Patents by Inventor Bret G. Alfieri

Bret G. Alfieri 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).

  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING GRAPHICS PROCESSING PERFORMANCE
    Publication number: 20220051476
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for efficient graphics processing including ray tracing. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processor comprises: execution hardware logic to execute graphics commands and render images; an interface to couple functional units of the execution hardware logic to a tiled resource; and a tiled resource manager to manage access by the functional units to the tiled resource, a functional unit of the execution hardware logic to generate a request with a hash identifier (ID) to request access to a portion of the tiled resource, wherein the tiled resource manager is to determine whether a portion of the tiled resource identified by the hash ID exists, and if not, to allocate a new portion of the tiled resource and associate the new portion with the hash ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Sven Woop, Michael J. Doyle, Sreenivas Kothandaraman, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Abhishek R. Appu, Carsten Benthin, Prasoonkumar Surti, Holger GRUEN, Stephen Junkins, Adam Lake, Bret G. Alfieri, Gabor Liktor, Joshua Barczak, Won-Jong Lee
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT GRAPHICS PROCESSING INCLUDING RAY TRACING
    Publication number: 20220051467
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for efficient graphics processing including ray tracing. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processor comprises: execution hardware logic to execute graphics commands and render images; an interface to couple functional units of the execution hardware logic to a tiled resource; and a tiled resource manager to manage access by the functional units to the tiled resource, a functional unit of the execution hardware logic to generate a request with a hash identifier (ID) to request access to a portion of the tiled resource, wherein the tiled resource manager is to determine whether a portion of the tiled resource identified by the hash ID exists, and if not, to allocate a new portion of the tiled resource and associate the new portion with the hash ID.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Sven Woop, Michael J. Doyle, Sreenivas Kothandaraman, Karthik Vaidyanathan, Abhishek R. Appu, Carsten Benthin, Prasoonkumar Surti, Holger GRUEN, Stephen Junkins, Adam Lake, Bret G. Alfieri, Gabor Liktor, Joshua Barczak, Won-Jong Lee