公开(公告)号：US20200334896A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-22

申请号：US16865587

申请日：2020-05-04

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Prasoonkumar Surti ,  Karthik Vaidyanathan ,  Atsuo Kuwahara ,  Hugues Labbe ,  Sameer Kp ,  Jonathan Kennedy ,  Abhishek R. Appu ,  Jeffery S. Boles ,  Balaji Vembu ,  Michael Apodaca ,  Slawomir Grajewski ,  Gabor Liktor ,  David M. Cimini ,  Andrew T. Lauritzen ,  Travis T. Schluessler ,  Murali Ramadoss ,  Abhishek Venkatesh ,  Joydeep Ray ,  Kai Xiao ,  Ankur N. Shah ,  Altug Koker

IPC: G06T15/40 ,  G06T1/20 ,  G06T15/30 ,  G06T15/00 ,  G06T11/40 ,  G06T17/20

Abstract: The systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to adaptively process and aggressively cull geometry data. Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for processing, by a positional only shading pipeline (POSH), geometry data including surface triangles for a digital representation of a scene. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to identify surface triangles in one or more exclusion zones and non-exclusion zones, and cull surface triangles surface triangles in one or more exclusion zones.

公开(公告)号：US10748238B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-18

申请号：US16279270

申请日：2019-02-19

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Saurabh Sharma ,  Abhishek Venkatesh ,  Travis T. Schluessler ,  Prasoonkumar Surti ,  Altug Koker ,  Aravindh V. Anantaraman ,  Pattabhiraman P. K. ,  Abhishek R. Appu ,  Joydeep Ray ,  Kamal Sinha ,  Vasanth Ranganathan ,  Bhushan M. Borole ,  Wenyin Fu ,  Eric J. Hoekstra ,  Linda L. Hurd

IPC: G06T1/20 ,  G06T1/60 ,  G06T15/00

Abstract: A control surface tracks an individual cacheline in the original surface for frequent data values. If so, control surface bits are set. When reading a cacheline from memory, first the control surface bits are read. If they happen to be set, then the original memory read is skipped altogether and instead the bits from the control surface provide the value for the entire cacheline.

公开(公告)号：US10726605B2

公开(公告)日：2020-07-28

申请号：US15705530

申请日：2017-09-15

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Travis T. Schluessler ,  Aleksander Neyman ,  Guei-Yuan Lueh ,  Thomas F. Raoux ,  Bartosz Spitzbarth

IPC: G06T15/00 ,  G06F9/54 ,  G06T15/80 ,  G09G5/36

Abstract: Various embodiments enable low frequency calculation of derived uniform values. A compiler can identify one or more portions of a shader that calculate a derived value based on an input value. For example, this portion may include instructions that use constant values, or the results of prior functions that used constant values. The constant values may include hardcoded values provided by the program (e.g., immediates) and/or other constant values. This portion of the shader can be extracted by the compiler and compiled into a first program. The compiler can compile the remainder of the shader into a second program that receives the derived uniform values from the first program. By extracting the portion(s) of the program that calculates a derived value into a separate program, the derived uniform value or values can be calculated at a lower frequency than if they were calculated for each pixel.

公开(公告)号：US20200218330A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-09

申请号：US16819385

申请日：2020-03-16

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Travis T. Schluessler ,  Joydeep Ray ,  John H. Feit ,  Nikos Kaburlasos ,  Jacek Kwiatkowski ,  Abhishek R. Appu ,  Kamal Sinha ,  James M. Holland ,  Pattabhiraman K. ,  Sayan Lahiri ,  Radhakrishnan Venkataraman ,  Carson Brownlee ,  Vivek Tiwari ,  Kai Xiao ,  Jefferson Amstutz ,  Deepak S. Vembar ,  Ankur N. Shah ,  ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall

IPC: G06F1/3218 ,  G06T1/20 ,  G06F1/3234 ,  G06F9/46

Abstract: An embodiment may include an application processor, persistent storage media coupled to the application processor, and a graphics subsystem coupled to the application processor. The system may further include any of a performance analyzer to analyze a performance of the graphics subsystem to provide performance analysis information, a content-based depth analyzer to analyze content to provide content-based depth analysis information, a focus analyzer to analyze a focus area to provide focus analysis information, an edge analyzer to provide edge analysis information, a frame analyzer to provide frame analysis information, and/or a variance analyzer to analyze respective amounts of variance for the frame. The system may further include a workload adjuster to adjust a workload of the graphics subsystem based on the analysis information. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

公开(公告)号：US20200210238A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-02

申请号：US16726341

申请日：2019-12-24

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Abhishek R Appu ,  Altug Koker ,  Balaji Vembu ,  Joydeep Ray ,  Kamal Sinha ,  Prasoonkumar Surti ,  Kiran C. Veernapu ,  Subramaniam Maiyuran ,  Sanjeev S. Jahagirdar ,  Eric J. Asperheim ,  Guei-Yuan Lueh ,  David Puffer ,  Wenyin Fu ,  Nikos Kaburlasos ,  Bhushan M. Borole ,  Josh B. Mastronarde ,  Linda L. Hurd ,  Travis T. Schluessler ,  Tomasz Janczak ,  Abhishek Venkatesh ,  Kai Xiao ,  Slawomir Grajewski

IPC: G06F9/50 ,  G06T15/00 ,  G06T1/60 ,  G06T1/20 ,  G06F9/48 ,  G06F1/329

Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units comprising at least a first type of execution unit and a second type of execution unit and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to analyze a workload and assign the workload to one of the first type of execution unit or the second type of execution unit. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

公开(公告)号：US10691392B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-23

申请号：US15488758

申请日：2017-04-17

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Eric J. Asperheim ,  Subramaniam M. Maiyuran ,  Kiran C. Veernapu ,  Sanjeev S. Jahagirdar ,  Balaji Vembu ,  Devan Burke ,  Philip R. Laws ,  Kamal Sinha ,  Abhishek R. Appu ,  Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall ,  Peter L. Doyle ,  Joydeep Ray ,  Travis T. Schluessler ,  John H. Feit ,  Nikos Kaburlasos ,  Jacek Kwiatkowski ,  Altug Koker

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  G06F3/14 ,  G09G5/391 ,  G06F3/0484 ,  G09G5/00

Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, the render rate is varied across and/or up and down the display screen. This may be done based on where the user is looking in order to reduce power consumption and/or increase performance. Specifically the screen display is separated into regions, such as quadrants. Each of these regions is rendered at a rate determined by at least one of what the user is currently looking at, what the user has looked at in the past and/or what it is predicted that the user will look at next. Areas of less focus may be rendered at a lower rate, reducing power consumption in some embodiments.

公开(公告)号：US10591971B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-17

申请号：US15477010

申请日：2017-04-01

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Travis T. Schluessler ,  Joydeep Ray ,  John H. Feit ,  Nikos Kaburlasos ,  Jacek Kwiatkowski ,  Abhishek R. Appu ,  Kamal Sinha ,  James M. Holland ,  Pattabhiraman K. ,  Sayan Lahiri ,  Radhakrishnan Venkataraman ,  Carson Brownlee ,  Vivek Tiwari ,  Kai Xiao ,  Jefferson Amstutz ,  Deepak S. Vembar ,  Ankur N. Shah ,  ElMoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall

IPC: G06F1/32 ,  G06F1/3218 ,  G06T1/20 ,  G06F1/3234 ,  G06F9/46

Abstract: An embodiment may include an application processor, persistent storage media coupled to the application processor, and a graphics subsystem coupled to the application processor. The system may further include any of a performance analyzer to analyze a performance of the graphics subsystem to provide performance analysis information, a content-based depth analyzer to analyze content to provide content-based depth analysis information, a focus analyzer to analyze a focus area to provide focus analysis information, an edge analyzer to provide edge analysis information, a frame analyzer to provide frame analysis information, and/or a variance analyzer to analyze respective amounts of variance for the frame. The system may further include a workload adjuster to adjust a workload of the graphics subsystem based on the analysis information. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

公开(公告)号：US10573055B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-25

申请号：US15693084

申请日：2017-08-31

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： John G. Gierach ,  Darrel K. Palke ,  Travis T. Schluessler ,  Prasoonkumar Surti

IPC: G06T15/00 ,  G06T15/80 ,  G06T15/40 ,  G06T15/20 ,  G06T1/60

Abstract: An apparatus and method for programmable depth stencil pipeline stage and shading. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises: a rasterizer to generate a plurality of pixel blocks, one or more of which overlap one or more primitives; programmable depth stencil circuitry to perform depth stencil tests on the pixels which overlap the one or more primitives to identify pixels which pass the depth stencil tests; and thread dispatch circuitry to dispatch pixel shader threads to perform pixel shading operations on those pixels which pass the depth stencil tests, the thread dispatch circuitry including thread dispatch recombine logic to combine pixels which have passed the depth stencil test from multiple pixel blocks into a set of pixel shader threads to be executed concurrently on single instruction multiple data (SIMD) hardware.

公开(公告)号：US20200026514A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-23

申请号：US16526147

申请日：2019-07-30

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Abhishek R. Appu ,  Altug Koker ,  Joydeep Ray ,  Kamal Sinha ,  Kiran C. Veernapu ,  Subramaniam Maiyuran ,  Prasoonkumar Surti ,  Guei-Yuan Lueh ,  David Puffer ,  Supratim Pal ,  Eric J. Hoekstra ,  Travis T. Schluessler ,  Linda L. Hurd

IPC: G06F9/30 ,  G06F9/38 ,  G06T15/00 ,  G06T1/60 ,  G06T1/20 ,  G06F9/46 ,  G09G5/36

Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units, and a first general register file (GRF) communicatively couple to the plurality of execution units, wherein the first GRF is shared by the plurality of execution units. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

公开(公告)号：US10452552B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-22

申请号：US15488988

申请日：2017-04-17

Applicant: Intel Corporation

Inventor： Andrew T. Lauritzen ,  Gabor Liktor ,  Tomer Bar-On ,  Hugues Labbe ,  John G. Gierach ,  Joydeep Ray ,  Travis T. Schluessler ,  John H. Feit ,  Nikos Kaburlasos ,  Jacek Kwiatkowski ,  Abhishek R. Appu ,  Balaji Vembu ,  Altug Koker

IPC: G06F12/0862 ,  G06F9/30 ,  G06F12/0875 ,  G06F12/0811 ,  G06F12/0855 ,  G06F9/38 ,  G06T1/20

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to track graphics pipeline operations. More particularly, the systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to track operation dependencies between graphics pipeline operations for blocks of pixel samples and stall one or more of the pipeline operations based on the operation dependencies. The systems, apparatuses and methods may further provide cache pre-fetch hardware to monitor processing of blocks of pixel samples and fetch a next block of the pixel samples from the memory into a cache before completion of processing a current block of pixel samples based on one or more of the pipeline operations or a surface state of one or more regions of a screen space.