Rendering calculation processing status monitoring program, and storage medium, apparatus, and method therefor

• US 7,103,658 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2001
• Issued: 09/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Awaji, Tetsuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Caldwell, Andrew
• Assistant Examiner(s): WILLETT, STEPHAN F
• Application Number:
  US10/029,801
• Publication Number:
  US 20030055904A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,709 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224, 702/182, 702/183, 702/186, 700/26, 714/38, 714/57
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/00 3D [Three Dimensional] image rendering

Abstract

Information on a calculation progress status output based on rendering software is managed in an information record file. At the same time, identification information from a user that shows a desirable output processing is managed. When a rendering processing in the same rendering file has been calculated again by changing only a specific parameter, this processing is compared with the past processing transition that has produced a desirable processing result. Based on this, a satisfactory or non-satisfactory result of execution is decided. When there is a problem, this is notified to the user by electronic mail.

Claims

1. A computer-readable recording medium storing a computer readable program to be executed by a computer for monitoring a processing status of a user-requested job of a rendering calculation processing, wherein the program comprises:

storing information on the rendering calculation processing of a rendering file that is performed with varying a plurality of parameters, the information including influencing characteristics that each parameter gives influence to the job on a processing transition of a processing example that is desirable for the user;

obtaining influencing characteristics that each parameter gives influence to the job on a processing transition of a current rendering processing;

comparing the thus obtained influencing characteristics on the processing transition with the influence characteristics on the processing transition of the processing example for each parameter;

deciding whether the job is a processing suitable for the user during the execution of the job processing based on a predetermined rule; and

notifying to the user that the job is not a suitable processing, when the job is decided not to be a processing suitable for the user;

wherein when the job has been decided as not suitable, a difference in the influencing characteristics of each parameter between the current rendering processing and the processing example is determined, and a parameter set with a greatest difference in value of the influencing characteristics is specified as a candidate parameter for correcting a set value,

wherein the influencing characteristics include an average processing time for processing a predetermined number of frames for each parameter,

wherein the influencing characteristics include whether there is an increase or a decrease in the processing time of each frame with respect to a processing time of an immediately preceding frame, for each parameter, and

wherein the user specifies the processing example that is desirable for the user, from among jobs that have been executed in the past.

2. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein at the time of comparing the job with the processing example that is desirable for the user, a reference case is prepared based on a plurality of the previously storedcases, and the job to be decided is compared with this reference case.

3. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein when the monitoring unit has specified the candidate parameter, the notification unit notifies the candidate parameter to the user.

4. The computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the influence characteristic are ratios of absolute values of differences between a current value and an average value to variance.

5. A rendering calculation processing status monitoring apparatus for monitoring a processing status of a user-requested job of a rendering calculation processing for processing a plurality of frames, the apparatus comprising:

a storing unit which stores information on the rendering calculation processing of a rendering file that is performed with varying a plurality of parameters, the information including influence characteristics that each parameter gives to the job on a processing transition of a processing example that is desirable for the user;

a monitoring unit which obtains influencing characteristics that each parameter gives influence to the job on a processing transition of a current rendering processing and compares the thus obtained influencing characteristics on the processing transition with the influence characteristics on the processing transition of the processing example for each parameter to determine whether the job is a processing suitable for the user during the execution of the job processing based on a predetermined rule stored in the storing unit; and

a notification unit which notifies to the user that the job is a processing that is not suitable for a user, when the monitoring unit has made this decision,

wherein when the job has been decided as not desirable, the monitoring unit determines a difference in the influencing characteristics of each parameter between the current rendering processing and the processing example, and specifies a parameter set with a greatest difference in value of the influencing characteristics as a candidate parameter for correcting a set value,

wherein the influencing characteristics include an average processing time for processing a predetermined number of frames for each parameter,

wherein the influencing characteristics include whether there is an increase or a decrease in the processing time of each frame with respect to a processing time of an immediately preceding frame, for each parameter, and

wherein the user specifies the processing example that is desirable for the user, from among jobs that have been executed in the past.

6. The rendering calculation processing status monitoring apparatus according to claim 5, wherein when the monitoring unit has specified the candidate parameter, the notification unit notifies the candidate parameter to the user.

7. A method of monitoring a rendering calculation process performed with respect to a job, comprising:

acquiring first characteristics relating to the rendering calculation process being carried out;

determining whether the first characteristics match with second characteristics;

outputting a notification, when it is determined at the determining that the first characteristics do not match with the second characteristics;

accumulating a plurality of first characteristics of previously performed rendering calculation processes on other jobs; and

setting the second characteristics based on the first characteristics accumulated at the accumulating, said setting including a user selecting first characteristics from among the plurality of first characteristics as the second characteristics,

wherein the job includes a plurality of frames, the rendering calculation process is performed frame by frame, and each of the first characteristics and the second characteristics includes at least one of an average processing time required to perform the rendering calculation process on a plurality of frames and a processing time required to perform the rendering calculation process on adjacent frames.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the outputting includes sending an electronic message that indicates that the first characteristics do not match with the second characteristics to a registered address.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the rendering calculation process is performed based on at least one variable parameter, and the method further comprising:

identifying a cause parameter, when it is determined at the determining that the first characteristics do not match with the second characteristics, which is a parameter that is a cause for not matching of the first characteristics with the second characteristics; and

outputting the cause parameter.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the outputting includes sending an electronic message that indicates that the cause parameter is a cause for not matching of the first characteristics with the second characteristics to a registered address.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the job includes plurality of frames, the rendering calculation process is performed frame by frame, each of the first characteristics and the second characteristics relate to a rendering calculation process corresponding to each frame for each parameter, and the identifying includes

monitoring the first characteristics relating to the rendering calculation process corresponding to each frame for each parameter;

and

selecting a parameter that causes the first characteristics to not change in a predetermined manner based on a result of the monitoring; and

outputting the parameter selected at the selecting as the cause parameter.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the outputting includes sending an electronic message that indicates that the cause parameter is a cause for not matching of the first characteristics with the second characteristics to a registered address.

13. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:

calculating a value of the cause parameter that will cause the first characteristics to change in a predetermined manner; and

outputting the value.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the outputting includes sending an electronic message to a registered address that indicates that the first characteristics will match with the second characteristics if the cause parameter is set to the value.