Staged cooling for secondary coolant in datacenter cooling systems
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11910577
Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a hybrid coolant distribution unit (HCDU) provides first stage cooling of secondary coolant returning from at least one cold plate in a liquid to air heat exchanger (L2AHE) and provides second stage cooling in a liquid to liquid heat exchanger (L2LHE) for secondary coolant exiting an L2AHE using varying flow rates of a primary coolant based in part on a residual temperature that is determined for such…
Heat recovery for datacenter cooling systems
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11910576
Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, an absorption chiller includes a generator vessel to enable removal of heat from fluid returned from at least one computing component of the datacenter.
Method and apparatus for execution of applications in a cloud system
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11909820
A computer implemented method of executing applications in a cloud server system is presented. The method comprises receiving a file identifier from a client device. The method also comprises receiving a file associated with the file identifier from a first server. Further, the method comprises accessing an application associated with the file from memory of the cloud server. Also, the method comprises executing by the cloud server the application using the file received from the first…
Analysis of point cloud data using depth maps
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11908203
LiDAR (light detection and ranging) and RADAR (radio detection and ranging) systems are commonly used to generate point cloud data for 3D space around vehicles, for such functions as localization, mapping, and tracking. Improved techniques for processing the point cloud data that has been collected are provided. The improved techniques include mapping one or more point cloud data points into a depth map, the one or more point cloud data points being generated using one or more sensors;…
Weighted normalized automatic white balancing
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11908104
In order to more accurately white balance an image, weightings can be determined for pixels of an image when computing an illuminant color value of the image and/or a scene. The weightings can be based at least in part on the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of the pixels. The SNR may be actual SNR or SNR estimated from brightness levels of the pixels. SNR weighting (e.g., SNR adjustment) may reduce the effect of pixels with high noise on the computed illuminant color value. For example, one…
Accelerated processing via a physically based rendering engine
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11908064
One embodiment of a computer-implemented method for processing ray tracing operations in parallel includes receiving a plurality of rays and a corresponding set of material shading instructions for each ray included in the plurality of rays for processing, wherein each ray represents a path from a light source to at least one point within a three-dimensional (3D) environment, and each corresponding set of material shading instructions is based at least in part on one or more material…
Learning and propagating visual attributes
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11907846
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing spatial propagation. The technique includes generating a first directed acyclic graph (DAG) by connecting spatially adjacent points included in a set of unstructured points via directed edges along a first direction. The technique also includes applying a first set of neural network layers to one or more images associated with the set of unstructured points to generate (i) a set of features for the set of…
Techniques for efficiently transferring data to a processor
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11907717
A technique for block data transfer is disclosed that reduces data transfer and memory access overheads and significantly reduces multiprocessor activity and energy consumption. Threads executing on a multiprocessor needing data stored in global memory can request and store the needed data in on-chip shared memory, which can be accessed by the threads multiple times. The data can be loaded from global memory and stored in shared memory using an instruction which directs the data into the…
Object detection and classification using LiDAR range images for autonomous machine applications
Granted: February 20, 2024
Patent Number:
11906660
In various examples, a deep neural network (DNN) may be used to detect and classify animate objects and/or parts of an environment. The DNN may be trained using camera-to-LiDAR cross injection to generate reliable ground truth data for LiDAR range images. For example, annotations generated in the image domain may be propagated to the LiDAR domain to increase the accuracy of the ground truth data in the LiDAR domain—e.g., without requiring manual annotation in the LiDAR domain. Once…
Video prediction using one or more neural networks
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11902705
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to enhance video are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are used to create, from a first video, a second video having one or more additional video frames.
Surface profile estimation and bump detection for autonomous machine
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11900629
In various examples, surface profile estimation and bump detection may be performed based on a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud. The 3D point cloud may be filtered in view of a portion of an environment including drivable free-space, and within a threshold height to factor out other objects or obstacles other than a driving surface and protuberances thereon. The 3D point cloud may be analyzed—e.g., using a sliding window of bounding shapes along a longitudinal or other heading…
Automatic labeling and segmentation using machine learning models
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11899749
In various examples, training methods as described to generate a trained neural network that is robust to various environmental features. In an embodiment, training includes modifying images of a dataset and generating boundary boxes and/or other segmentation information for the modified images which is used to train a neural network.
Frame alignment recovery for a high-speed signaling interconnect
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11899609
A system includes a first device and a second device coupled to a link having one or more lanes. The first device is to transmit two or more frames to synchronize the one or more data lanes, where each frame comprises a quantity of bits. The second device is to receive a first set of bits from each data lane corresponding to the quantity of bits in each frame of the two or more frames. The second device is to determine that the first set of bits received from a data lane of the one or…
Intersection detection and classification in autonomous machine applications
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11897471
In various examples, live perception from sensors of a vehicle may be leveraged to detect and classify intersections in an environment of a vehicle in real-time or near real-time. For example, a deep neural network (DNN) may be trained to compute various outputs—such as bounding box coordinates for intersections, intersection coverage maps corresponding to the bounding boxes, intersection attributes, distances to intersections, and/or distance coverage maps associated with the…
Video prediction using one or more neural networks
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11902705
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to enhance video are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are used to create, from a first video, a second video having one or more additional video frames.
Surface profile estimation and bump detection for autonomous machine
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11900629
In various examples, surface profile estimation and bump detection may be performed based on a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud. The 3D point cloud may be filtered in view of a portion of an environment including drivable free-space, and within a threshold height to factor out other objects or obstacles other than a driving surface and protuberances thereon. The 3D point cloud may be analyzed—e.g., using a sliding window of bounding shapes along a longitudinal or other heading…
Automatic labeling and segmentation using machine learning models
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11899749
In various examples, training methods as described to generate a trained neural network that is robust to various environmental features. In an embodiment, training includes modifying images of a dataset and generating boundary boxes and/or other segmentation information for the modified images which is used to train a neural network.
Frame alignment recovery for a high-speed signaling interconnect
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11899609
A system includes a first device and a second device coupled to a link having one or more lanes. The first device is to transmit two or more frames to synchronize the one or more data lanes, where each frame comprises a quantity of bits. The second device is to receive a first set of bits from each data lane corresponding to the quantity of bits in each frame of the two or more frames. The second device is to determine that the first set of bits received from a data lane of the one or…
Intersection detection and classification in autonomous machine applications
Granted: February 13, 2024
Patent Number:
11897471
In various examples, live perception from sensors of a vehicle may be leveraged to detect and classify intersections in an environment of a vehicle in real-time or near real-time. For example, a deep neural network (DNN) may be trained to compute various outputs—such as bounding box coordinates for intersections, intersection coverage maps corresponding to the bounding boxes, intersection attributes, distances to intersections, and/or distance coverage maps associated with the…
Disaggregated hypervisor on multiple devices
Granted: February 6, 2024
Patent Number:
11892946
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to allocate portions of a virtual address space to allow virtual machines to share data. In at least one embodiment, at least a portion of a virtual memory address space is made accessible to multiple virtual machines and is mapped to memory addresses of different physical devices using, at least in part, a cache-coherent protocol.
