Patents by Inventor Karl D. VULKAN

Karl D. VULKAN 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).

  • Performance control for concurrent animations
    Patent number: 9477998
    Abstract: The embodiments set forth a technique for targeted scaling of the voltage and/or frequency of hardware components included in a mobile computing device. One embodiment involves independently analyzing the individual frame rates of each animation within a user interface (UI) of a mobile computing device instead of analyzing the frame rate of the UI as a whole. This can involve establishing, for each animation being displayed within the UI, a corresponding performance control pipeline that generates a control signal for scaling a performance mode of the hardware components (e.g., a Central Processing Unit (CPU)) included in the mobile computing device. In this manner, the control signals generated by the performance control pipelines can be aggregated to produce a control signal that causes a power management component to scale the performance mode(s) of the hardware components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: John G. Dorsey, Keith Cox, Cyril de la Cropte de Chanterac, Karl D. Vulkan
  • PERFORMANCE CONTROL FOR CONCURRENT ANIMATIONS
    Publication number: 20150348223
    Abstract: The embodiments set forth a technique for targeted scaling of the voltage and/or frequency of hardware components included in a mobile computing device. One embodiment involves independently analyzing the individual frame rates of each animation within a user interface (UI) of a mobile computing device instead of analyzing the frame rate of the UI as a whole. This can involve establishing, for each animation being displayed within the UI, a corresponding performance control pipeline that generates a control signal for scaling a performance mode of the hardware components (e.g., a Central Processing Unit (CPU)) included in the mobile computing device. In this manner, the control signals generated by the performance control pipelines can be aggregated to produce a control signal that causes a power management component to scale the performance mode(s) of the hardware components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: John G. DORSEY, Keith COX, Cyril de la CROPTE de CHANTERAC, Karl D. VULKAN