Graphics processing hardware for using compute shaders as front end for vertex shaders

ME Cerny, D Simpson, J Scanlin, M Mantor - US Patent 10,134,102, 2018 - Google Patents
Aspects of the present disclosure are related to computer graphics. In particular, the present
disclosure is related to use 15 15 may manipulate certain values on a per-pixel basis before …

Using compute shaders as front end for vertex shaders

ME Cerny, D Simpson, J Scanlin - US Patent 10,176,621, 2019 - Google Patents
ABSTRACT A set of graphics primitive information for a virtual object may be processed with
compute shader running on a graph ics processing unit (GPU) to generate a modified set of …

Emerald: graphics modeling for SoC systems

AA Gubran, TM Aamodt - … of the 46th International Symposium on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Mobile systems-on-chips (SoCs) have become ubiquitous computing platforms, and, in
recent years, they have become increasingly heterogeneous and complex. A typical SoC …

Scheme for compressing vertex shader output parameters

ME Cerny, D Simpson, J Scanlin - US Patent 10,102,603, 2018 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A graphics processing may include implementing a vertex shader and a
pixel shader with a GPU. Vertex parameter values may be compressed with the vertex …

Allocation of primitives to primitive blocks

X Yang, JW Howson, J Redshaw - US Patent 10,957,097, 2021 - Google Patents
An application sends primitives to a graphics processing system so that an image of a 3D
scene can be rendered. The primitives are placed into primitive blocks for storage and …

Logging changes to data stored in distributed data storage system

I Schreter - US Patent 10,788,998, 2020 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method for logging changes to data stored in a distributed data storage
system can include responding to a request to change the data stored in the distributed data …

Cache memory architecture and policies for accelerating graph algorithms

P Faldu, J Diamond, A Patel - US Patent 10,417,134, 2019 - Google Patents
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12/0891(2016. 01) GO6F 12/0897(2016. 01) G06F 12/1027(2016. 01) G06F 12/12(2016 …

Writing graphics data from local memory to system memory

S Baral, A Seetharamaiah, CP Frascati - US Patent 10,078,883, 2018 - Google Patents
This disclosure is directed to graphics data storage. A graphics processing unit (GPU) may
determine pixels of a tile for which the GPU generated graphics data during the rendering of …

Graphics processing systems

P Harris, M Iwaniec, E Fielding - US Patent 10,559,054, 2020 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A graphics processing system includes a graphics processor and a
memory for storing data to be used by and generated by the graphics processor. In a first …

Hybrid key-value store

I Schreter - US Patent 11,188,241, 2021 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method for storing a key-value pair can include dividing the key-value
pair into a first data record and a second data record. The first data record can include a key …