IP Library Patent Application 18039173
Patent Application
App. No. 18/039,173

CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

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18/039,173
Abstract

A control unit controls an image processing unit that executes different types of processing. The control unit includes: a monitoring unit that monitors buffers used by each of the different types of processing executed by the image processing unit in order to transfer a task and estimates a load on the image processing unit; and a change unit that changes a processing content of processing with a lower priority among the different types of processing executed by the image processing unit to processing with a smaller load in a case where the load on the image processing unit is larger than a first threshold.

Claims (23)

1 . A control apparatus that controls a processing device that executes different types of processing,

the control apparatus comprising:

a monitoring unit, comprising one or more processors, configured to monitor a buffer used by each of the different types of processing executed by the processing device in order to transfer a task and estimates a load on the processing device; and

a change unit, comprising one or more processors, configured to change processing content of processing with a lower priority among the different types of processing executed by the processing device to processing with a smaller load in a case where the load on the processing device is larger than a first threshold.

2 . The control apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein

the change unit is configured to change a processing content of the processing executed by the processing device to processing with a larger load in a case where the load on the processing device is smaller than a second threshold.

3 . The control apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein

the processing device executes each of the different types of processing by using a GPU, and

the monitoring unit is configured to monitor the buffer and estimates a load on the GPU.

4 . The control apparatus according to claim 3 ,

wherein

the processing device connects a plurality of images together and synthesizes a wide image, and

the change unit is configured to change a processing content of processing of combining overlapping areas between the images.

5 . A control method for controlling a processing device that executes different types of processing,

the control method comprising,

by a computer,

monitoring a buffer used by each of the different types of processing executed by the processing device in order to transfer a task and estimating a load on the processing device; and

changing a processing content of processing with a lower priority among the different types of processing executed by the processing device to processing with a smaller load in a case where the load on the processing device is larger than a first threshold.

6 . A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored there on a program for causing one or more processors of a control apparatus to perform a control method for controlling a processing device that executes different types of processing, the control method comprising:

monitoring a buffer used by each of the different types of processing executed by the processing device in order to transfer a task and estimating a load on the processing device; and

changing a processing content of processing with a lower priority among the different types of processing executed by the processing device to processing with a smaller load in a case where the load on the processing device is larger than a first threshold.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 14, 2025
From: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
To: NTT, INC.
Reel/Frame 072468/0951 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 26, 2023
From: HOSHIDE, TAKAHIDE; ONO, MASATO; FUKATSU, SHINJI
To: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 063777/0809 →