Asynchronous in-system testing for autonomous systems and applications
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12291219
Systems and methods are disclosed that relate to testing processing elements of an integrated processing system. A first system test may be performed on a first processing element of an integrated processing system. The first system test may be based at least on accessing a test node associated with the first processing element. The first system test may be accessed using a first local test controller. A second system test may be performed on a second processing element of the integrated…
Sensor data based map creation for autonomous systems and applications
Granted: May 6, 2025
Patent Number:
12292495
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to generation of map data. In these or other embodiments, the generation of the map data may include determining whether objects indicated by the sensor data are static objects or dynamic objects. Additionally or alternatively, sensor data may be removed or included in the map data based on determinations as to whether it corresponds to static objects or dynamic objects.
Three-dimensional intersection structure prediction for autonomous driving applications
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12286115
In various examples, a three-dimensional (3D) intersection structure may be predicted using a deep neural network (DNN) based on processing two-dimensional (2D) input data. To train the DNN to accurately predict 3D intersection structures from 2D inputs, the DNN may be trained using a first loss function that compares 3D outputs of the DNN—after conversion to 2D space—to 2D ground truth data and a second loss function that analyzes the 3D predictions of the DNN in view of one or more…
Detecting and testing task optimizations using frame interception in content generation systems and applications
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12288098
Approaches presented herein provide for the optimization of tasks performed for an operation such as the rendering of an image. A Frame Interceptor (FI) can generate a resource dependency graph (RDG) by intercepting API calls during the rendering process and determining dependencies. FI can analyze the RDG to identify potential optimizations, such as may correspond to reordering or parallel execution of certain tasks. FI can automatically test optimizations to determine whether…
High-precision semantic image editing using neural networks for synthetic data generation systems and applications
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12288277
In various examples, high-precision semantic image editing for machine learning systems and applications are described. For example, a generative adversarial network (GAN) may be used to jointly model images and their semantic segmentations based on a same underlying latent code. Image editing may be achieved by using segmentation mask modifications (e.g., provided by a user, or otherwise) to optimize the latent code to be consistent with the updated segmentation, thus effectively…
Sensor calibration for autonomous systems and applications
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12288363
In various examples, sensor configuration for autonomous or semi-autonomous systems and applications is described. Systems and methods are disclosed that may use image feature correspondences between camera images along with an assumption that image features are locally planar to determine parameters for calibrating an image sensor with a LiDAR sensor and/or another image sensor. In some examples, an optimization problem is constructed that attempts to minimize a geometric loss function,…
Occupant attentiveness and cognitive load monitoring for autonomous and semi-autonomous driving applications
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12288403
In various examples, estimated field of view or gaze information of a user may be projected external to a vehicle and compared to vehicle perception information corresponding to an environment outside of the vehicle. As a result, interior monitoring of a driver or occupant of the vehicle may be used to determine whether the driver or occupant has processed or seen certain object types, environmental conditions, or other information exterior to the vehicle. For a more holistic…
Resolution upscaling for event detection
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12288404
A game-agnostic event detector can be used to automatically identify game events. Game-specific configuration data can be used to specify types of pre-processing to be performed on media for a game session, as well as types of detectors to be used to detect events for the game. Event data for detected events can be written to an event log in a form that is both human- and process-readable. The event data can be used for various purposes, such as to generate highlight videos or provide…
Conversational AI-encoded language for video navigation
Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number:
12288570
Systems and methods of compressing video content as encoded data and selectively reconstructing portions of the content are disclosed. The proposed systems provide a computer-implemented process configured to classify a person's behavior(s) during a video and encode the behaviors as a representation of the video. When playback of the video is requested, a video navigation assistant will allow the end-user to select specific segments of the video based on topics discussed in the video and…
Application programming interface to accelerate matrix operations
Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number:
12282526
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to determine a matrix multiplication algorithm for a matrix multiplication operation. In at least one embodiment, a matrix multiplication operation is analyzed to determine an appropriate matrix multiplication algorithm to perform the matrix multiplication algorithm.
Recovery of clustered storage systems
Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number:
12282676
A cluster storage system takes snapshots that are consistent across all storage nodes. The storage system can nearly instantaneously promote a set of consistent snapshots to their respective base volumes to restore the base volumes to be the same as the snapshots. Given these two capabilities, users can restore the system to a recovery point of the user's choice, by turning off storage service I/O, promoting the snapshots constituting the recovery point, rebooting their servers, and…
Spatio-temporal noise masks for image processing
Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number:
12283028
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to generate blue noise masks for real-time image rendering and enhancement. In at least one embodiment, a noise mask is generated and applied to one or more images to generate one or more enhanced images for image processing (e.g., real-time image rendering). In at least one embodiment, the noise mask is able to handle the temporal domain (e.g., add time to the spatial domain) to improve image quality when rendering images over multiple frames.
Emergency response vehicle detection for autonomous driving applications
Granted: April 22, 2025
Patent Number:
12283187
In various examples, audio alerts of emergency response vehicles may be detected and classified using audio captured by microphones of an autonomous or semi-autonomous machine in order to identify travel directions, locations, and/or types of emergency response vehicles in the environment. For example, a plurality of microphone arrays may be disposed on an autonomous or semi-autonomous machine and used to generate audio signals corresponding to sounds in the environment. These audio…
Parallel refrigerant cooling in datacenter cooling systems
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12279401
Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, multiple parallel refrigerant paths are associated with one or more flow controllers to cool multiple computing devices associated therewith, so that one or more flow controllers can distribute equal measures of a liquid phase of refrigerant, relative to a vapor phase of a refrigerant, to such parallel refrigerant paths based in part on a cooling requirement from at least one of such multiple…
Automatic dataset creation using software tags
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277406
Traditionally, a software application is developed, tested, and then published for use by end users. Any subsequent update made to the software application is generally in the form of a human programmed modification made to the code in the software application itself, and further only becomes usable once tested, published, and installed by end users having the previous version of the software application. This typical software application lifecycle causes delays in not only generating…
Rail power density aware standard cell placement for integrated circuits
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277376
To ensure proper operation (e.g., speed and/or function) of standard cells fabricated within an integrated circuit a minimum potential difference between the high and low power supply rails needs to be maintained. IR drop refers to a reduction in the potential difference between the power supply rails and is caused when the switching activity of cells that share a power supply rail is greater than can be provided at a particular time. Before fabrication, placement of the cells is…
Test data authentication and processing using scalable data structures
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277043
A system can include a memory and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory, to perform operations including receiving a header block of an ordered set of blocks. The header block includes a header block payload and a first digest. The operations further include authenticating, based on the header block payload, the header block, and receiving a first data block of the ordered set of blocks. The first data block includes a first data block payload and a second digest. The…
Simulation of tasks using neural networks
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12275146
A machine-learning control system is trained to perform a task using a simulation. The simulation is governed by parameters that, in various embodiments, are not precisely known. In an embodiment, the parameters are specified with an initial value and expected range. After training on the simulation, the machine-learning control system attempts to perform the task in the real world. In an embodiment, the results of the attempt are compared to the expected results of the simulation, and…
Fifth generation (5G) new radio channel equalization
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273220
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform signal processing operations in a fifth generation (“5G”) radio signal. In at least one embodiment, one or more processors equalize, in parallel, one or more 5G radio signals.
Scalable semantic image retrieval with deep template matching
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272148
Approaches presented herein provide for semantic data matching, as may be useful for selecting data from a large unlabeled dataset to train a neural network. For an object detection use case, such a process can identify images within an unlabeled set even when an object of interest represents a relatively small portion of an image or there are many other objects in the image. A query image can be processed to extract image features or feature maps from only one or more regions of…
