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US 7,583,262 B2Granted
Optimization of time-critical software components for real-time interactive applications
OwnerThomas Yehinventor
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Abstract
A method for optimizing the performance of a time-critical computation component for a real-time interactive application includes the use of an algorithm having a precise logical thread and at least one fast estimation logical thread. The computation errors generated by the fast estimation thread are imperceptible by humans and are frame specific such that the errors are corrected within a graphical frame's time by the data from the precise logical thread.
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A method for a real-time interactive physics-based simulation, the method comprising:
- executing a precise logical thread, wherein said precise logical thread computes a full set of data for everything that occurs in each graphical frame of said physics-based simulation with accuracy and stability;
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- executing at least one fast estimation logical thread, wherein said at least one fast estimation logical thread produces either estimated or partial data only to enable each graphical frame of said physics-based simulation to appear realistic,
- wherein the precise logical thread completes its evaluation at an end of a computation cycle, and the at least one fast estimation logical thread completes its evaluation prior to the end of the computation cycle.
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