Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Matthew Gordon

Eric David Heutchy

Aaron Blake Stover

Roger John Perkins

Daniel Gilbert Kennett

Warren Lee Burch

Eric Cameron Walston

Scott D Mosier

Ke Deng

Chen Li

A method of providing interaction with a game instance of a game application by a remote user includes, at a distribution node, receiving video information from a game server, encoding the video information into encoded video information, distributing the encoded video information to a client device, receiving a user input from the client device, and transmitting the user input to the game server.

Systems and methods for streaming interactive applications

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media to selectively enhance digital image and video content. For example, systems disclosed herein can encode original video content to compress and decompress the original video content. Systems described herein can further identify area of interest information for use in identifying portions of decompressed video content to analyze and remove one or more compression artifacts found therein. Systems described herein can further enhance the decompressed video content by increasing resolution for display. By identifying areas of interest and selectively enhancing digital video content, the systems described herein can reduce consumption of bandwidth and processing resources while maintaining high visual quality of the digital content.

Selectively enhancing compressed digital content

A computing system configured to execute instructions for a first graphical processing unit (GPU) on a second GPU is provided. The computing system may include the second GPU and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive second GPU state data that indicates one or more global properties of the second GPU. The processor may be further configured to receive one or more binary instructions for texture operation configured to be executed on the first GPU. Based on the second GPU state data, the processor may be further configured to apply a texture value patch to the one or more binary instructions. Applying the texture value patch may translate the one or more binary instructions into one or more translated binary instructions configured to be executed on the second GPU.

Texture value patch used in GPU-executed program sequence cross-compilation

Examples described herein improve the quality of the video frames that are rendered and displayed. A system is configured to generate render targets based on instructions received from a source of video content. The system is configured to create and/or access a selection parameter and use the selection parameter to identify one or more of the render targets to be scaled. Once identified, the system scales a native size (e.g., a native resolution) of an identified render target to a larger size (e.g., based on a predetermined scaling factor), thereby generating a higher density render target. The higher density render target, or a corresponding higher density render target texture (RTT), can be used in a rendering pipeline to produce a video frame in a higher output resolution (e.g., 4k resolution) compared to the output resolution specified in the instructions (e.g., 720p resolution).

Scaling render targets to a higher rendering resolution to display higher quality video frames

According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a computing system is provided, including a graphical processing unit (GPU) and a processor. The processor may be configured to execute a run-time executable cross-compiler to receive a GPU-executed program of a plurality of GPU-executed programs. The processor may be further configured to receive summary data associated with the GPU-executed program. The summary data may include a sequence in which the plurality of GPU-executed programs are configured to be executed. Based at least in part on the GPU-executed program and the summary data, the processor may be further configured to generate a translated GPU-executed program.

GPU-executed program sequence cross-compilation

A computing device for just-in-time cross-compiling compiled binaries of application programs that utilize graphics processing unit (GPU) executed programs configured to be executed on a first GPU having a first application binary interface (ABI) including a second GPU having a second ABI different from the first ABI of the first GPU, and a processor configured to execute an application program that utilizes a plurality of GPU-executed programs configured to be executed for the first ABI of the first GPU, execute a run-time executable cross-compiler configured to, while the application program is being executed, emulate the first ABI using hardware resources of the second GPU by translating between the first ABI and the second ABI, and execute the plurality of GPU-executed programs on the second GPU with the emulated first ABI, and pass output of the plurality of GPU-executed programs for the emulated first ABI through the second ABI.

Application binary interface cross compilation

A computing device for just-in-time cross-compiling compiled binaries of application programs that utilize graphics processing unit (GPU) executed programs configured to be executed on a first GPU having a first instruction set architecture (ISA), the computing device including a second GPU having a second ISA different from the first ISA of the first GPU, and a processor configured to execute an application program that utilizes a plurality of GPU-executed programs configured to be executed for the first ISA of the first GPU, execute a run-time executable cross-compiler configured to, while the application program is being executed, translate compiled binary of the plurality of GPU-executed programs from the first ISA to the second ISA, and execute the translated plurality of GPU-executed programs on the second GPU.

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Matthew Gordon