Start-up performance improvement for remote video gaming
Granted: October 6, 2020
Patent Number:
10798457
A gaming system includes a network server and a gaming manager communicatively coupled to the network server. The gaming manager having a video control unit that starts a video game running remotely with a static video portion and a user interactive video portion and a video receiving unit, coupled to the video control unit, that receives the static video portion for local display while the user interactive video portion is being initialized remotely for subsequent local game play. The…
Compute task state encapsulation
Granted: October 6, 2020
Patent Number:
10795722
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for encapsulating compute task state that enables out-of-order scheduling and execution of the compute tasks. The scheduling circuitry organizes the compute tasks into groups based on priority levels. The compute tasks may then be selected for execution using different scheduling schemes. Each group is maintained as a linked list of pointers to compute tasks that are encoded as task metadata (TMD) stored in memory. A TMD…
System, method, and computer program product for simultaneously determining settings for a plurality of parameter variations
Granted: October 6, 2020
Patent Number:
10795691
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for simultaneously determining settings for a plurality of parameter variations. In use, a plurality of parameter variations associated with a device is identified. Additionally, settings for each of the plurality of parameter variations are determined simultaneously.
Electronically actuated retaining latch for AC-DC adapter removable plug assembly
Granted: September 29, 2020
Patent Number:
10790628
A power adapter has a solenoid actuated retaining latch controlled by an electronic circuit that detects the presence or absence of AC mains voltage. When the assembled AC-DC adapter and plug assembly are removed from the wall, the latch detects removal and unlocks the plug assembly for easy removal without undue force required by the user. The circuit is designed for minimal power consumption, and the solenoid only consumes power when it is engaging or disengaging the latch.
Superpixel sampling networks
Granted: September 29, 2020
Patent Number:
10789678
A superpixel sampling network utilizes a neural network coupled to a differentiable simple linear iterative clustering component to determine pixel-superpixel associations from a set of pixel features output by the neural network. The superpixel sampling network computes updated superpixel centers and final pixel-superpixel associations over a number of iterations.
Techniques for efficiently synchronizing data transmissions on a network
Granted: September 29, 2020
Patent Number:
10789194
Systems and techniques for synchronizing transactions between processing devices on an interconnection network are provided. Upon receiving a stream of posted transactions followed by a flush transaction from a source processing device connected to the interconnection network, the flush transaction is trapped before it enters the interconnecting network. Subsequently, based on monitoring for responses received from a destination processing device for transactions corresponding to the…
Memory management systems and methods using a management communication bus
Granted: September 22, 2020
Patent Number:
10783950
The present invention facilitates efficient and effective utilization of storage management features. In one embodiment, a system comprises: a storage component, a memory controller, and a communication link. The storage component stores information. The memory controller controls the storage component. The communication link communicatively couples the storage component and the memory controller. In one embodiment, the communication link communicates storage system management…
Equivariant landmark transformation for landmark localization
Granted: September 22, 2020
Patent Number:
10783394
A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed to generate coordinates of landmarks within images. The landmark locations may be identified on an image of a human face and used for emotion recognition, face identity verification, eye gaze tracking, pose estimation, etc. A transform is applied to input image data to produce transformed input image data. The transform is also applied to predicted coordinates for landmarks of the input image data to produce transformed…
Semi-supervised learning for landmark localization
Granted: September 22, 2020
Patent Number:
10783393
A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for sequential multi-tasking to generate coordinates of landmarks within images. The landmark locations may be identified on an image of a human face and used for emotion recognition, face identity verification, eye gaze tracking, pose estimation, etc. A neural network model processes input image data to generate pixel-level likelihood estimates for landmarks in the input image data and a soft-argmax function computes predicted…
Light fields as better backgrounds in rendering
Granted: September 15, 2020
Patent Number:
10776995
The introduced method and system use a 4-dimensional (4D) light field as a background of a scene, instead of 2D background image. Realizing computing a light field takes tremendous amounts of processing power, data storage and time (even with the currently available hardware), the introduced method and system compute and store the light field before rendering a scene. To reduce the time storing and accessing the light field during the rendering process, the introduced method and system…
Reflection denoising in ray-tracing applications
Granted: September 15, 2020
Patent Number:
10776985
Disclosed approaches may leverage the actual spatial and reflective properties of a virtual environment—such as the size, shape, and orientation of a bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) lobe of a light path and its position relative to a reflection surface, a virtual screen, and a virtual camera—to produce, for a pixel, an anisotropic kernel filter having dimensions and weights that accurately reflect the spatial characteristics of the virtual environment as well…
Analysis of point cloud data using depth and texture maps
Granted: September 15, 2020
Patent Number:
10776983
Various types of systems or technologies can be used to collect data in a 3D space. For example, 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. This disclosure provides improvements for processing the point cloud data that has been collected. The processing improvements include analyzing point cloud data using…
Multi-frame video interpolation using optical flow
Granted: September 15, 2020
Patent Number:
10776688
Video interpolation is used to predict one or more intermediate frames at timesteps defined between two consecutive frames. A first neural network model approximates optical flow data defining motion between the two consecutive frames. A second neural network model refines the optical flow data and predicts visibility maps for each timestep. The two consecutive frames are warped according to the refined optical flow data for each timestep to produce pairs of warped frames for each…
Modified effective mass for parallel rigid body simulation
Granted: September 15, 2020
Patent Number:
10776532
A system and method for solving linear complementarity problems for rigid body simulation is disclosed. The method includes determining a plurality of modified effective masses for a plurality of contacts between a plurality of bodies, wherein each modified effective mass term is based on a corresponding number of contacts. A plurality of relative velocities is determined based on the plurality of body velocities determined from a last iteration. A plurality of impulse corrections is…
Analysis of point cloud data using polar depth maps and planarization techniques
Granted: September 8, 2020
Patent Number:
10769840
Various types of systems or technologies can be used to collect data in a 3D space. For example, 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. This disclosure provides improvements for processing the point cloud data that has been collected. The processing improvements include using a three dimensional polar depth…
Camera blockage detection for autonomous driving systems
Granted: September 8, 2020
Patent Number:
10769454
System and methods for detecting blockages in images are described. A method may include receiving a plurality of images captured by a camera installed on a vehicle. The method may include identifying one or more candidate blocked regions in the plurality of images. Each of the candidate blocked regions may contain image data caused by blockages in the camera's field-of-view. The method may further include assigning blockage scores to the one or more candidate blocked regions based on…
Distributed address translation in a multi-node interconnect fabric
Granted: September 8, 2020
Patent Number:
10769076
Multiprocessor clusters in a virtualized environment conventionally fail to provide memory access security, which is frequently a requirement for efficient utilization in multi-client settings. Without adequate access security, a malicious process may access what might be confidential data that belongs to a different client sharing the multiprocessor cluster. Furthermore, an inadvertent programming error in the code for one client process may accidentally corrupt data that belongs to the…
Method and apparatus to optimize system battery-life for static and semi-static image viewing usage models
Granted: September 1, 2020
Patent Number:
10761582
A computer system comprising: a graphics processor, a display controller comprising a display-local frame buffer, a display device, and a memory. The memory stores instructions, that when executed by the computer system, perform a method of entering a power management state. The method comprises detecting that the computer system is idle and optional proximity detector for determining if a user is present in front of the system. With the computer system idle, and the user in proximity of…
Unified memory systems and methods
Granted: September 1, 2020
Patent Number:
10762593
The present invention facilitates efficient and effective utilization of unified virtual addresses across multiple components. In one exemplary implementation, an address allocation process comprises: establishing space for managed pointers across a plurality of memories, including allocating one of the managed pointers with a first portion of memory associated with a first one of a plurality of processors; and performing a process of automatically managing accesses to the managed…
Learning affinity via a spatial propagation neural network
Granted: September 1, 2020
Patent Number:
10762425
A spatial linear propagation network (SLPN) system learns the affinity matrix for vision tasks. An affinity matrix is a generic matrix that defines the similarity of two points in space. The SLPN system is trained for a particular computer vision task and refines an input map (i.e., affinity matrix) that indicates pixels the share a particular property (e.g., color, object, texture, shape, etc.). Inputs to the SLPN system are input data (e.g., pixel values for an image) and the input map…