Oreste Dorin Ungureanu

7161599, Jan 9, 2007

Jun 27, 2002

10/184795

Joseph S. Beda - Seattle WA, US
Gregory D. Swedberg - Bellevue WA, US
Oreste Dorin Ungureanu - Duvall WA, US
Kevin T. Gallo - Woodinville WA, US
Paul C. David - Kirkland WA, US
Matthew W. Calkins - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06T 13/00

345473, 345419, 345506

A multiple-level graphics processing system and method (e. g. , of an operating system) for providing improved graphics output including, for example, smooth animation. One such multiple-level graphics processing system comprises two components, including a tick-on-demand or slow-tick high-level component, and a fast-tick (e. g. , at the graphics hardware frame refresh rate) low-level component. In general, the high-level, less frequent component performs computationally intensive aspects of updating animation parameters and traversing scene data structures, in order to pass simplified data structures to the low-level component. The low-level component operates at a higher frequency, such as the frame refresh rate of the graphics subsystem, to process the data structures into constant output data for the graphics subsystem. The low-level processing includes interpolating any parameter intervals as necessary to obtain instantaneous values to render the scene for each frame of animation.

7548237, Jun 16, 2009

Aug 4, 2006

11/499257

Paul C. David - Kirkland WA, US
Gerhard A. Schneider - Seattle WA, US
Matthew W. Calkins - Seattle WA, US
Oreste Dorin Ungureanu - Duvall WA, US
Ashraf Michail - Redmond WA, US
Andrey E. Arsov - Sammamish WA, US
Leonardo E. Blanco - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06T 17/00

345420, 345440, 345473, 345474, 345503, 345520, 700245, 709203, 709246, 715234

A visual tree structure as specified by a program is constructed and maintained by a visual system's user interface thread. As needed, the tree structure is traversed on the UI thread, with changes compiled into change queues. A secondary rendering thread that handles animation and graphical composition takes the content from the change queues, to construct and maintain a condensed visual tree. Static visual subtrees are collapsed, leaving a condensed tree with only animated attributes such as transforms as parent nodes, such that animation data is managed on the secondary thread, with references into the visual tree. When run, the rendering thread processes the change queues, applies changes to the condensed trees, and updates the structure of the animation list as necessary by resampling animated values at their new times. Content in the condensed visual tree is then rendered and composed. Animation and a composition communication protocol are also provided.

7609280, Oct 27, 2009

Apr 10, 2006

11/279194

Sriram Subramanian - Kirkland WA, US
Leonardo E. Blanco - Redmond WA, US
Andrei Baioura - Bellevue WA, US
Oreste Dorin Ungureanu - Duvall WA, US
Sriya Sampath - Redmond WA, US
Pawel Olszta - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06T 1/00
G09G 5/00

345619, 345522, 345630

A system that provides graphics commands that represent graphics or an image, to a consuming process. The graphics commands are represented by a visual tree which includes objects and resources describing the objects. The objects and resources are communicated to a composition engine that creates an analogous composition tree that is analogous to the visual tree. The composition tree is used to render the graphics or image.

7705851, Apr 27, 2010

Oct 31, 2006

11/555040

Joseph S. Beda - Seattle WA, US
Gregory D. Swedberg - Bellevue WA, US
Oreste Dorin Ungureanu - Duvall WA, US
Kevin T. Gallo - Woodinville WA, US
Paul C. David - Kirkland WA, US
Matthew W. Calkins - Seattle WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/00

345501

A multiple-level graphics processing system and method (e. g. , of an operating system) for providing improved graphics output including, for example, smooth animation. One such multiple-level graphics processing system comprises two components, including a tick-on-demand or slow-tick high-level component, and a fast-tick (e. g. , at the graphics hardware frame refresh rate) low-level component. In general, the high-level, less frequent component performs computationally intensive aspects of updating animation parameters and traversing scene data structures, in order to pass simplified data structures to the low-level component. The low-level component operates at a higher frequency, such as the frame refresh rate of the graphics subsystem, to process the data structures into constant output data for the graphics subsystem. The low-level processing includes interpolating any parameter intervals as necessary to obtain instantaneous values to render the scene for each frame of animation.

7711840, May 4, 2010

Oct 23, 2003

10/692371

Paul C. David - Kirkland WA, US
Oreste Dorin Ungureanu - Duvall WA, US
Gregory D. Swedberg - Bellevue WA, US
Donald B. Curtis - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16
G06F 3/048

709231, 715861

A method and protocol to create and control compositions on a remote device is disclosed. The protocol allows servers and other devices to take advantage of processing capabilities of remote devices to render compositions on the remote devices, thereby increasing server scalability and leveraging the remote device processing capabilities. The protocol provides high-level command packets to communicate resource command packets and control packets to the remote device with the payload having the information needed to process the commands.

7852342, Dec 14, 2010

Oct 14, 2004

10/965701

Ivan Leichtling - Kirkland WA, US
Chenyin Zhong - Bellevue WA, US
Joy Chik - Sammamish WA, US
Gilles Khouzam - Bothell WA, US
Paul David - Kirkland WA, US
Oreste Dorin Ungureanu - Duvall WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06T 15/00
G06T 1/00

345522

A server computer hosts one or more application programs that are accessed by a client computer. Higher-level graphics commands describing graphics images are received from the application programs. The server computer determines whether the client computer is able to generate graphics using the higher-level graphics commands or generates graphics using relatively lower-level graphics commands. The server computer sends higher-level or relatively lower-level graphics commands depending on whether the client computer generates graphics using higher-level or relatively lower-level graphics commands.

20040189669, Sep 30, 2004

Mar 27, 2003

10/402322

Paul David - Kirkland WA, US
Gerhard Schneider - Seattle WA, US
Matthew Calkins - Seattle WA, US
Oreste Ungureanu - Duvall WA, US
Ashraf Michail - Redmond WA, US
Andrey Arsov - Sammamish WA, US
Leonardo Blanco - Redmond WA, US

G09G005/00
G06T013/00

345/619000, 345/473000, 345/949000

A visual tree structure as specified by a program is constructed and maintained by a visual system's user interface thread. As needed, the tree structure is traversed on the UI thread, with changes compiled into change queues. A secondary rendering thread that handles animation and graphical composition takes the content from the change queues, to construct and maintain a condensed visual tree. Static visual subtrees are collapsed, leaving a condensed tree with only animated attributes such as transforms as parent nodes, such that animation data is managed on the secondary thread, with references into the visual tree. When run, the rendering thread processes the change queues, applies changes to the condensed trees, and updates the structure of the animation list as necessary by resampling animated values at their new times. Content in the condensed visual tree is then rendered and composed. Animation and a composition communication protocol are also provided.

20060129634, Jun 15, 2006

Jul 29, 2005

11/194131

Gilles Khouzam - Bothell WA, US
Paul David - Kirkland WA, US
Oreste Ungureanu - Duvall WA, US
Adrian Secchia - Bellevue WA, US
Andrey Arsov - Sammamish WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/16

709203000

Described is the multiplexing and de-multiplexing of graphics streams, including by generating first higher-level graphics instructions from a first application program upon connecting to a client computer. A first identifier representing the first application program is associated with the first higher-level graphics instructions. Second higher-level graphics instructions are generated from a second application program, with a second identifier representing the second application program associated with the second higher-level graphics instructions. The first higher-level graphics instructions and the second higher-level graphics instructions are sent to the client computer. A server computer thus allows one or more application programs to be accessed by a client computer. The server includes a compositor that extracts higher-level graphics commands from one of the application programs, along with a remote display driver that packages the higher-level graphics commands for use by the client computer to generate graphics.