Collaborative multi-user virtual reality

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11520555-B2
Application number	US-202117162864-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 29, 2021
Priority date	Apr 17, 2017
Publication date	Dec 6, 2022
Grant date	Dec 6, 2022

Abstract

An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a processor, memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and a collaboration engine communicatively coupled to the processor to identify a shared graphics component between two or more users in an environment, and share the shared graphics components with the two or more users in the environment. Embodiments of the collaboration engine may include one or more of a centralized sharer, a depth sharer, a shared preprocessor, a multi-port graphics subsystem, and a decode sharer. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computing system comprising:
a graphics processor;
a central processing unit; and
a memory including a set of instructions, which when executed by one or more of the graphics processor or the central processing unit, cause the computing system to:
determine that a view of a first user is at least partially obstructed, wherein the first user is at a first position;
identify view information associated with an area that is obstructed in the view;
identify that an object is at a position in the area based on first view data associated with a second user;
identify that the object is at the position in the area based on second view data associated with a third user;
determine that the object is stationary based on the object being identified as being at the position based on the first view data and the second view data;
store the object as part of the view information based on the object being determined to be stationary; and
provide the view information to the first user.

2. The system of claim 1 ,
wherein the second user is to view the area from a second position.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the set of instructions, which when executed by the one or more of the graphics processor or the central processing unit, cause the computing system to:
extrapolate a first perspective of the first user;
extrapolate a second perspective of the second user; and
reorient the view information from the second perspective to the first perspective.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the view information is to be a temporally delayed view.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the set of instructions, which when executed by the one or more of the graphics processor or the central processing unit, cause the computing system to:
determine depth information associated with the object based on the first and second view data.

6. An apparatus comprising:
a memory; and
logic communicatively coupled to the memory, wherein the logic is implemented at least partly in one or more of configurable logic or fixed-functionality logic hardware, the logic communicatively coupled to the memory to:
determine that a view of a first user is at least partially obstructed, wherein the first user is at a first position;
identify view information associated with an area that is obstructed in the view;
identify that an object is at a position in the area based on first view data associated with a second user;
identify that the object is at the position in the area based on second view data associated with a third user;
determine that the object is stationary based on the object being identified as being at the position based on the first view data and the second view data;
store the object as part of the view information based on the object being determined to be stationary; and
provide the view information to the first user.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 ,
wherein the second user is to view the area from a second position.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the logic communicatively coupled to the memory is to:
extrapolate a first perspective of the first user;
extrapolate a second perspective of the second user; and
reorient the view information from the second perspective to the first perspective.

9. The apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the view information is to be a temporally delayed view.

10. The apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the logic communicatively coupled to the memory is to:
determine depth information associated with the object based on the first and second view data.

11. At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions, which when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to:
determine that a view of a first user is at least partially obstructed, wherein the first user is at a first position;
identify view information associated with an area that is obstructed in the view;
identify that an object is at a position in the area based on first view data associated with a second user;
identify that the object is at the position in the area based on second view data associated with a third user;
determine that the object is stationary based on the object being identified as being at the position based on the first view data and the second view data;
store the object as part of the view information based on the object being determined to be stationary; and
provide the view information to the first user.

12. The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11 ,
wherein the second user is to view the area from a second position.

13. The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the computing device to:
extrapolate a first perspective of the first user;
extrapolate a second perspective of the second user; and
reorient the view information from the second perspective to the first perspective.

14. The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the view information is to be a temporally delayed view.

15. The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the computing device to:
determine depth information associated with the object based on the first and second view data.

16. A method comprising:
determining that a view of a first user is at least partially obstructed, wherein the first user is at a first position;
identifying view information associated with an area that is obstructed in the view;
identifying that an object is at a position in the area based on first view data associated with a second user;
identifying that the object is at the position in the area based on second view data associated with a third user;
determining that the object is stationary based on the object being identified as being at the position based on the first view data and the second view data;
storing the object as part of the view information based on the object being determined to be stationary; and
providing the view information to the first user.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the second user is viewing the area from a second position.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising:
extrapolating a first perspective of the first user;
extrapolating a second perspective of the second user; and
reorienting the view information from the second perspective to the first perspective.

19. The method of claim 17 , wherein the view information is a temporally delayed view.

20. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:
determining depth information associated with the object based on the first and second view data.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Vembar Deepak S
• Kuwahara Atsuo
• Sakthivel Chandrasekaran
• Venkataraman Radhakrishnan
• Insko Brent E
• Kalra Anupreet S
• Labbe Hugues
• Koker Altug
• Apodaca Michael
• Xiao Kai
• Boles Jeffery S
• Lake Adam T
• Cimini David M
• Vembu Balaji
• Ould-Ahmed-Vall Elmoustapha
• Kwiatkowski Jacek
• Laws Philip R
• Shah Ankur N
• Appu Abhishek R
• Ray Joydeep
• Fu Wenyin
• Kaburlasos Nikos
• Surti Prasoonkumar
• Borole Bhushan M

Classifications

• G09G2360/125

  using unified memory architecture [UMA] · CPC title

• G09G5/363

  Graphics controllers · CPC title

• G09G2360/08

  Power processing, i.e. workload management for processors involved in display operations, such as CPUs or GPUs · CPC title

• G09G2370/02

  Networking aspects · CPC title

• G09G3/003

  to produce spatial visual effects · CPC title