Jason L Gould, 43Dupont, WA

2011008, Apr 14, 2011

Oct 9, 2009

12/576548

Jason Matthew Gould - Woodinville WA, US
Michael Edward Pietraszak - Woodinville WA, US
Zsolt Mathe - Issaquah WA, US
J. Andrew Goossen - Issaquah WA, US
Casey Leon Meekhof - Kirkland WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06T 15/50

345426

A method and system are disclosed for automatic instrumentation that modifies a video game's shaders at run-time to collect detailed statistics about texture fetches such as MIP usage. The tracking may be transparent to the game application and therefore not require modifications to the application. In an embodiment, the method may be implemented in a software development kit used to record and provide texture usage data and optionally generate a report.

2011008, Apr 14, 2011

Oct 9, 2009

12/576689

Jason Matthew Gould - Woodinville WA, US
Juan Carlos Arevalo Baeza - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G09G 5/00
G06T 15/50
G06F 15/167

345426, 345582, 345541

In one embodiment, a texture identification method and system are disclosed that uniquely identifies textures as they are used by the application and associates collected, inferred, or user-specified data with objects not owned by the library. In various embodiments, textures may be identified in various scenarios such as when textures are loaded, deleted, relocated, reloaded, and the like. In a further embodiment, APIs are provided that the application can call to provide useful information to the system that can improve the quality of the data in some situations

2020005, Feb 13, 2020

Sep 16, 2019

16/572252

- Redmond WA, US
Jason M. Gould - Woodinville WA, US

G06T 9/00
G06T 1/20
G06T 1/60
G06T 17/20
G06T 15/80

Methods and devices for index buffer block compression in a computer system include a compressor in communication with a graphical processing unit (GPU). The methods and devices include selecting one or more primitives of at least a portion of a mesh formed by a total number of primitives for inclusion within a compressed index buffer block, the one or more primitives each associated with a number of indices each corresponding to a vertex within the mesh. The methods and devices may identify at least one redundant index in the number of indices associated with the one or more primitives of the compressed index buffer block. The methods and devices removing the at least one redundant index from the number of indices associated with the one or more primitives of the compressed index buffer block to form the compressed index buffer block as a set of one or more unique indices.

2019017, Jun 6, 2019

Oct 30, 2018

16/175463

- Redmond WA, US
Jason Matthew GOULD - Woodinville WA, US
Alexander NANKERVIS - Seattle WA, US
Charles Neill BOYD - Woodinville WA, US

G06T 15/00
G06T 11/40
G06T 15/04
G06T 15/80

Methods and devices for rendering graphics in a computer system include a graphical processing unit (GPU) with a flexible, dynamic, application-directed mechanism for varying the rate at which fragment shading is performed for rendering an image to a display. In particular, the described aspects allow different shading rates to be used for different regions of a primitive based on a new, interpolated shading rate parameter. In other words, the described aspects enable the GPU to change shading rates on-the-fly between different fragments of each primitive. Additionally, or independently, the GPU utilizes each respective shading rate parameter to determine how many sample positions to consider to be covered by the computed shaded output, e.g., the fragment color, thereby allowing the color sample to be shared across two or more pixels.

2018023, Aug 16, 2018

Jun 16, 2017

15/625887

- Redmond WA, US
Jason Gould - Woodinville WA, US

G06T 9/00
G06T 1/20
G06T 1/60
G06T 17/20
G06T 15/80

Methods and devices for index buffer block compression in a computer system include a compressor in communication with a graphical processing unit (GPU). The methods and devices include selecting one or more primitives of at least a portion of a mesh formed by a total number of primitives for inclusion within a compressed index buffer block, the one or more primitives each associated with a number of indices each corresponding to a vertex within the mesh. The methods and devices may identify at least one redundant index in the number of indices associated with the one or more primitives of the compressed index buffer block. The methods and devices removing the at least one redundant index from the number of indices associated with the one or more primitives of the compressed index buffer block to form the compressed index buffer block as a set of one or more unique indices.

2018023, Aug 16, 2018

Jun 30, 2017

15/639527

- Redmond WA, US
Martin J. I. FULLER - Warwick, GB
Adam J. MILES - Reading, GB
Jason M. GOULD - Woodinville WA, US

G06T 15/00
G06T 15/80
G06T 1/60

Methods and devices for rendering graphics in a computer device include receiving, at a graphics processing unit (GPU), a memory location address of a portion of a primitive to be rendered along with an indication of one or more values of one or more pixel shader parameters for the portion of the primitive, selecting, by the GPU, a pixel shader from a plurality of possible pixel shaders based on the indication of the one or more values of the one or more pixel shader parameters, and generating, by the GPU, at least one output of a render target of the portion of the primitive based on applying the pixel shader to the portion of the primitive.

2018004, Feb 15, 2018

Aug 15, 2016

15/237334

- Redmond WA, US
Jason Matthew GOULD - Woodinville WA, US
Alexander NANKERVIS - Seattle WA, US
Charles Neill BOYD - Woodinville WA, US

G06T 15/00
G06T 15/80
G06T 15/04

Methods and devices for rendering graphics in a computer system include a graphical processing unit (GPU) with a flexible, dynamic, application-directed mechanism for varying the rate at which fragment shading is performed for rendering an image to a display. In particular, the described aspects allow different shading rates to be used for different regions of a primitive based on a new, interpolated shading rate parameter. In other words, the described aspects enable the GPU to change shading rates on-the-fly between different fragments of each primitive. Additionally, or independently, the GPU utilizes each respective shading rate parameter to determine how many sample positions to consider to be covered by the computed shaded output, e.g., the fragment color, thereby allowing the color sample to be shared across two or more pixels.