Nvidia Patent Grants

Edge-connected semiconductor systems

Granted: October 17, 2023
Patent Number: 11791319
Edge-connected semiconductor systems are described along with methods of making and using the same. First and second integrated circuit packages are obtained, each including a substrate assembly having top and bottom sides and an edge that extends between the top and the bottom sides. Edge contacts are disposed on the edges of the substrate assemblies. A ganged assembly is formed by establishing conductive paths between the edge contacts of the substrate assemblies. The ganged assembly…

Parallel precoding for downlink transmission

Granted: October 17, 2023
Patent Number: 11791871
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to determine precoding weights for fifth-generation (5G) new radio (NR) downlink transmission in parallel. In at least one embodiment, a parallel processor includes one or more circuits to perform precoding for a 5G downlink signal using two or more processing threads in parallel.

Parity check decoding

Granted: October 17, 2023
Patent Number: 11791938
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to decode encoded data. In at least one embodiment, parts of information for decoding the encoded data is provided to a plurality of processors, and parts of data decoded by the plurality of processors is combined.

Method and system for low latency high frame rate streaming

Granted: October 17, 2023
Patent Number: 11792451
Embodiments of the present invention provide a low-latency approach for local or remote application streaming that reaches high FPS targets without overloading the available streaming bandwidth, for example, by limiting the bit rate to the same value that is used by traditional 60 FPS streaming solutions. A client device and server device cooperate to actively monitor and control a video stream to maintain an acceptable balance between latency and video quality by adjusting the frequency…

Systems and methods for performing operations in a vehicle using gaze detection

Granted: October 17, 2023
Patent Number: 11790669
In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed herein for a vehicle command operation system that may use technology across multiple modalities to cause vehicular operations to be performed in response to determining a focal point based on a gaze of an occupant. The system may utilize sensors to receive first data indicative of an eye gaze of an occupant of the vehicle. The system may utilize sensors to receive second data indicative of other data from the occupant. The system…

Link training through handshake on high-speed interconnect

Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number: 11784890
A system includes a first device and a second device coupled to a link including two or more data paths and a first portion and a second portion. The first device is to transmit a number of bits corresponding to a message before training the link on the first portion of the link, where the number of bits is equal to a number of the two or more data paths, and where each data path transmits one bit of the number of bits. The second device is to receive the message before training the…

System-latency-aware display device

Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number: 11784906
A display device for measuring the end-to-end latency of a computing system. The computing system includes an input device, a computing device, and the display device. The display device is directly connected with the input device and receives input data packets generated by the input device in response to received user input events. The display device passes the input packets to the computing device for graphics processing. The display device measures the end-to-end latency comprising…

Detection and mitigation of unstable cells in unclonable cell array

Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number: 11784835
A circuit includes a set of multiple bit generating cells. One or more adjustable characterization circuits are coupled to inputs to the bit generating cells to affect the outputs of the bit generating cells. Based on the effect of the characterization circuit(s) on the outputs of the bit generating cells, a subset less than all of the bit generating cells is selected.

View synthesis using attribute correspondences and geometric relationship constraints

Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number: 11783532
A target image corresponding to a novel view may be synthesized from two source images, corresponding source camera poses, and pixel attribute correspondences between the two source images. A particular object in the target image need only be visible in one of the two source images for successful synthesis. Each pixel in the target image is defined according to an identified pixel in one of the two source images. The identified source pixel provides attributes such as color, texture, and…

View generation using one or more neural networks

Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number: 11783510
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are presented to generate image or video content representing at least one point of view. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks are used to generate one or more images of one or more objects from a first point of view based at least in part upon one or more images of the one or more objects from a second point of view.

History clamping for denoising dynamic ray-traced scenes using temporal accumulation

Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number: 11783455
Approaches presented herein can reduce temporal lag that may be introduced in a generated image sequence that utilizes temporal accumulation for denoising in dynamic scenes. A fast historical frame can be generated along with a full historical frame generated for a denoising process, with the fast historical frame being accumulated using an exponential moving average with a significantly higher blend weight. This fast history frame can be used to determine a clamping window that can be…

Automatic generation of ground truth data for training or retraining machine learning models

Granted: October 10, 2023
Patent Number: 11783230
In various examples, object detections of a machine learning model are leveraged to automatically generate new ground truth data for images captured at different perspectives. The machine learning model may generate a prediction of a detected object at the different perspective, and an object tracking algorithm may be used to track the object through other images in a sequence of images where the machine learning model may not have detected the object. New ground truth data may be…

Using high definition maps for generating synthetic sensor data for autonomous vehicles

Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number: 11774250
According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may comprise accessing high definition (HD) map data of a region, presenting, via a user interface, information describing the HD map data, receiving instructions, via the user interface, for modifying the HD map data by adding one or more synthetic objects to locations in the HD map data, modifying the HD map data based on the received instructions, and generating a synthetic track in the modified HD map data comprising, for each of…

Remote operation of a vehicle using virtual representations of a vehicle state

Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number: 11774963
In various examples, at least partial control of a vehicle may be transferred to a control system remote from the vehicle. Sensor data may be received from a sensor(s) of the vehicle and the sensor data may be encoded to generate encoded sensor data. The encoded sensor data may be transmitted to the control system for display on a virtual reality headset of the control system. Control data may be received by the vehicle and from the control system that may be representative of a control…

High definition map and route storage management system for autonomous vehicles

Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number: 11775570
High definition maps for autonomous vehicles are very high resolution and detailed, and hence require storage of a great deal of data. A vehicle computing system provides multi-layered caching makes this data usable in a system that requires very low latency on every operation. The system determines which routes are most likely to be driven in the near future by the car, and ensures that the route is cached on the vehicle before beginning the route. The system provides efficient formats…

Generative adversarial neural network assisted video reconstruction

Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number: 11775829
A latent code defined in an input space is processed by the mapping neural network to produce an intermediate latent code defined in an intermediate latent space. The intermediate latent code may be used as appearance vector that is processed by the synthesis neural network to generate an image. The appearance vector is a compressed encoding of data, such as video frames including a person's face, audio, and other data. Captured images may be converted into appearance vectors at a local…

Techniques for improving the color accuracy of light-emitting diodes in backlit liquid-crystal displays

Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number: 11776490
A display device includes an array of LEDs, an array of LCD pixels, and a display controller that compensates for one or more sources of color variation in light produced by the LEDs having multiple color components that change differently as a function of distance. The display controller can determine a variation of a received color value from a color of light emitted by a given LED at a given LCD pixel based on the distance between the given LCD pixel and the given LED, and determine…

On-die techniques for asynchnorously comparing voltages

Granted: October 3, 2023
Patent Number: 11777483
In various embodiments, a comparison circuit compares voltages within an integrated circuit. The comparison circuit includes a comparison capacitor, an inverter, and multiple switches. A first terminal of the comparison capacitor is coupled to both a first terminal of a first switch and a first terminal of a second switch. A second terminal of the comparison capacitor is coupled to both a first terminal of a third switch and an input of the inverter. An output of the inverter is coupled…

Unsupervised alignment for text to speech synthesis using neural networks

Granted: September 26, 2023
Patent Number: 11769481
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.

Conversational AI platforms with closed domain and open domain dialog integration

Granted: September 26, 2023
Patent Number: 11769495
In various examples, systems and methods of the present disclosure combine open and closed dialog systems into an intelligent dialog management system. A text query may be processed by a natural language understanding model trained to associate the text query with a domain tag, intent classification, and/or input slots. Using the domain tag, the natural language understanding model may identify information in the text query corresponding to input slots needed for answering the text…