Data selection based on uncertainty quantification
Granted: March 26, 2024
Patent Number:
11941899
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques generate poses of an object based on image data of the object obtained from a first viewpoint of the object and a second viewpoint of the object. The poses can be evaluated to determine a portion of the image data usable by an estimator to generate a pose of the object.
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…
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…
Video synthesis using one or more neural networks
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11934959
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are presented to synthesize consistent images or video. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are used to generate one or more second images based, at least in part, on one or more point cloud representations of one or more first images.
Cable identification and guided connections
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11937028
Configurations for rack connection systems are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, installation locations for one or more cables are determined and one or more indicators corresponding to installation locations are activated.
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.
Digital delay line calibration with duty cycle correction for high bandwidth memory interface
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11936379
Embodiments include a memory device with an improved calibration circuit. Memory device input/output pins include delay lines for adjusting the delay in each memory input/output signal path. The delay adjustment circuitry includes digital delay lines for adjusting this delay. Further, each digital delay line is calibrated via a digital delay line locked loop which enables adjustment of the delay through the digital delay line in fractions of a unit interval across variations due to…
Constrained BSDF sampling
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11935194
Systems and methods are provided to perform constrained BSDF sampling in relation to various algorithms, and specifically in relation to ray tracing algorithms. In some embodiments, a method is provided to generate samples by: determining a spherical polygon on a unit hemisphere; determining, on a unit circle, a projected area corresponding to the spherical polygon on the unit hemisphere; determining a parameterization of the projected area of the spherical polygon on the unit circle;…
Fully-fused neural network execution
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11935179
A fully-connected neural network may be configured for execution by a processor as a fully-fused neural network by limiting slow global memory accesses to reading and writing inputs to and outputs from the fully-connected neural network. The computational cost of fully-connected neural networks scale quadratically with its width, whereas its memory traffic scales linearly. Modern graphics processing units typically have much greater computational throughput compared with memory…
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.
Neural network based facial analysis using facial landmarks and associated confidence values
Granted: March 19, 2024
Patent Number:
11934955
Systems and methods for more accurate and robust determination of subject characteristics from an image of the subject. One or more machine learning models receive as input an image of a subject, and output both facial landmarks and associated confidence values. Confidence values represent the degrees to which portions of the subject's face corresponding to those landmarks are occluded, i.e., the amount of uncertainty in the position of each landmark location. These landmark points and…
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…
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.
Using map-based constraints for determining vehicle state
Granted: March 12, 2024
Patent Number:
11927449
According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may comprise receiving an approximate geographic location of a vehicle, accessing a map of a region within which the approximate geographic location of the vehicle is located, identifying a first region on the map within a first threshold distance of the approximate geographic location of the vehicle, identifying a second region on the map associated with one or more roads on the map, determining a search space on the map within which…
