At least one processor may organize a plurality of primitives in a hierarchical data structure.
The at least one processor may rasterize a plurality of bounding volumes associated with …

Provided are an apparatus and method for generating an acceleration structure in a ray
tracing system. The method of generating an acceleration structure includes splitting, at an …

(57) ABSTRACT A moving or defocused geometry may be stochastically ren dered by
grouping a plurality of primitives of that geometry in a hierarchical data structure. Visible …

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image analysis - Google Patents Method for image analysis Download PDF Info Publication …

Methods and systems disclosed improve the efficiency of ray tracing. In one aspect, a
method of ray tracing in a digital representation of a scene includes segmenting the scene …

The present invention teaches a real-time hybrid ray tracing method for non-planar specular
reflections. The high complexity of a non-planar surface is reduced to low complexity of …

In a ray tracer, a cache for streaming workloads groups ray requests for coherent successive
bounding volume hierarchy traversal operations by sending common data down an attached …

Ray tracing a three-dimensional scene using a grid. One example embodiment is a method
for ray tracing a three-dimensional scene using a grid. In this example method, the three …

Various embodiments are disclosed for accelerating computations using field programmable
gate arrays (FPGA). Various tree traversal techniques, architectures, and hardware …

The present disclosure describes a new global illumination ray tracing, concentrated at
augmented objects of virtual or augmented reality, utilizing the graphics pipeline. Secondary …