| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 345504000 | Master-slave processors | 12 |
| 20090273603 | DETECTING CONNECTION TOPOLOGY IN A MULTI PROCESSOR GRAPHICS SYSTEM - Multiple graphics processors in a graphics processing system are interconnected in a unidirectional or bidirectional ring topology, allowing pixels to transferred from any one graphics processor to any other graphics processor. The system can automatically identify one or more “master” graphics processors to which one or more monitors are connected and configures the links of the ring such that one or more other graphics processors can deliver pixels to the master graphics processor, facilitating distributed rendering operations. The system can also automatically detect the connections or lack thereof between the graphics processors. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20110057936 | Managing Resources to Facilitate Altering the Number of Active Processors - A method of managing resources is provided. The method includes identifying a resource associated with a processor responsive to an impending transition, and copying the identified resource from a memory associated with the GPU or to the memory associated with the GPU. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20120120079 | COMPOSITING IN MULTIPLE VIDEO PROCESSING UNIT (VPU) SYSTEMS - The systems and methods include multiple processors that each couple to receive commands and data, where the commands and/or data correspond to frames of video that include multiple pixels. Additionally, an interlink module is coupled to receive processed data corresponding to the frames from each of the multiple processors. The interlink module selects pixels of the frames from the processed data of one of the processors based on a predetermined pixel characteristic and outputs the frames that include the selected pixels. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20130106870 | MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEMS | 05-02-2013 |
| 20130135324 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR DRIVING AN ANALOG INTERFEROMETRIC MODULATOR - This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for calibrating and controlling the actuation of an analog interferometric modulator. In one aspect, an electrode of a movable layer of the analog interferometric modulator may include a part for receiving a drive voltage, and an electrically isolated part. A voltage may be sensed from the electrically isolated part, and used to determine the position of the movable layer and/or provide feedback to the drive voltage. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20140098112 | RENDERING PROCESSOR - A main processor collects the edge information and color information of the pixels of a rendering target image using a rendering command, and sends the collected edge information and color information of the pixels to a sub-processor of the succeeding stage. The sub-processor sends the edge information and color information of a left rectangular region to a sub-processor, and also renders a right rectangular region and, upon receiving a process wait signal from the sub-processor, sends the rendering result to the sub-processor. The sub-processor renders the left rectangular region and sends the rendering result to the outside, and also sends, to the outside, the rendering result of the right rectangular region acquired by sending a process wait signal to the sub-processor. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140146057 | APPARATUS FOR 3D RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON MULTIPLE GPUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for 3D reconstruction based on multiple GPUs and a method thereof are disclosed. The 3D reconstruction apparatus according to the present invention includes a 3D reconstruction apparatus, comprising: a camera configured to generate depth data for 3D space; a first GPU configured to update first TSDF volume data with first depth data generated for a first area and predict a surface point of an object which is present in the space from the first updated TSDF volume data; a second GPU configured to update second TSDF volume data with second depth data generated for a second area and predict a surface point of an object which is present in the space from the second updated TSDF volume data; and a master GPU configured to combine a surface point predicted from the first TSDF volume data and a surface point estimated from the second TSDF volume data. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140218377 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT EXPANSION CARD AND METHOD FOR EXPANDING AND REGISTERING GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS - A number (n−1) of graphics processing units (GPUs) are serially connected in a sever. When an nth GPU is connected to an (n−1)th GPU of the server, a first control unit of the nth GPU is activated to send a predetermined signal to a master GPU which is connected to a motherboard of the server, to request a slave address for the nth GPU. A second control unit of the master GPU is activated to assign the slave address and send the slave address to the nth GPU, wherein the second control unit of the master GPU detects how many GPUs are connected with each other serially in the server, determines a percentage of operation loads of each of the GPUs to balance the operation loads of the GPUs, and assigns the operation loads between all the GPUs. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140306967 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for displaying images. The apparatus includes a first image output unit, a second image output unit, an image signal selection unit, and an image display unit. The first image output unit is set to master operation mode, and outputs an image signal to be displayed. The second image output unit is set to slave operation mode, and, if the first image output unit has failed, is switched to master operation mode and then continuously outputs the image signal or a new image signal. The image signal selection unit compares the IP source address of a received master message with previously stored address information, and then selects the image signal that is received from the first image output unit or the second image output unit that has a matching address. The image display unit displays the selected image signal. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20160163018 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A SCREEN THEREOF - A display apparatus and a method for displaying a screen thereof are provided. The display apparatus is configured to when a slave display apparatus approaches a display apparatus which displays contents, split the contents into a plurality of content split screens and transmit the content split screens to the slave display apparatus to correspond to an arrangement of the display apparatus and the slave display apparatus. The display apparatus is further configured to, when a slave display apparatus comes into contact with a master display apparatus, split contents displayed in the master display apparatus into a plurality of content split screens and transmit the content split screens to the slave display apparatus to correspond to a contact point between the master display apparatus and the slave display apparatus. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160189329 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - Several systems and methods for data processing are disclosed. In an embodiment, a data processing system includes a host processor, a plurality of slave processors and a plurality of frame buffers. Each slave processor is associated with at least one data co-processor configured to process data sub-frames based on one processing stage. For a first data sub-frame, a first messaging call is provisioned to the host processor by each slave processor subsequent to execution of a processing stage by an associated data co-processor. The host processor is configured to provision a second messaging call to a next slave processor upon receiving the first messaging call. Further, for each subsequent data sub-frame, a third messaging call is provisioned by each slave processor to a next slave processor subsequent to execution of the corresponding processing stage by the associated data co-processor for facilitating execution of the next processing stage. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20170236244 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING SYSTEMS | 08-17-2017 |
