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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
May. 05, 2020
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ingo Wald, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Brent E. Insko, Portland, OR (US);
Prasoonkumar Surti, Folsom, CA (US);
Adam T. Lake, Portland, OR (US);
Peter L. Doyle, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Daniel Pohl, Puchheim, DE;
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of a virtual reality apparatus comprises: a graphics processing engine comprising a plurality of graphics processing stages, the graphics processing engine to render a plurality of image frames for left and right displays of a head mounted display (HMD); and foveation control hardware logic to independently control two or more of the plurality of graphics processing stages based on feedback received from an eye tracking module of the HMD, the feedback indicating a foveated region selected based on a current or anticipated direction of a user's gaze, the foveation control hardware logic to cause the two or more of the graphics processing stages to process the foveated region differently than other regions of the image frames.