Collaborative multi-user virtual reality

US10430147B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

• Deepak S. Vembar · Portland, US
• Atsuo Kuwahara · Portland, US
• Chandrasekaran Sakthivel · Cupertino, US
• Radhakrishnan Venkataraman · Folsom, US
• Brent Insko · Portland, US
• Anupreet S. Kalra · Folsom, US
• Hugues Labbe · Folsom, US
• Altug Koker · Cameron Park, US
• Michael Apodaca · Folsom, US
• Kai Xiao · Lo Wu, CN
• Jeffery S. Boles · Folsom, US
• Adam T. Lake · Portland, US
• David M. Cimini · Folsom, US
• Balaji Vembu · Folsom, US
• Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall · Chandler, US
• Jacek Kwiatkowski · Santa Clara, US
• Philip R. Laws · Santa Clara, US
• Ankur N. Shah · Folsom, US
• Abhishek R. Appu · Cameron Park, US
• Joydeep Ray · Folsom, US
• Wenyin Fu · Folsom, US
• Nikos Kaburlasos · Lincoln, US
• Prasoonkumar Surti · Folsom, US
• Bhushan M. Borole · Rancho Cordova, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 17, 2017
• Grant date: Oct 1, 2019
• Expiry date: Nov 11, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/131
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

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.