Granted Patent B2

US 12,423,409 · App. 17/958,744 · Granted Sep 23, 2025

Inventors: Evangelos Kokkevis (Mountain View, CA); Matthew Papakipos (Palo Alto, CA); David C. Sehr (Cupertino, CA)

Assignee: GOOGLE LLC

G06F21/53G06F9/44526G06F9/44589G06F21/51G06F21/572G06F2221/034H04L67/02H04L67/34

Abstract

Claims (23)

1. A system comprising:

a three-dimensional (3D) application that executes in a web browser, the 3D application providing graphics rendering and animation capabilities to a user of the 3D application;

a first plugin to provide the 3D application with real-time animation of objects within the 3D application;

a central processing unit (CPU) in communication with the first plugin;

a second plugin configured to render graphics for the 3D application;

a graphics processing unit (GPU) in communication with the second plugin; and

a shared memory in communication with the first plugin and the second plugin, the shared memory including one or more inter-module communication (IMC) buffers.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first plugin includes a physics engine including native code that executes on the CPU within a secure runtime environment provided by the first plugin.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the second plugin includes a rendering engine configured to communicate with the GPU to provide graphics hardware acceleration by performing calculations related to graphics rendering.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the physics engine corresponds to a native control module provided by the 3D application that is executed within a secure runtime environment provided by the first plugin within constraints set by the secure run time environment.

5. The system of claim 3 , wherein data passes between the first plugin and the second plugin using the shared memory.

6. The system of claim 3 , wherein the first plugin and the second plugin interface directly with one another to synchronize animation and rendering of a graphics model.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the physics engine is configured to read from the IMC buffers to create a physics model corresponding to the graphics model.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the physics engine is further configured to perform a series of physics simulation calculations that update the physics model.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the 3D application is a 3D computer game or a computer-aided design (CAD) application.

10. A system comprising:

a first plugin to provide a three-dimensional (3D) application with real-time animation of objects within the 3D application;

a second plugin configured to render graphics for the 3D application;

a shared memory in communication with the first plugin and the second plugin, wherein, the shared memory includes one or more inter-module communication (IMC) buffers;

a central processing unit (CPU) in communication with the first plugin; and

a graphics processing unit (GPU) in communication with the second plugin.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the first plugin includes a physics engine including native code that executes on the CPU within a secure runtime environment provided by the first plugin.

12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the second plugin includes a rendering engine configured to communicate with the GPU to provide graphics hardware acceleration by performing calculations related to graphics rendering.

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