in the environment. Embodiments of the collaboration engine may include one or more of a centralized sharer, a depth sharer, a shared preprocessor, a multi-port graphics subsystem, and a decode sharer. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Deepak S. Vembar, Atsuo Kuwahara, Chandrasekaran Sakthivel, Radhakrishnan Venkataraman, Brent E. Insko, Anupreet S. Kalra, Hugues Labbe, Altug Koker, Michael Apodaca, Kai Xiao, Jeffery S. Boles, Adam T. Lake, David M. Cimini, Balaji Vembu, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jacek Kwiatkowski, Philip R. Laws, Ankur N. Shah, Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray, Wenyin Fu, Nikos Kaburlasos, Prasoonkumar Surti, Bhushan M. Borole
  • Patent number: 11514839
    Abstract: In one example, a head mounted display system includes at least one memory; and at least one processor to execute instructions to: detect a first position and a first view direction of a head of a user based on sensor data generated by at least one of an accelerometer, at least one camera, or a gyroscope at a first point in time; determine a latency associated with a time to cause an image to be presented on the display; determine a predicted position and a predicted view direction of the head of the user at a second point in time based on the latency; render, prior to the second point in time, the image for presentation on the display based on the predicted position and the predicted view direction of the head of the user; and cause the display to present the rendered image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuo Kuwahara, Deepak S. Vembar, Paul S. Diefenbaugh, Vallabhajosyula S. Somayazulu, Kofi C. Whitney
  • Patent number: 11494868
    Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a context engine to determine contextual information, a recommendation engine communicatively coupled to the context engine to determine a recommendation based on the contextual information, and a configuration engine communicatively coupled to the recommendation engine to adjust a configuration of a graphics operation based on the recommendation. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Ankur N. Shah, Abhishek R. Appu, Deepak S. Vembar, ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Atsuo Kuwahara, Travis T. Schluessler, Linda L. Hurd, Josh B. Mastronarde, Vasanth Ranganathan