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Method and apparatus for interleaved processing of direct and indirect texture coordinates in a graphics system

InactiveUS7002591B1Efficient implementationIncrease in texture mapping hardware complexityCathode-ray tube indicators3D-image renderingPattern recognitionProcessing
A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. The system includes a graphics and audio processor including a 3D graphics pipeline and an audio digital signal processor. The graphics pipeline renders and prepares images for display at least in part in response to polygon vertex attribute data and texel color data stored as a texture images in an associated memory. An efficient texturing pipeline arrangement achieves a relatively low chip-footprint by utilizing a single texture coordinate / data processing unit that interleaves the processing of logical direct and indirect texture coordinate data and a texture lookup data feedback path for “recirculating” indirect texture lookup data retrieved from a single texture retrieval unit back to the texture coordinate / data processing unit. Versatile indirect texture referencing is achieved by using the same texture coordinate / data processing unit to transform the recirculated texture lookup data into offsets that may be added to the texture coordinates of a direct texture lookup. A generalized indirect texture API function is provided that supports defining at least four indirect texture referencing operations and allows for selectively associating one of at least eight different texture images with each indirect texture defined. Retrieved indirect texture lookup data is processed as multi-bit binary data triplets of three, four, five, or eight bits. The data triplets are multiplied by a 3×2 texture coordinate offset matrix before being optionally combined with regular non-indirect coordinate data or coordinate data from a previous cycle / stage of processing. Values of the offset matrix elements are variable and may be dynamically defined for each cycle / stage using selected constants. Two additional variable matrix configurations are also defined containing element values obtained from current direct texture coordinates. Circuitry for optionally biasing and scaling retrieved texture data is also provided.
Owner:NINTENDO CO LTD

Industrial robot capturing method based on monocular camera and three-dimensional force sensor

The invention discloses an industrial robot capturing method based on a monocular camera and a three-dimensional force sensor. The method comprises the steps that the monocular camera and the industrial robot are calibrated, and the three-dimensional force sensor is initialized; the monocular camera acquires an object image, an upper computer conducts image processing and calculates the position information of an object, the robot is controlled to move to a position above the object according to the position information, and then the robot moves downwards vertically till making contact with the object to be captured; the three-dimensional force sensor senses the contact force information between the tail end of the robot and the surface of the object, the upper computer controls the industrial robot to stop moving according to contact force information and calculates the pose increment of the tail end of the robot, the posture of the robot is adjusted according to the pose increment till a pneumatic sucker at the tail end of the robot is attached to the plane of the object to be captured, and the pneumatic sucker acts to achieve capturing. By the adoption of the method, objects placed obliquely in a messy mode can be captured, and complexity of camera calibration and object space pose estimation is reduced.
Owner:HUAZHONG UNIV OF SCI & TECH

Periodic amplitude control-based phased-array antenna system and wave beam control method

The invention discloses a periodic amplitude control-based phased-array antenna system. The periodic amplitude control-based phased-array antenna system comprises a plurality of phased-array antenna unit passages, a combiner, a power divider, a frequency converter unit and a medium frequency band pass filter unit, wherein each phased-array antenna unit passage comprises an antenna, a first radio frequency band pass filter, a duplexer, a variable gain amplifier unit, a second radio frequency band pass filter and an amplifier control unit; and the amplifier control unit periodically controls the gain of the variable gain amplifier unit. The invention also discloses a wave beam control method of the periodic amplitude control-based phased-array antenna system. By periodically controlling the amplitude of a transmitted/received radio frequency signal, combined control over the amplitude and the phase of the phased-array antenna system is realized, and directional diagram synthesis and adaptive wave beam formation of a phased-array antenna array can be realized without using a phase shift device; and the periodic amplitude control-based phased-array antenna system can be widely applied to systems requiring flexible wave beam control such as phased-array radar and electronic countermeasure.
Owner:SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIV

New spatio-spectral sampling paradigm for imaging and a novel color filter array design

One aspect of the present invention relates to a new alternative to the Bayer pattern for spatial subsampling in color imaging applications. One aspect of the present invention relates to a new design paradigm for spatio-spectral sampling, which is also described. The proposed scheme offers the potential to significantly reduce hardware complexity in a wide variety of applications, while at the same time improving output color image quality. According to another aspect, it is realized that conventional processing techniques are subject to diminishing returns, and with the exception of the most sophisticated processing techniques generate imperfections perceptible to a practiced eye. According to one aspect, a framework for CFA design in presented. In one embodiment the physical characteristics of the CFA are generated so that the spectral radii of luminance and chrominance channels are maximized. In another embodiment, the CFA designed to subject to the conditions of perfect reconstruction. In one aspect, the physical characteristics of CFA design are constrained to require physically realizable CFA(s). Alternatively, certain physical characteristics can be emphasized to generate easier to manufacture CFA(s). According to another aspect, conventional methods and systems are evaluated, confirming shortcomings regarding aliasing in imaging and bandwidth, against which certain embodiments are benchmarked, showing improved performance under at least some embodiments of proposed designs and methods. According to another aspect, a display device CFA is evaluated in terms of throughput of stimuli as limited by aliasing. It is shown the spectral replicas of the chrominance signals induced by existing CFA patterns are centered around frequencies that are not sufficiently far from the DC, consequently overlapping with the luminance signal spectrum and reducing the throughput of the stimuli. By reinterpreting the interactions between the stimuli, display CFA, and CSF in terms of amplitude modulation, an alternative CFA coding scheme that modulates the chrominance signals to a higher frequency relative to common schemes is provided in some embodiments.
Owner:PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE

Method and apparatus for interleaved processing of direct and indirect texture coordinates in a graphics system

A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. The system includes a graphics and audio processor including a 3D graphics pipeline and an audio digital signal processor. The graphics pipeline renders and prepares images for display at least in part in response to polygon vertex attribute data and texel color data stored as a texture images in an associated memory. An efficient texturing pipeline arrangement achieves a relatively low chip-footprint by utilizing a single texture coordinate / data processing unit that interleaves the processing of logical direct and indirect texture coordinate data and a texture lookup data feedback path for “recirculating” indirect texture lookup data retrieved from a single texture retrieval unit back to the texture coordinate / data processing unit. Versatile indirect texture referencing is achieved by using the same texture coordinate / data processing unit to transform the recirculated texture lookup data into offsets that may be added to the texture coordinates of a direct texture lookup. A generalized indirect texture API function is provided that supports defining at least four indirect texture referencing operations and allows for selectively associating one of at least eight different texture images with each indirect texture defined. Retrieved indirect texture lookup data is processed as multi-bit binary data triplets of three, four, five, or eight bits. The data triplets are multiplied by a 3×2 texture coordinate offset matrix before being optionally combined with regular non-indirect coordinate data or coordinate data from a previous cycle / stage of processing. Values of the offset matrix elements are variable and may be dynamically defined for each cycle / stage using selected constants. Two additional variable matrix configurations are also defined containing element values obtained from current direct texture coordinates. Circuitry for optionally biasing and scaling retrieved texture data is also provided.
Owner:NINTENDO CO LTD

Implementation method of rename table of global register under on-chip multi-processor system framework

The invention relates to the technical field of on-chip multi-processor system structure, aiming at providing an implementation method of a rename table of a global register under on-chip multi-processor system framework. The method comprises the steps: designing the rename table of the global register; processing the dependency relationship 'writing-after-writing' of command; processing the dependency relationship 'writing-after-reading' of command; acquiring operand; writing back results; and submitting the command. As the rename table of the global register is used by the method, the dependency relationship of the commands of different processors can be recorded, and the dependency of 'writing-after-reading' and 'writing-after-writing' can be solved; the operand of the commands of the different processors can be maintained and transmitted through the rename table of the global register, so that the internuclear communication volume can be reduced; as hardware configuration used by the rename table of the global register is a logical table, the structure is simple, the complexity of hardware is low, the area of the rename table of the global register is only 1% of that of one on-chip processor, and tiny area cost is caused.
Owner:ZHEJIANG UNIV

A vhf frequency band cloud lightning detection and positioning system

The invention discloses a VHF (very high frequency) frequency-range intracloud lightning detecting and positioning system, which comprises a central treatment station and a plurality of detection and treatment sub-stations arranged in different positions, wherein the detection and treatment sub-stations and the central treatment station are accessed into a public wide area network in a wired or wireless mode; and through the wide area network, on one hand, obtained intracloud lightning detection data is uploaded to the central treatment station by the detection and treatment sub-stations, andon the other hand, the working state of each detection and treatment sub-station is remotely monitored by the central treatment station. The system can be used for precisely estimating the incidence directions of lightning radiation signals of a plurality of simultaneously occurring lightning radiation sources or the same lightning radiation source arriving at the detection sub-stations through different propagation paths, the arriving time difference of the lightning signals between any two detection and treatment sub-stations is calculated at the central treatment station (TDOA estimation),and the spatial position of an intracloud lightning radiation source is determined by DOA and TDOA information.
Owner:HUAZHONG UNIV OF SCI & TECH

Low-complexity hybrid precoding method in millimeter wave large-scale MIMO system

The invention discloses a low-complexity hybrid precoding method in a millimeter wave large-scale MIMO system. In the method, the minimum F norm is got between corresponding positions of a precoding scheme corresponding to each radio frequency link and partially connected with a hybrid precoding scheme and an optimal digital precoding scheme under the condition of not considering the radio frequency link, and thus a digital precoding matrix and an analog precoding matrix of each radio frequency link are got via computation. The phase of the analog precoding matrix of each radio frequency linkis the phase of a maximum singular value vector of the optimal digital precoding matrix, the real part of a digital precoding matrix element is the product of conjugate transpose of the analog precoding matrix and the real part of an optimal digital precoding vector at a corresponding position, and the imaginary part of the digital precoding matrix element is the product of the conjugate transposeof the analog precoding matrix and the opposite number of the imaginary part of the optimal digital precoding vector at the corresponding position. Compared with analog precoding, the method providedby the invention can acquire the higher system accessibility and speed with the lower algorithm complexity.
Owner:HANGZHOU DIANZI UNIV

RSS-based LED positioning system and method

The invention discloses an RSS-based LED positioning system and method, and relates to the field of LED communication and indoor positioning application. The RSS-based LED positioning system comprises at least three sending ends and one receiving end. Each sending end comprises a T-shaped bias device and an LED. The sending ends add PN code sequences before data to be transmitted, and the sequences are converted to visible light for emitting through the T-shaped bias devices and the LEDs; a photo-detector at the receiving end detects visible light signals and converts the visible light signals into electric signals, one FFT unit performs FFT transformation on the electric signals, other FFT units are used for FFT transformation of each PN code, a multiplier performs convolution multiplying on a result and an FFT operation result of each PN code, each product carries out IFFT transformation, a comparison circuit is used for finding out a peak value of time domain signals, and a power-distance conversion module estimates the value of a distance between the receiving end and each LED and outputting the value. According to the invention, multiple orthogonal PN codes are sent for distinguishing different LED sources, such that the hardware complexity of the sending ends is reduced, and the LED bandwidth is decreased.
Owner:WUHAN POST & TELECOMM RES INST CO LTD

Quasi-cyclic low-density odd-even check convolution code coding-decoding system and coding-decoding method thereof

The invention provides a quasi-cyclic low-density odd-even check convolution code coding-decoding system and a coding-decoding method thereof and belongs to the technical field of digital signals, wherein the system comprises a code word constructor, a coder module and a decoder module; and the code word constructor generates check mother matrixes, transfers the corresponding information such as data access addresses and translocation factors to the coder module and the decoder module respectively and stores the information in the respective mother matrix memory cells, the coder module obtains the input data from the information source and transfers the coded output data to a channel, and the decoder module obtains the input information from the channel and outputs the decoded information. By adding the quasi-cyclic unit matrixes, the system achieves the better decoding performance by less iterations so that the hardware cost is obviously reduced; the quasi-cyclic unit matrixes adopt the low-density check code structure, and the concurrent operation can be performed in both coding and decoding process so that the decoding clock delay is effectively reduced, and the throughput rateis greatly improved.
Owner:SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIV
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