Nvidia Corporation

Lars Nordskog

Rouslan Lyubomirov Dimitrov

Sau Yan Keith Li

Thomas A Petersen

Ankan Banerjee

Shishir Goyal

Yury Y Uralsky

Seth P Schneider

Cody J Robson

Gerrit Ary Slavenburg

Tom J Verbeure

Morgan Samuel McGuire

Josef Bo Spjut

Charles N Hansen

Joohwan Kim

Benjamin Boudaoud

Dmitriy Zhdan

Seth Schneider

Dmitry Zhdan

Cody Robson

Charles Hansen

A weighted average execution time associated with each execution stage of a plurality of execution stages used to process a plurality of frames in parallel is obtained. The processing of each of the plurality of frames is performed at each of the plurality of execution stages in a sequential order, starting with an initial execution stage and continuing with each subsequent execution stage. A first largest weighted average execution time associated with one of the plurality of execution stages is determined. A delay to the initial execution stage prior to processing a first next frame is applied. The delay is determined based on the first largest weighted average execution time.

Dynamically reducing latency in processing pipelines

Embodiments of the present invention provide end-to-end frame time synchronization designed to improve smoothness for displaying images of 3D applications, such as PC gaming applications. Traditionally, an application that renders 3D graphics functions based on the assumption that the average render time will be used as the animation time for a given frame. When this condition is not met, and the render time for a frame does not match the average render time of prior frames, the frames are not captured or displayed at a consistent rate. This invention enables feedback to be provided to the rendering application for adjusting the animation times used to produce new frames, and a post-render queue is used to store completed frames for mitigating stutter and hitches. Flip control is used to sync the display of a rendered frame with the animation time used to generate the frame, thereby producing a smooth, consistent image.

Systems and methods for frame time smoothing based on modified animation advancement and use of post render queues

A display device for measuring the end-to-end latency of a computing system. The computing system includes an input device, a computing device, and the display device. The display device is directly connected with the input device and receives input data packets generated by the input device in response to received user input events. The display device passes the input packets to the computing device for graphics processing. The display device measures the end-to-end latency comprising the sum of three latencies. A first latency comprises an input delay of the input device. A second latency comprises an amount of time between generation of the input packet and a corresponding change in pixel values caused by the input event at the display device. A third latency comprises a display latency. The display device also displays latency information associated with the measured end-to-end latency.

System-latency-aware display device

Techniques for rendering images on multiple tilted displays concurrently to mitigate perspective distortion are disclosed herein. According to one described approach, viewports are assigned to a center monitor and two peripheral monitors. Scene data for the viewports is calculated, and geometric primitives are generated for the viewports based on the scene data. Image transformation is performed based on a modified perspective value to modify geometry of the geometric primitives based on tilt angles of the displays, and the geometric primitives are rasterized using the modified geometry.

Method and apparatus for rendering perspective-correct images for a tilted multi-display environment

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Corte Madera, CA, United States of America

Lars Nordskog