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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2019
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Shah Tanmay Anilkumar, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Samuel Edward Hare, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Guohui Wang, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for initiating transfer of image data corresponding to at least one predetermined level of an image pyramid comprising higher resolution to a graphic processing unit (GPU) of the computing device, calculating, by the central processing unit (CPU) of the computing device, optical flow of at least one predetermined coarse level of the image pyramid, transferring, by the CPU of the computing device, the calculated optical flow of the at least one predetermined coarse level of the image pyramid to the GPU, calculating, by the GPU of the computing device, the optical flow of the at least one predetermined level of the image pyramid comprising higher resolution, and outputting, by the GPU of the computing device, the optical flow of the image data.