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US 12,646,476 B2Granted
Performing computing operations using a collective property of electromagnetic energy observed through transparent displays background
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorTeresa A. Nick
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Abstract
A computing system includes a plurality of processing units and a plurality of emitters. Each emitter is coupled to at least one of the plurality of processing units and is configured to display an electromagnetic signal at a location of the emitter based on instructions from an associated processing unit. The computing system further includes an electromagnetic sensor configured to detect a collective electromagnetic signal from the plurality of emitters.
Claims20
A computing system comprising:
- a plurality of processing units including a first processing unit and a second processing unit;
- a set of emitters including a first subset of one or more emitters and a second subset of one or more emitters, wherein the first processing unit is coupled to the first subset of one or more emitters for displaying a first encoded electromagnetic signal at the first subset of one or more emitters based on instructions from the first processing unit, and the second processing unit is coupled to the second subset of one or more emitters for displaying a second encoded electromagnetic signal at the second subset of one or more emitters based on instructions from the second processing unit;
- wherein the first processing unit is programmed to encode the first encoded electromagnetic signal based on a first value and the second processing unit is programmed to encode the second encoded electromagnetic signal based on a second value;
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- at least one electromagnetic sensor configured to detect a collective electromagnetic signal from the set of emitters that is cumulative of the first encoded electromagnetic signal and the second encoded electromagnetic signal, wherein the collective electromagnetic signal is decodable into a collective value inclusive of the first value and the second value.
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A method for performing a collective operation, comprising:
- receiving a first value and a second value for the collective operation;
- encoding the first value with an electromagnetic encoding scheme into a first encoded electromagnetic signal representing the first value;
- displaying, with a first emitter coupled to a first processor, the first encoded electromagnetic signal at a first location of the first emitter based on instructions from the first processor;
- encoding the second value with the electromagnetic encoding scheme into a second encoded electromagnetic signal representing the second value;
- displaying, with a second emitter coupled to a second processor, the second encoded electromagnetic signal at a second location of the second emitter based on instructions from the second processor;
- detecting, with an electromagnetic sensor, a collective electromagnetic signal cumulative of the first encoded electromagnetic signal displayed by the first emitter and the second encoded electromagnetic signal displayed by the second emitter;
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- based on the detected collective electromagnetic signal, determining a cumulative value inclusive of the first value and of the second value.
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A system, comprising:
- a plurality of emitters including a first set of one or more emitters coupled to a first processor and a second set of one or more emitters coupled to a second processor;
- an electromagnetic sensor;
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- instructions stored in memory, the instructions being executable by the first processor and second processor to:
- encode a first set of activations for a first set of neurons of an artificial intelligence (AI) model into a first set of bit sequences;
- display, with the first set of one or more emitters, a first set of electromagnetic signals at corresponding locations of the first set of one or more emitters based on the first set of bit sequences;
- encode a second set of activations for a second set of neurons of the AI model into a second set of bit sequences;
- display, with the second set of one or more emitters, a second set of electromagnetic signals at corresponding locations of the second set of one or more emitters based on the second set of bit sequences;
- detect, with the electromagnetic sensor, a set of collective electromagnetic signals based on the first set of electromagnetic signals of the first set of one or more emitters and the second set of electromagnetic signals of the second set of one or more emitters, the set of collective electromagnetic signals exhibiting collective properties resulting from the first set of electromagnetic signals and the second set of electromagnetic signals;
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- transmit the set of collective electromagnetic signals to the first processor and the second processor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.