Secure reconfiguration of hardware device operating features
Granted: January 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11880466
A game cloud server, a method of operating a cloud server, and a method of playing a game on a game cloud server are disclosed. In one example, the game cloud server includes: (1) one or more processing units that virtually supports different gaming applications according to a gaming operating mode, and (2) an operating mode selector that is coupled to the one or more processing units and has (2A) a virtual fusing register that selects the gaming operating mode for executing the…
Error rate interrupts in hardware for high-speed signaling interconnect
Granted: January 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11880265
A receiver device includes detection logic, an error counter, and an interrupt logic. The detection logic is to receive a first set of data frames and detect one or more frame errors in the first set of data frames. The error counter is to store a number of the one or more frame errors detected in the first set of data frames. The interrupt logic can be coupled to the error counter. The interrupt logic is to specify a period and compare the number of the one or more frame errors with a…
Automatic method for power management tuning in computing systems
Granted: January 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11880261
A system, method, and apparatus of power management for computing systems are included herein that optimize individual frequencies of components of the computing systems using machine learning. The computing systems can be tightly integrated systems that consider an overall operating budget that is shared between the components of the computing system while adjusting the frequencies of the individual components. An example of an automated method of power management includes: (1)…
Path planning and control to account for position uncertainty for autonomous machine applications
Granted: January 23, 2024
Patent Number:
11878682
In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed for generating and/or analyzing candidate paths for a multi-body vehicle—e.g., a tractor trailer truck—based on obstacle avoidance considerations and using an uncertainty representation for the vehicle. The uncertainty representation may correspond to a trailer portion of the multi-body vehicle to account for the variations in rotation of the trailer with respect to the tractor. As such, the uncertainty representation may be…
Shared structure for a logic analyzer and programmable state machine
Granted: January 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11875057
A processing unit can include a performance monitor for monitoring the performance of the processing unit and associated sub-units. The performance monitor includes a logic analyzer, and implements a state machine via state machine data entries stored in a memory associated with the performance monitor. A state machine data entry includes output signals associated with state transitions. The output signals include a next state and a trigger to the logic analyzer. The performance monitor…
Header-based packet filtering and inferencing to identify malicious network traffic using neural networks
Granted: January 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11876782
In various examples, a first network interface duplicates received network traffic and forwards a first set of network traffic data to a central processing unit (CPU) and a second set of identical network traffic to one or more parallel processing units (PPUs). In an embodiment, the one or more PPUs analyze the second set of network traffic to identify whether the second set of network traffic is malicious. First, the one or more PPUs filter and classify the second set of network traffic…
Extensible network traffic engineering platform for increasing network resiliency in cloud applications
Granted: January 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11876697
In various examples, an extensible network traffic engineering platform monitors network traffic and application performance to dynamically update network ingress and egress communication paths for increasing performance of the application—such as a cloud gaming application, a cloud virtual reality (VR) application, and/or another high performance application types. Pluggable, distributed, application-centric network monitors, policy engines, and network configurators are implemented…
Dynamic image smoothing based on network conditions
Granted: January 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11875478
Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamically smoothing images based on network conditions to adjust a bitrate needed to transmit the images. Content in the images is smoothed to reduce the quantity of bits needed to encode each image. Filtering the images modifies regions including content having a high frequency of pixel variation, reducing the frequency, so the pixel colors in the region appear “smoothed” or homogeneous. In other words, a region of an image showing a grassy…
Real-time rendering with implicit shapes
Granted: January 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11875449
Systems and methods are described for rendering complex surfaces or geometry. In at least one embodiment, neural signed distance functions (SDFs) can be used that efficiently capture multiple levels of detail (LODs), and that can be used to reconstruct multi-dimensional geometry or surfaces with high image quality. An example architecture can represent complex shapes in a compressed format with high visual fidelity, and can generalize across different geometries from a single learned…
Accelerated processing via a physically based rendering engine
Granted: January 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11875444
One embodiment of a computer-implemented method for decompressing a compressed texture block includes identifying a first texel included in a plurality of texels, wherein the plurality of texels forms at least a portion of a compressed texture block; determining a first location within the compressed texel block that corresponds to the first texel; and extracting the first texel from the first location without decompressing any of the other texels included in the plurality of texels.
Techniques for recovering from errors when executing software applications on parallel processors
Granted: January 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11874742
In various embodiments, a software program uses hardware features of a parallel processor to checkpoint a context associated with an execution of a software application on the parallel processor. The software program uses a preemption feature of the parallel processor to cause the parallel processor to stop executing instructions in accordance with the context. The software program then causes the parallel processor to collect state data associated with the context. After generating a…
Systems and methods for computer-assisted shuttles, buses, robo-taxis, ride-sharing and on-demand vehicles with situational awareness
Granted: January 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11874663
A system and method for an on-demand shuttle, bus, or taxi service able to operate on private and public roads provides situational awareness and confidence displays. The shuttle may include ISO 26262 Level 4 or Level 5 functionality and can vary the route dynamically on-demand, and/or follow a predefined route or virtual rail. The shuttle is able to stop at any predetermined station along the route. The system allows passengers to request rides and interact with the system via a variety…
Sharing sensor data between multiple controllers to support vehicle operations
Granted: January 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11874662
This disclosure presents an assisted driving vehicle system, including autonomous, semi-autonomous, and technology assisted vehicles, that can share sensor data among two or more controllers. A sensor can have one communication channel to a controller, thereby saving cabling and circuitry costs. The data from the sensor can be sent from one controller to another controller to enable redundancy and backup in case of a system failure. Sensor data from more than one sensor can be aggregated…
Parallel processing of video frames during video encoding
Granted: January 9, 2024
Patent Number:
11871018
Disclosed are techniques for compressing data of an image. Intermediate pixels may be determined. Each location of the image may be associated with a block of a plurality of blocks of a first size and a block of a plurality of blocks of a second size. For each block of the first size and of the second size, a first cost for a first mode and a second cost for a second mode may be determined in parallel using the intermediate pixels. A final mode and a final block size may be selected for…
Efficient lossless compression of captured raw image information systems and methods
Granted: January 9, 2024
Patent Number:
11871011
Systems and methods for efficient lossless compression of captured raw image information are presented. A method can comprise: receiving raw image data from an image capture device, segregating the pixel data into a base layer portion and an enhanced layer portion, reconfiguring the base layer portion expressed in the first color space values from a raw capture format into a pseudo second color space compression mechanism compatible format, and compressing the reconfigured base layer…
Unsupervised alignment for text to speech synthesis using neural networks
Granted: January 9, 2024
Patent Number:
11869483
Generation of synthetic speech from an input text sequence may be difficult when durations of individual phonemes forming the input text sequence are unknown. A predominantly parallel process may model speech rhythm as a separate generative distribution such that phoneme duration may be sampled at inference. Additional information such as pitch or energy may also be sampled to provide improved diversity for synthetic speech generation.
Computer-based techniques for learning compositional representations of 3D point clouds
Granted: January 9, 2024
Patent Number:
11869149
In various embodiments, an unsupervised training application executes a neural network on a first point cloud to generate keys and values. The unsupervised training application generates output vectors based on a first query set, the keys, and the values and then computes spatial features based on the output vectors. The unsupervised training application computes quantized context features based on the output vectors and a first set of codes representing a first set of 3D geometry…
Techniques for isolating interfaces while testing semiconductor devices
Granted: January 9, 2024
Patent Number:
11867744
Techniques for isolating interfaces while testing a semiconductor device include a semiconductor device having a link interface that couples the semiconductor device to a high-speed data transfer link, a clock control unit that transmits one or more clock signals to the link interface; and a protection module. The protection module asserts a clock stop request to the clock control unit and, in response to receiving a clock stop acknowledgement from the clock control unit, asserts a clamp…
Using measure of constrainedness in high definition maps for localization of vehicles
Granted: January 9, 2024
Patent Number:
11867515
According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may comprise accessing a set of vehicle poses of one or more vehicles; for each of the set of vehicle poses, accessing a high definition (HD) map of a geographical region surrounding the vehicle pose, with the HD map comprising a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the geographical region, determining a measure of constrainedness for the vehicle pose, with the measure of constrainedness representing a confidence for performing…
Packet processing acceleration using parallel processing
Granted: January 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11861758
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to process packet data in parallel. In at least one embodiment, packet data is processed by (e.g., one or more algorithms expressed in CUDA code executing on) a Graphics Processing Unit (“GPU”).
