Dynamic allocation of compute resources for highlight generation in cloud gaming systems
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11938406
In various examples, compute resources may be allocated for highlight generation in cloud gaming systems. Systems and methods are disclosed that distribute, between and among various devices, processing including user interface generation and overlay, analysis of game streams for actionable events, generation of highlights, storage of highlights, and sharing of highlights. The distribution of processing or compute resources within the cloud gaming system may be dependent on system…
Scenario recreation through object detection and 3D visualization in a multi-sensor environment
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941887
The present disclosure provides various approaches for smart area monitoring suitable for parking garages or other areas. These approaches may include ROI-based occupancy detection to determine whether particular parking spots are occupied by leveraging image data from image sensors, such as cameras. These approaches may also include multi-sensor object tracking using multiple sensors that are distributed across an area that leverage both image data and spatial information regarding the…
Determining drivable free-space for autonomous vehicles
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941873
In various examples, sensor data may be received that represents a field of view of a sensor of a vehicle located in a physical environment. The sensor data may be applied to a machine learning model that computes both a set of boundary points that correspond to a boundary dividing drivable free-space from non-drivable space in the physical environment and class labels for boundary points of the set of boundary points that correspond to the boundary. Locations within the physical…
Object detection using skewed polygons suitable for parking space detection
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941819
A neural network may be used to determine corner points of a skewed polygon (e.g., as displacement values to anchor box corner points) that accurately delineate a region in an image that defines a parking space. Further, the neural network may output confidence values predicting likelihoods that corner points of an anchor box correspond to an entrance to the parking spot. The confidence values may be used to select a subset of the corner points of the anchor box and/or skewed polygon in…
Streaming a compressed light field
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941752
A remote device utilizes ray tracing to compute a light field for a scene to be rendered, where the light field includes information about light reflected off surfaces within the scene. This light field is then compressed utilizing one or more video compression techniques that implement temporal reuse, such that only differences between the light field for the scene and a light field for a previous scene are compressed. The compressed light field data is then sent to a client device that…
Reflection denoising in ray-tracing applications
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941745
Disclosed approaches may leverage the actual spatial and reflective properties of a virtual environment—such as the size, shape, and orientation of a bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) lobe of a light path and its position relative to a reflection surface, a virtual screen, and a virtual camera—to produce, for a pixel, an anisotropic kernel filter having dimensions and weights that accurately reflect the spatial characteristics of the virtual environment as well…
Generation of sample points in rendering applications using elementary interval stratification
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941743
A system and method for generating a set of samples stratified across two-dimensional elementary intervals of a two-dimensional space is disclosed within the application. A computer-implemented technique for generating the set of samples includes selecting an elementary interval associated with a stratification of the two-dimensional space, initializing at least one data structure that indicates valid regions within the elementary interface based on other samples previously placed within…
Learning robotic tasks using one or more neural networks
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941719
Various embodiments enable a robot, or other autonomous or semi-autonomous device or system, to receive data involving the performance of a task in the physical world. The data can be provided as input to a perception network to infer a set of percepts about the task, which can correspond to relationships between objects observed during the performance. The percepts can be provided as input to a plan generation network, which can infer a set of actions as part of a plan. Each action can…
Hardware accelerated anomaly detection using a min/max collector in a system on a chip
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11940947
In various examples, a VPU and associated components may be optimized to improve VPU performance and throughput. For example, the VPU may include a min/max collector, automatic store predication functionality, a SIMD data path organization that allows for inter-lane sharing, a transposed load/store with stride parameter functionality, a load with permute and zero insertion functionality, hardware, logic, and memory layout functionality to allow for two point and two by two point lookups,…
Flexible one-hot decoding logic for clock controls
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11940493
A circuit for improving control over asynchronous signal crossings during circuit scan tests includes multiple scan registers and a decoder configured to translate a combined output of the scan registers into multiple one-hot controls to the local clock gates of scan registers disposed in multiple different clock domains. Programmable registers are provided to selectively enable and disable the local clock gates of the different clock domains.
Data selection based on uncertainty quantification
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11931909
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques generate poses of an object based on data of the object observed from a first viewpoint and a second viewpoint. The poses can be evaluated to determine a portion of the data usable by an estimator to generate a pose of the object.
CMOS signaling front end for extra short reach links
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11936507
A transceiver circuit includes a receiver front end utilizing a ring oscillator, and a transmitter front end utilizing a pass-gate circuit in a first feedback path across a last-stage driver circuit. The transceiver circuit provides low impedance at low frequency and high impedance at high frequency, and desirable peaking behavior.
Ray tracing using reservoir resampling with spatial shift-mapping
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11935177
Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques to render images with global illumination using efficient ray tracing, light source identification, and reservoir resampling that deploys temporal and spatial reservoirs.
Program flow monitoring and control of an event-triggered system
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11934872
A system is provided for monitoring and controlling program flow in an event-triggered system. A program (e.g., application, algorithm, routine, etc.) may be organized into operational units (e.g., nodes executed by one or more processors), each of which tasked with executing one or more respective events (e.g., tasks) within the larger program. At least some of the events of the larger program may be successively executed in a flow, one after another, using triggers sent directly from…
Techniques for divergent thread group execution scheduling
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11934867
Warp sharding techniques to switch execution between divergent shards on instructions that trigger a long stall, thereby interleaving execution between diverged threads within a warp instead of across warps. The technique may be applied to mitigate pipeline stalls in applications with low warp occupancy and high divergence. Warp data cache locality may also be improved by concentrating memory accesses within a warp rather than spreading them across warps.
Using a vector processor to configure a direct memory access system for feature tracking operations in a system on a chip
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11934829
In various examples, a VPU and associated components may be optimized to improve VPU performance and throughput. For example, the VPU may include a min/max collector, automatic store predication functionality, a SIMD data path organization that allows for inter-lane sharing, a transposed load/store with stride parameter functionality, a load with permute and zero insertion functionality, hardware, logic, and memory layout functionality to allow for two point and two by two point lookups,…
Preventing unauthorized translated access using address signing
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11934567
A host may use address translation to convert virtual addresses to physical addresses for endpoints, which may then submit memory access requests for physical addresses. The host may incorporate the physical address and a signature of the physical address generated using a private key into a translated address field of a response to a translation request. An endpoint may treat the combination as a translated address by storing it in an entry of a translation cache, and accessing the…
Detecting data anomalies on a data interface using machine learning
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11934520
The disclosure provides systems and processes for applying neural networks to detect intrusions and other anomalies in communications exchanged over a data bus between two or more devices in a network. The intrusions may be detected in data being communicated to an embedded system deployed in vehicular or robotic platforms. The disclosed system and process are well suited for incorporation into autonomous control or advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) vehicles including, without…
Hybrid allocation of data lines in a streaming cache memory
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11934311
Various embodiments include a system for managing cache memory in a computing system. The system includes a sectored cache memory that provides a mechanism for sharing sectors in a cache line among multiple cache line allocations. Traditionally, different cache line allocations are assigned to different cache lines in the cache memory. Further, cache line allocations may not use all of the sectors of the cache line, leading to low utilization of the cache memory. With the present…
Intelligent data center including N independent coolable clusters having respective actual power demand (P ac) adjustable at, above or below an ostensible power demand (P os)
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11934242
Provided, in one aspect, is a data center. The data center, in this aspect, includes a data center enclosure, the data center enclosure designed for a given supply of power (Ps). The data center, according to this aspect, further includes N independent coolable clusters of data center racks located within the data center enclosure, wherein N is at least two, and further wherein the N independent coolable clusters each have an ostensible power demand (Pos) approximately equal to Ps/N, and…
