Patents by Inventor Joydeep Ray

Joydeep Ray 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).

  • FABRIC-BASED COMPRESSION/DECOMPRESSION FOR INTERNAL DATA TRANSFER
    Publication number: 20200160564
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating fabric-based compression and/or decompression of data at computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes compressing contents of a data stream traveling through an internal fabric between a source component and a destination component, wherein the contents are compressed on the internal fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Vasanth Ranganathan, Joydeep Ray, Abhishek R. Appu
  • ADAPTIVE MULTIBIT BUS FOR ENERGY OPTIMIZATION
    Publication number: 20200160819
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to an adaptive multibit bus for energy optimization are described. In an embodiment, a 1-bit interconnect of a processor is caused to select between a plurality of operational modes. The plurality of operational modes comprises a first mode and a second mode. The first mode causes transmission of a single bit over the 1-bit interconnect at a first frequency and the second mode causes transmission of a plurality of bits over the 1-bit interconnect at a second frequency based at least in part on a determination that an operating voltage of the 1-bit interconnect is at a high voltage level and that the second frequency is lower than the first frequency. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sanjeev S. Jahagirdar, Tapan A. Ganpule, Anupama A. Thaploo, Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray, Altug Koker
  • Switching crossbar for graphics pipeline
    Patent number: 10657096
    Abstract: A shared local memory data crossbar may be implemented in multiple stages. With this approach, the number of multiplexer cells can be reduced by fifty percent (50%) or more in some embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, James A. Valerio, Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Vasanth Ranganathan
  • Coarse grain coherency
    Patent number: 10657618
    Abstract: One embodiment provides for a general-purpose graphics processing device comprising a general-purpose graphics processing compute block to process a workload including graphics or compute operations, a first cache memory, and a coherency module enable the first cache memory to coherently cache data for the workload, the data stored in memory within a virtual address space, wherein the virtual address space shared with a separate general-purpose processor including a second cache memory that is coherent with the first cache memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Altug Koker, James A. Valerio, David Puffer, Abhishek R. Appu, Stephen Junkins
  • DUAL PATH SEQUENTIAL ELEMENT TO REDUCE TOGGLES IN DATA PATH
    Publication number: 20200150741
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for a dual path sequential element to reduce toggles in data path are described. In an embodiment, switching logic causes signals for a single data path of a processor to be directed to at least two separate data paths. At least one of the two separate data paths is power gated to reduce signal toggles in the at least one data path. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Subramaniam Maiyuran, Sanjeev S. Jahagirdar, Kiran C. Veernapu, Eric J. Asperheim, Altug Koker, Balaji Vembu, Joydeep Ray, Abhishek R. Appu
  • Apparatus and method for managing data bias in a graphics processing architecture
    Patent number: 10650483
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for managing data which is biased towards a processor or a GPU. For example, an apparatus comprises a processor comprising one or more cores, one or more cache levels, and cache coherence controllers to maintain coherent data in the one or more cache levels; a graphics processing unit (GPU) to execute graphics instructions and process graphics data, wherein the GPU and processor cores are to share a virtual address space for accessing a system memory; a GPU memory addressable through the virtual address space shared by the processor cores and GPU; and bias management circuitry to store an indication for whether the data has a processor bias or a GPU bias, wherein if the data has a GPU bias, the data is to be accessed by the GPU without necessarily accessing the processor's cache coherence controllers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Balaji Vembu
  • Engine to enable high speed context switching via on-die storage
    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
  • SEPARATELY PROCESSING REGIONS OR OBJECTS OF INTEREST FROM A RENDER ENGINE TO A DISPLAY ENGINE OR A DISPLAY PANEL
    Publication number: 20200143576
    Abstract: Video or graphics, received by a render engine within a graphics processing unit, may be segmented into a region of interest such as foreground and a region of less interest such as background. In other embodiments, an object of interest may be segmented from the rest of the depiction in a case of a video game or graphics processing workload. Each of the segmented portions of a frame may themselves make up a separate surface which is sent separately from the render engine to the display engine of a graphics processing unit. In one embodiment, the display engine combines the two surfaces and sends them over a display link to a display panel. The display controller in the display panel displays the combined frame. The combined frame is stored in a buffer and refreshed periodically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventor: Joydeep Ray
  • Positional only shading pipeline (POSH) geometry data processing with coarse Z buffer
    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
  • HDR enhancement with temporal multiplex
    Patent number: 10643358
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may a performance-enhanced computing system comprising a sensor for measuring luminance values corresponding to light focused onto the sensor at a plurality of pixel locations, a memory including a set of instructions, and a processor. The processor executes a set of instructions causing the system to generate a multi-segment tone mapping curve, generate a set of tone mapping values corresponding to the multi-segment tone mapping curve for equally spaced input values between zero and one for storage into a look up table, and process the luminance values using the look up table to apply the tone mapping curve to the luminance values of the pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Stanley J. Baran, Abhishek R. Appu, Sang-Hee Lee, Atthar H. Mohammed, Jong Dae Oh, Hiu-Fai R. Chan, Joydeep Ray, Kunjal Parikh, Changliang Wang, Srikanth Kambhatla, Gary Smith, Satyanarayana Avadhanam, Richmond Hicks, Robert J. Johnston, Narayan Biswal, Susanta Bhattacharjee
  • Multi-resolution smoothing
    Patent number: 10628907
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods may provide for technology to process multi-resolution images by identifying pixels at a boundary between pixels of different resolutions, and selectively smoothing the identified pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Travis T. Schluessler, Joydeep Ray, John H. Feit, Nikos Kaburlasos, Jacek Kwiatkowski
  • EFFICIENT MULTI-CONTEXT THREAD DISTRIBUTION
    Publication number: 20200117455
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for avoiding cache lookup for cold cache. In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially comprising hardware logic, to determine a first number of threads to be scheduled for each context of a plurality of contexts in a multi-context processing system, allocate a second number of streaming multiprocessors (SMs) to the respective plurality of contexts, and dispatch threads from the plurality of contexts only to the streaming multiprocessor(s) allocated to the respective plurality of contexts. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Altug Koker, Balaji Vembu, Abhishek R. Appu, Kamal Sinha, Prasoonkumar Surti, Kiran C. Veernapu
  • Systems and methods for 360 video capture and display based on eye tracking including gaze based warnings and eye accommodation matching
    Patent number: 10623634
    Abstract: Systems and methods may provide for capturing 360 degree video, and multi-resolution encoding, processing and displaying of the video based on a field of view (FOV) and region of interest (ROI) for a viewer. The ROI may be determined based on eye tracking information (ETI) and the video may be encoded for viewports within the FOV at a high resolution and for other viewports outside the FOV at a lower resolution. ROI in the video may be encoded at a high resolution and areas outside of the ROI may be encoded at a lower resolution. The ETI enables the selective display of one or more warnings based on the gaze of a user to improve the efficiency of the warning. 3D glasses having variable lens may be used to adjust the focal distance of a virtual display to match a virtual distance of an object based on stereo distance cues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Stanley J. Baran, Abhishek R. Appu, Sang-Hee Lee, Atthar H. Mohammed, Jong Dae Oh, Hiu-Fai R. Chan, Joydeep Ray, Barnan Das, Archie Sharma, Richmond Hicks, Changliang Wang, Satyanarayana Avadhanam, Robert J. Johnston, Narayan Biswal
  • AVOID THREAD SWITCHING IN CACHE MANAGEMENT
    Publication number: 20200110721
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for avoiding cache lookup for cold cache. In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially comprising hardware logic, to monitor a thread switching overhead parameter for an application executing in a processing system and in response to a determination that the thread switching overhead parameter exceeds a threshold, to activate a thread management algorithm to reduce thread switching in the processing system. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Abhishek R. Appu, Altug Koker, Joydeep Ray, Kiran C. Veernapu, Balaji Vembu, Vasanth Ranganathan, Prasoonkumar Surti
  • System, Apparatus And Method For Increasing Performance In A Processor During A Voltage Ramp
    Publication number: 20200110458
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a processor includes: a graphics processor to execute a workload; and a power controller coupled to the graphics processor. The power controller may include a voltage ramp circuit to receive a request for the graphics processor to operate at a first performance state having a first operating voltage and a first operating frequency and cause an output voltage of a voltage regulator to increase to the first operating voltage. The voltage ramp circuit may be configured to enable the graphics processor to execute the workload at an interim performance state having an interim operating voltage and an interim operating frequency when the output voltage reaches a minimum operating voltage. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Altug Koker, Abhishek R. Appu, Bhushan M. Borole, Wenyin Fu, Kamal Sinha, Joydeep Ray
  • REGISTER SPILL/FILL USING SHARED LOCAL MEMORY SPACE
    Publication number: 20200111454
    Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating using of a shared local memory for register spilling/filling relating to graphics processors at computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes reserving one or more spaces of a shared local memory (SLM) to perform one or more of spilling and filling relating to registers associated with a graphics processor of a computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Joydeep Ray, Altug Koker, Balaji Vembu, Murali Ramadoss, Guei-Yuan Lueh, James A. Valerio, Prasoonkumar Surti, Abhishek R. Appu, Vasanth Ranganathan, Kalyan K. Bhiravabhatla, Arthur D. Hunter, JR., Wei-Yu Chen, Subramaniam M. Maiyuran
  • MICROCONTROLLER-BASED FLEXIBLE THREAD SCHEDULING LAUNCHING IN COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS
    Publication number: 20200104166
    Abstract: A mechanism is described to facilitate microcontroller-based flexible thread scheduling launching in computing environments. An apparatus of embodiments, as described herein, includes facilitating a graphics processor hosting a microcontroller having a thread scheduling unit, and detection and observation logic to detect a scheduling algorithm associated with an application at the apparatus. The apparatus may further include reading and dispatching logic to facilitate the microcontroller to prepare a flexible dispatch routine based on the scheduling algorithm. The apparatus may further include scheduling and launching logic to facilitate the thread scheduling unit to dynamically schedule and launch threads based on the flexible dispatch routine, where the threads are hosted by the graphics processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Kiran C. Veernapu, Kamlesh Pillai, James Valerio, Joydeep Ray, Abhishek Appu
  • Scatter gather engine
    Patent number: 10607392
    Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units, and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to create a scatter gather list in memory and collect a plurality of operating statistics for the plurality of execution units using the scatter gather list. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Balaji Vembu, Murali Ramadoss, David I. Standring, Shruti A. Sethi, Jeffrey S. Frizzell, Alan M. Curtis, Abhishek R. Appu, Joydeep Ray, Altug Koker
  • HIERARCHICAL DEPTH BUFFER BACK ANNOTATON
    Publication number: 20200098167
    Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a processor performs a coarse depth test on pixel data, and performs a final depth test on the pixel data. Coarse depth data is stored in a coarse depth cache, and per pixel depth data is stored in a per pixel depth cache. If a result of the coarse depth test is ambiguous, the processor is to read the per pixel depth data from the per pixel depth cache, and to update the coarse depth data with the per pixel depth data if the per pixel depth data has a smaller depth range than the coarse depth data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vasanth Ranganathan, Saikat Mandal, Saurabh Sharma, Vamsee Vardhan Chivukula, Karol A. Szerszen, Aleksander Olek Neyman, Altug Koker, Prasoonkumar Surti, Abhishek Appu, Joydeep Ray, Art Hunter, Luis F. Cruz Camacho, Akshay R. Chada
  • COLLABORATIVE MULTI-USER VIRTUAL REALITY
    Publication number: 20200097243
    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: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: 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