Patents by Inventor Rudi Bonfiglioli

Rudi Bonfiglioli 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).

  • Tile Assignment to Processing Cores Within a Graphics Processing Unit
    Publication number: 20240062326
    Abstract: A graphics processing unit configured to process graphics data using a rendering space which is sub-divided into a plurality of tiles, the graphics processing unit comprising: a plurality of processing cores configured to render graphics data; cost indication logic configured to obtain a cost indication for each of a plurality of sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space, wherein the cost indication for a set of one or more tiles is suggestive of a cost of processing the set of one or more tiles; similarity indication logic configured to obtain similarity indications between sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space, wherein the similarity indication between two sets of one or more tiles is indicative of a level of similarity between the two sets of tiles according to at least one processing metric; and scheduling logic configured to assign the sets of one or more tiles to the processing cores for rendering in dependence on the cost indications and the similarity indications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Rudi Bonfiglioli, Richard Broadhurst
  • Tile assignment to processing cores within a graphics processing unit
    Patent number: 11803936
    Abstract: A graphics processing unit configured to process graphics data using a rendering space which is sub-divided into a plurality of tiles, the graphics processing unit comprising: a plurality of processing cores configured to render graphics data; cost indication logic configured to obtain a cost indication for each of a plurality of sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space, wherein the cost indication for a set of one or more tiles is suggestive of a cost of processing the set of one or more tiles; similarity indication logic configured to obtain similarity indications between sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space, wherein the similarity indication between two sets of one or more tiles is indicative of a level of similarity between the two sets of tiles according to at least one processing metric; and scheduling logic configured to assign the sets of one or more tiles to the processing cores for rendering in dependence on the cost indications and the similarity indications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Rudi Bonfiglioli, Richard Broadhurst
  • Tile Assignment to Processing Cores Within a Graphics Processing Unit
    Publication number: 20230034968
    Abstract: A graphics processing unit configured to process graphics data using a rendering space which is sub-divided into a plurality of tiles, the graphics processing unit comprising: a plurality of processing cores configured to render graphics data; cost indication logic configured to obtain a cost indication for each of a plurality of sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space, wherein the cost indication for a set of one or more tiles is suggestive of a cost of processing the set of one or more tiles; similarity indication logic configured to obtain similarity indications between sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space, wherein the similarity indication between two sets of one or more tiles is indicative of a level of similarity between the two sets of tiles according to at least one processing metric; and scheduling logic configured to assign the sets of one or more tiles to the processing cores for rendering in dependence on the cost indications and the similarity indications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Rudi Bonfiglioli, Richard Broadhurst
  • Tile assignment to processing cores within a graphics processing unit
    Patent number: 11508028
    Abstract: A graphics processing unit configured to process graphics data using a rendering space which is sub-divided into a plurality of tiles, the graphics processing unit comprising: a plurality of processing cores configured to render graphics data; cost indication logic configured to obtain a cost indication for each of a plurality of sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space, wherein the cost indication for a set of one or more tiles is suggestive of a cost of processing the set of one or more tiles; similarity indication logic configured to obtain similarity indications between sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space, wherein the similarity indication between two sets of one or more tiles is indicative of a level of similarity between the two sets of tiles according to at least one processing metric; and scheduling logic configured to assign the sets of one or more tiles to the processing cores for rendering in dependence on the cost indications and the similarity indications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Rudi Bonfiglioli, Richard Broadhurst
  • Tile Assignment to Processing Cores Within a Graphics Processing Unit
    Publication number: 20200005423
    Abstract: A graphics processing unit configured to process graphics data using a rendering space which is sub-divided into a plurality of tiles, the graphics processing unit comprising: a plurality of processing cores configured to render graphics data; cost indication logic configured to obtain a cost indication for each of a plurality of sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space, wherein the cost indication for a set of one or more tiles is suggestive of a cost of processing the set of one or more tiles; similarity indication logic configured to obtain similarity indications between sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space, wherein the similarity indication between two sets of one or more tiles is indicative of a level of similarity between the two sets of tiles according to at least one processing metric; and scheduling logic configured to assign the sets of one or more tiles to the processing cores for rendering in dependence on the cost indications and the similarity indications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Rudi Bonfiglioli, Richard Broadhurst