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Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 09, 2018
Applicant:

Valve Corporation, Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventors:

Alex Vlachos, Bellevue, WA (US);

Aaron Leiby, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Valve Corporation, Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01); G06T 15/04 (2011.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); H04N 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 15/04 (2013.01); G06T 17/20 (2013.01); G06T 19/006 (2013.01); H04N 5/145 (2013.01);
Abstract

Described herein are motion smoothing techniques for a display system to account for motion of moving or animating objects in a way that mitigates judder. For example, first pixel data and second pixel data associated with two previously-rendered frames may be provided to a graphics processing unit (GPU) as input. The video encoder of the GPU can process the input pixel data to generate an array of motion vectors which is used to modify third pixel data of a re-projected frame. The modified third pixel data for the re-projected frame is 'motion-smoothed' for rendering on a display, such as a head-mounted display (HMD), in a manner that mitigates judder of moving or animating objects.


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