Programming model for resource-constrained scheduling
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12197954
The present technology augments the GPU compute model to provide system-provided data marshalling characteristics of graphics pipelining to increase efficiency and reduce overhead. A simple scheduling model based on scalar counters (e.g., semaphores) abstract the availability of hardware resources. Resource releases can be done programmatically, and a system scheduler only needs to track the states of such counters/semaphores to make work launch decisions. Semantics of the…
Intelligent and integrated liquid-cooled rack for datacenters
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12200913
A cooling system for a datacenter is disclosed. The datacenter cooling system includes a cooling manifold having a first controllable fluid coupler to receive a coolant from a cooling loop external to the rack and one or more second controllable fluid couplers to distribute the coolant to one or more server cooling manifolds within server trays of a rack within the datacenter.
Rack form-factor reservoir for datacenter cooling systems
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12200909
Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a fluid reservoir in a form-factor of at least one rack is provided, the fluid reservoir to store fluid, the fluid to be passed to a cold plate or an immersive-cooled server, and the fluid to be cooled by a secondary cooling loop or an air-cooling system.
Cascaded phase interpolator topology for quadrature-rate multilevel pulse amplitude modulation data sampling
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12199619
A receiver includes a multi-phase clock generator to generate phases of a clock signal and a global phase interpolator (PI) circuit coupled to the multi-phase clock generator and to clock and data recovery (CDR) circuitry. The global PI circuit generates initial-adjusted phases from the phases of the clock signal based on a control signal received from the CDR circuitry. A first local PI receives the initial-adjusted phases of the clock signal and applies a first fixed phase shift to the…
Systems and methods for performing operations in a vehicle using gaze detection
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198450
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…
Early release of resources in ray tracing hardware
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198256
Techniques are disclosed for improving the throughput of ray intersection or visibility queries performed by a ray tracing hardware accelerator. Throughput is improved, for example, by releasing allocated resources before ray visibility query results are reported by the hardware accelerator. The allocated resources are released when the ray visibility query results can be stored in a compressed format outside of the allocated resources. When reporting the ray visibility query results,…
Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198255
Methods and systems are described in some examples for changing the traversal of an acceleration data structure in a highly dynamic query-specific manner, with each query specifying test parameters, a test opcode and a mapping of test results to actions. In an example ray tracing implementation, traversal of a bounding volume hierarchy by a ray is performed with the default behavior of the traversal being changed in accordance with results of a test performed using the test opcode and…
Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive intersections
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198253
A hardware-based traversal coprocessor provides acceleration of tree traversal operations searching for intersections between primitives represented in a tree data structure and a ray. The primitives may include opaque and alpha triangles used in generating a virtual scene. The hardware-based traversal coprocessor is configured to determine primitives intersected by the ray, and return intersection information to a streaming multiprocessor for further processing. The hardware-based…
Reducing false positive ray traversal using point degenerate culling
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198252
Techniques applicable to a ray tracing hardware accelerator for traversing a hierarchical acceleration structure with reduced false positive ray intersections are disclosed. The reduction of false positives may be based upon one or more of selectively performing a secondary higher precision intersection test for a bounding volume, identifying and culling bounding volumes that degenerate to a point, and parametrically clipping rays that exceed certain configured distance thresholds.
Reducing false positive ray traversal in a bounding volume hierarchy
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12198251
Techniques applicable to a ray tracing hardware accelerator for traversing a hierarchical acceleration structure with reduced false positive ray intersections are disclosed. The reduction of false positives may be based upon one or more of selectively performing a secondary higher precision intersection test for a bounding volume, identifying and culling bounding volumes that degenerate to a point, and parametrically clipping rays that exceed certain configured distance thresholds.
Hardware-efficient PAM-3 encoder and decoder
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12197281
A transceiver configured to communicate a burst of data bits and meta-data bits for the data bits includes data channels, auxiliary data channels, and at least one error correction channel. The transceiver includes an encoder that applies 11b7s encoding to a first number of the data bits to generate first PAM-3 symbols on some or all of the communication channels, and that applies 3b2s encoding to a second number of the data bits to generate second PAM-3 symbols on at least some of the…
Hang recovery and error reporting architecture on FPGA-based controller solutions
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12197272
A system includes a device having a controller a plurality of finite state machines (FSMs). The device is to detect that one or more FSMs of the plurality of FSMs fails to satisfy a non-idle duration criterion during an operation, where the one or more FSM that fail to satisfy the non-idle duration criterion are associated with one or more errors. The device is to determine a location of the one or more FSMs that fail to satisfy the non-idle duration criterion. The device is to record…
Robotic control system
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12194632
In at least one embodiment, under the control of a robotic control system, a gripper on a robot is positioned to grasp a 3-dimensional object. In at least one embodiment, the relative position of the object and the gripper is determined, at least in part, by using a camera mounted on the gripper.
Mini-map based position tracking
Granted: January 14, 2025
Patent Number:
12194383
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to determine position information for a gameplay session. In at least one embodiment, the position information is determined by at least matching features extracted from a mini-map to feature extracted from a map and determining a transformation matrix to be applied to a position within the mini-map.
Scene illumination detection for autonomous systems and applications
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12187187
The present disclosure relates to determining a first illumination level corresponding to an area based at least on a first illumination detection obtained using a first illumination detector corresponding to a machine. A second illumination level corresponding to the area may be determined based at least on a second illumination detection obtained using a second illumination detector corresponding to the machine. Based at least on the first illumination level and the second illumination…
Ray-tracing for auto exposure
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190434
In various examples, a virtual light meter may be implemented along with ray tracing techniques in order to determine incident light values—e.g., incoming irradiance, incident radiance, etc.—for adjusting auto exposure values of rendered frames. For example, one or more rays may be used to sample incident light over a sampling pattern—such as a hemispherical sampling pattern—for any position in a virtual game environment. As a result, the incident light values may be sampled near…
Dynamic skew realignment over multiple transmission lanes in integrated computing platforms
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12189558
In various examples, methods may include receiving first data transmitted from a second component and second data transmitted from the second component during a first time period. The first data may be transmitted via a first data lane and the second data may be transmitted via a second data lane. The method may include receiving de-skew symbols at an interval from the second component via the first data lane and via the second data lane during the first time period. The method may…
Interactive sensor calibration for autonomous vehicles
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12189065
A method includes obtaining first user input identifying at least one LIDAR point in a set of LIDAR points associated with an object in an image, and obtaining second user input identifying the object in the image. The method may also include generating a constraint on a relationship between a LIDAR sensor used to capture the set of LIDAR points and a camera used to capture the image. The method may additionally include reducing a cost associated with the LIDAR point being inconsistent…
Sensor data based map creation and localization for autonomous systems and applications
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12189018
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to generating RADAR (RAdio Detection And Ranging) point clouds based on RADAR data obtained from one or more RADAR sensors disposed on one or more ego-machines. In these or other embodiments, the RADAR point clouds may be communicated to a distributed map system that is configured to generate map data based on the RADAR point clouds. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, certain compression operations may be performed on…
Keyframe-based compression for world model representation in autonomous systems and applications
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12188779
In various examples, a method includes computing a current keyframe, the current keyframe being representative of an area around an autonomous vehicle at a current time based on map data. The method includes transforming a preceding keyframe to a coordinate frame of the autonomous vehicle at a first time prior to completing computation of the current keyframe to generate a first world model frame. The method includes transforming the preceding keyframe to the coordinate frame of the…
