67 results about "Parallel rendering" patented technology

A bridge associated with a broadcast aperture facilitates the transfer of rendering commands and data between a processor and multiple graphics devices. The bridge receives data written by the processor to the broadcast aperture and forwards it to multiple graphics devices, eliminating the need for the processor to perform duplicative(?) write operations. During system initialization, a broadcast aperture is allocated to the bridge in address space based on an aperture size value set using a system configuration utility and stored in system configuration memory. A graphics driver activates the broadcast aperture by sending unicast aperture parameters associated with the multiple graphics devices to the bridge via a bridge driver. Upon activating the broadcast aperture, multiple graphics devices can be operated in parallel to improve rendering performance. Parallel rendering techniques include split-frame, alternate frame, and combined split- and alternate frame rendering.

There is provided a rendering system for processing pixels corresponding to a predetermined graphic in parallel by dividing a two-dimensional image coordinate system into areas each composed of a plurality of pixels of N pixels in a first direction and M pixels in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, i.e. NxM pixels in total, and by allocating NxM computing sections respectively to the NxM pixels contained in that area. Specifically, the rendering system comprises a calculating section for calculating variations of the rendering data with respect to the first and second directions necessary for interpolating values of the rendering data in each pixel within a predetermined graphic from predetermined apex data of the predetermined graphic and an initial value of the rendering data with respect to the coordinate in the first direction which becomes the reference for computing the rendering data with respect to the second direction by means of interpolation by using the value of the predetermined apex data and the variation of the rendering data with respect to the first direction; and NxM computing sections for calculating the rendering data of the pixel in the second direction by means of interpolation by using the above-mentioned initial value and the variation of the rendering data with respect to the second direction. Thereby, the present invention allows the pixels to be rendered in parallel at high speed in the definition of sub-pixel level.

A system and method for providing an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows users to write complex graphics and visualization applications with little knowledge of how to parallelize or distribute the application across a graphics cluster. The interface enables users to develop an application program using a common programming paradigm (e.g., scene graph) in a manner that accommodates handling parallel rendering tasks and rendering environments. The visualization applications written by developers take better advantage of the aggregate resources of a cluster. The programming model provided by APT function calls handles scene-graph(s) data in a manner such that the scene and data management are decoupled from the rendering, compositing, and display. As a result, the system and method is not beholden to one particular graphics rendering API (e.g. OpenGL, Direct X, etc.) and provides the ability to switch between these APIs even during runtime.

A system and method for rapid processing of scene-graph-based data and/or programs using a render bin is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system may be configured to generate a plurality of structures and thread that manage the data originally received as part of the scene graph. The structures and threads may be configured to convey information about state changes through the use of messaging. The system may include support for messaging between threads, messaging with time and/or event stamps, epochs to ensure consistency, and ancillary structures such as render-bins, geometry structures, and rendering environment structures. One of the structures may be a render bin that may be used to implement parallel rendering.

A technique for distributed printing that ensures favorable operability within a sufficiently short time. The procedure first generates intermediate print data and executes the parallel rendering process by time sharing to sequentially convert page data on the first page of the intermediate print data into data adequate for the printers. Transmission of final print data converted for the first printer is carried out in parallel with the rendering process for the second printer. In a similar manner, transmission of converted final print data to the second printer and third printers is carried out in parallel with the rendering process for the next printer. The parallel rendering process sequentially converts page data on the second page of the intermediate print data into data adequate for the printers. Subsequently, the parallel rendering process sequentially converts page data on the third page of the intermediate print data into data adequate for the printers.

The invention provides a multi-screen parallel massive information display system. An integral splicing wall is divided by the system with four screens as a unit, each four screens are controlled by an accessory node controller, and the accessory node controllers are connected with a master node controller through a high-speed internet. Under unified allocation and organization of the master node controller, external massive data (including analog video signals, digital signals of a computer and the like) are transmitted to the high-speed internet after quantization and digital processing and finally transmitted to the accessory node controllers, and images are parallelly rendered to a video memory by the accessory node controllers and displayed on a high-definition splicing display screen. The system comprehensively applies the CPU (central processing unit)+CPU parallel processing technology, the cloud computing technology and the high-speed network technology, so that the massive data which cannot be processed and displayed by a traditional system are quickly displayed in real time.

The invention discloses a CPU and GPU hybrid cloud rendering method, device and system, and relates to the technical field of cloud computing. According to the method, a rendering task is decomposed into logic continuous type rendering tasks and parallel rendering tasks to be respectively transmitted to a CPU and a GPU to be processed, and original frame graphs are generated by linkage output rendering of the CPU and GPU rendering results; and the ordered original frame graphs are segmented and then allocated to coding channels in a unified coding processing resource pool in turn to perform segmented fluidization coding, and the coding results outputted by all the coding channels are integrated to form a media stream. A mode of CPU and GPU rendering capability integration, combination and focusing of labor division is adopted by the method, the device and the system, and the integrated solution scheme from picture rendering to fluidization is realized via unified segmented fluidization processing through the CPU and the GPU unified coding processing capacity resource pool. Compared with a single CPU and GPU rendering method, service quality and service efficiency can be effectively enhanced by the scheme.

An embodiment of the invention discloses an image processing method and a terminal device and is applied to the technical field of computers. The method disclosed in an embodiment of the invention comprises the following steps: an object image to be rendered is obtained after the image to be rendered is subjected to filtering operation via use of a rapid median filtering algorithm based on mean value acceleration; a rendering task for rendering the object image to be rendered is decomposed into a serial rendering task and a parallel rendering task, the serial rendering task is sent to a central processor CPU and is subjected to serial processing operation, the parallel rendering task is sent to a figure processor GPU and is subjected to parallel processing operation, and a rendering result obtained via the serial processing operation performed through the CPU and a rendering result obtained via the parallel processing operation performed through the GPU are synthesized into an object rendered image. Image rendering speed can be improved, and frame lag phenomena can be reduced.

The invention discloses a layer rendering processing method of a video image and a system thereof. The method comprises the following steps of reading multi-layer data of a current video image frame and carrying out grouping processing on the read multi-layer data to obtain one or more layer groups, wherein the layer data in the same layer group is not mutually exclusive, and whether the layer data is mutually exclusive is at least partially based on whether the layer data in the layer groups is overlapped or is at least partially determined based on a floating point value corresponding to a single channel color of the overlapped layer data before blending and a floating point value corresponding to the single channel color of the overlapped layer data after blending; carrying out pixel parallel rendering processing on the one or more layer groups. By using the method and the system of the invention, target maximization of visual elegance, design flexibility, and real-time processing can be realized.

A method of printing document data in page description language format using a plurality of graphics processing units. The plurality of tiles representing the document using the assigned graphics processing units are rendered in parallel with one another, and the rendered tiles are transmitted, bypassing the central processing units, from each of the graphics processing units to a corresponding one of a plurality of print head controllers, with the rendered tiles transmitted at a higher frequency than a frequency at which the plurality of tiles is output from each print head controller. The rendered tiles are repeatedly transmitted until each print head controller completes output of the previous band.

A method and system for improving data coherency in a parallel rendering system is disclosed. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of receiving a common input stream, tracking a periodic event associated with the common input stream, generating a plurality of fragment streams from the common input stream, inserting a marker based on an occurrence of the periodic event in a first fragment stream in the multiple fragment streams, and utilizing the marker to influence the processing of the first fragment stream so that a plurality of raster operation (ROP) request streams maintains substantially the same coherence as the common input stream. Each fragment stream is independently processed and corresponds to one of the ROP request streams.

The invention discloses a large-scale three-dimensional group performance animation parallel rendering method based on PBRT, including a preprocessing stage: combining 3ds Max software and a PBRT rendering plug-in, exporting relevant rendering data suitable for a PBRT rendering program, and then generating actions and Write the location data into the rendering script file corresponding to PBRT, and generate PBRT main rendering files in batches; parallel computing resource configuration stage: according to the currently available computing resources, assign the PBRT main rendering files corresponding to the entire animation to be rendered to different computing resources On different processors of the node, and then call the PBRT rendering program in parallel to render, and get the numbered picture sequence; post-processing stage: synthesize the rendered numbered picture sequence into an animation video, and finally get a high-fidelity Sense of three-dimensional group performance animation.

A method and system for improving data coherency in a parallel rendering system is disclosed. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for managing a plurality of independently processed texture streams in a parallel rendering system that includes the steps of maintaining a time stamp for a group of tiles of work that are associated with each of the plurality of the texture streams and are associated with a specified area in screen space, and utilizing the time stamps to counter divergences in the independent processing of the plurality of texture streams.

The invention discloses an internet of things-based digital media creation system and a creation method. According to the system, professional digital media soft-hardware resources are open to a platform, so that the platform has the real-time material capturing capability and the massive digital media storage capability; and thus a unified creation function for various types of digital medias is realized and the creation efficiency is improved. The provided system comprises: an application layer, which is used for providing originality and design interfaces for movie-video special effects, animation a digital media material library; an intermediate layer, which is used for providing a digital cloud media platform and providing movie-video special effect and animation production software, high reality parallel rendering engine software and a massive digital media material library based on the platform; and a base layer, which is used for providing a digital media service based on the Internet of things and includes a digital media internet-of-things intelligent gateway and an internet of things-based massive media data fusion processing module.

The invention provides an intelligent scheduling management method for multi-scale parallel rendering jobs; the method comprises the following steps: judging the type of the jobs by using a job managing and scheduling system before the rendering jobs are started, and then performing corresponding scheduling and distribution, dividing the rendering jobs into two types of time stream parallel and screen space parallel according to the difference of the source consumption of the rendering jobs. By adopting the method, the rendering job scheduling and managing and load balancing problems in a large-scale animation rendering service cloud platform are effectively solved; by adopting the technology scheme, the intelligent multi-scale parallel rendering job scheduling is supported, furthermore, the minimum granularity of the rendering jobs can be selected intelligently according to the complexity of the rendering jobs, and therefore, the load balancing of the whole rendering service cloud platform is guarantee effectively.

The embodiment of the invention provides a particle rendering method, device and apparatus and the method comprises the steps: determining an initial attribute value of a to-be-rendered particle in alife cycle of the to-be-rendered particle, and a parameter value of an attribute function employed by the rendered particle; wherein the attribute function is used for representing a change rule of particle attributes along with time; instantiating the preset attribute function by adopting the parameter value to obtain an attribute function instance; obtaining an initial attribute value of the to-be-rendered particle according to the initial attribute value of the to-be-rendered particle and the attribute function instance; and performing parallel rendering processing on the attribute of eachtime node of the to-be-rendered particle in the life cycle of the to-be-rendered particle to obtain an attribute value of each time node after rendering processing, thereby solving the problems that in the prior art, when particle rendering is performed each time, a code program needs to be written independently, and the design reusability is relatively poor.

The invention discloses a calculation method and system for distributed parallel rendering of a local area network environment. The method comprises the steps that 1, a user installs a client to loada Lumion model; step 2, the Lumion model is fragmented through computing resources of a user computer; step 3, after fragmentation, the client uploads Lumion model information to a scheduling center;the scheduling center sends a data downloading instruction to each computing power node, each computing power node downloads fragments based on the downloading instruction to form a 'data seed', and shares the data seeds through a point-to-point transmission technology, so that each computing power node downloads complete model data; 4, rendering tasks of the corresponding fragments are executed according to a calculation instruction of the scheduling center; and 5, the rendering result is uploaded to a verification/splicing node, and correctness verification and splicing are preformed on therendering result from each computing power node by the node to generate a final rendering result.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional volume data visualization parallel rendering method based on OpenCL. The method comprises the steps of three-dimensional volume data reading, coordinate normalization, viewpoint coordinate transformation, ray and volume data intersection point calculation, self-adaptive sampling, smooth interpolation and gradient calculation, and three-dimensional visualrendering according to color values of sampling points and an opacity accumulation result. According to the invention, the attenuation function is used as the sampling density function of the adaptive sampling method to perform non-uniform sampling, so that computing resources can be efficiently utilized, and the rendering effect is improved; and smooth interpolation and gradient calculation arecarried out on sampling points by adopting a cubic B-spline function, so that a higher degree of freedom is provided on the premise of ensuring relatively low calculation complexity, and a smoother rendering result can be obtained.

Embodiments of the invention provide a pie chart rendering method and an apparatus thereof. The method comprises the following steps of acquiring a weight of each element and calculating an angle of a fillet area corresponding to each element according to the weight, wherein the weight of each element is a proportion of a data size corresponding to the element to a total data size, and the total data size is a sum of the data sizes corresponding to all the elements; according to the angle, in an initial pie chart which is drawn in advance, drawing a segmentation wire of the fillet area corresponding to each angle, wherein the two adjacent segmentation wires determine the fillet area corresponding to one element; taking each segmentation wire as an initial rendering position and rendering the fillet area where the segmentation wire is located along a clockwise direction and an anti-clockwise direction so as to complete pie chart rendering. In the embodiments of the invention, through drawing the segmentation wires in an initialized pie chart, the fillet area is formed; and each segmentation wire is taken as the initial rendering position and parallel rendering is performed on the fillet area along the clockwise direction and the anti-clockwise direction. By using the method, a rendering speed is fast and rendering time is shortened.