Siliconarts, Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sejong University

Korea University of Technology and Education Industry-University Cooperation Foundation

Colorzip Media, Inc.

Siliconarts Technology US Inc.

Korea University of Technology and Education Industry-university Corporation Foundation

Hyung Min Yoon

Byung In Yoo

Kyung Hwan Kim

Woo Chan Park

Tack Don Han

Hyuck Joo Kwon

Hyo Seok Seo

Hyun Gu Shin

Chang Su Lee

Byoung Ok Thi Lee

Oh Young Kwon

Chang Mug Lee

There is provided a multichip ray tracing device. The multichip ray tracing device includes a plurality of memory units; an acceleration structure division processing unit that divides an acceleration structure (AS) into a plurality of divided acceleration structures and stores each of the plurality of divided acceleration structures in a corresponding memory unit among the plurality of memory units; and a plurality of ray tracing core units connected to the plurality of memory units. Each of the plurality of ray tracing core units performs an internal ray tracing (Internal RT) operation for a corresponding divided acceleration structure and transmits corresponding ray information to a corresponding ray tracing core unit to perform an external ray tracing (External RT) operation when attempting to access a data node that is not in the corresponding divided acceleration structure in the process of the internal ray tracing operation.

Multichip ray tracing device and method

Disclosed is a buffering method in a portable ray tracing system. The buffering method includes: receiving a dynamic acceleration structure from the portable ray tracing apparatus during the process for performing a graphics process; packaging a dynamic object updated by the user terminal with the dynamic acceleration structure and sequentially storing the packaged dynamic object into a buffer area formed in a system memory of the user terminal; when disconnection of the physical connection is detected, performing ray tracing using a graphics processor of the user terminal by loading packaging data from the buffer area and determining a recovery point.

Buffering method in portable ray tracing system

Disclosed is a graphics processing apparatus based on hybrid GPU architecture. The graphics processing apparatus includes: an acceleration structure generation unit generating an acceleration structure based on geometry data related to a 3D scene; a ray tracing unit performing ray tracing based on the acceleration structure; and a rasterization unit including a sharing interface for shader-sharing with the ray tracing unit and performing rasterization rendering by sharing shading information generated from a result of the ray tracing.

Graphics processing apparatus based on hybrid GPU architecture

Disclosed is a portable ray tracing apparatus. The apparatus includes: a physical connection unit providing a physical connection to a connection port of a user terminal; a graphic data area detecting unit detecting a graphic data area which is allocated to a system memory of the user terminal if the physical connection is provided and which employs an acceleration structure for graphics processes agreed upon in advance; and a graphic processor operating unit synchronizing the graphic data area with an internal memory and operating a graphic processor of the user terminal. Therefore, the present invention performs ray tracing by being physically connected to a computing device and thereby shares graphics processing.

Portable ray tracing apparatus

Disclosed is a ray tracing device using MIMD based T&I scheduling, including: a ray receiving unit receiving a ray generated with respect to a specific frame according to a frame progress order and storing the received ray in a ray buffer; a ray scheduling unit allocating a ray provided by the ray buffer to one of a plurality of T&I pipelines, each of which including an input and output buffers; a traversal/intersection test performing unit performing a traversal/intersection test on an allocated ray in a parallel fashion by using each of the plurality of T&I pipelines and determining a triangle intersecting the allocated ray; and a test result ordering unit receiving information about the triangle from the plurality of T&I pipelines as a test result, storing the received test result in a test buffer, and re-arranging the received test result according to a frame progress order.

Ray tracing device using MIMD based T and I scheduling

A network based real-time virtual reality input/output system and method for a heterogeneous environment are provided. The virtual reality input/output system transfers data received from a plurality of virtual reality input device and a request from a plurality of virtual reality applications to at least one corresponding virtual reality data generator among a plurality of virtual reality data generators, and transfers virtual reality data, which is generated by processing data corresponding to the request among the received data by the at least one corresponding virtual reality data generator, to the virtual reality application which transmits the request.

Network based real-time virtual reality input/output system and method for heterogeneous environment

A ray tracing core comprises a ray tracing unit (RTU), a control unit, and a tree build unit (TBU). The ray tracing unit performs ray tracing based on a spatial partitioning structure. The control unit calculates the degree of complexity of the spatial partitioning structure by monitoring the load state of the ray tracing unit. The tree build unit builds the spatial partitioning structure having the degree of complexity which is calculated. The load state is determined based on a frame rate which is processed in the pertinent unit. The spatial partitioning structure applies a K-dimensional tree. For example, the degree of complexity can be modified according to either the maximum primitive number of a leaf node with respect to a K-dimensional tree structure or a tree depth.

Ray tracing core and method for processing ray tracing

Provided is a parallel operation processing apparatus and method. The parallel operation processing apparatus and method may generate an interpolated matrix with respect to a character included in each of a current frame and a next frame using a matrix corresponding to each of the current frame and the next frame generated, based on joint information corresponding to a plurality of joints included in the character. Also, the parallel operation processing apparatus and method may display an interpolated frame using the interpolated matrix.

Parallel operation processing apparatus and method

A hybrid tag interface system and an interfacing method therefor are provided. First codes for an object from a wireless recognition tag containing the first codes are received through wireless communication, a second code for the object from an image tag expressing the second code by using a 1- or 2-dimensional image is read through optical contact, and then information on the object is calculated from the first codes and the second code based on their correlation. By doing so, automatic recognition and visibility can be maximized using the hybrid tag combining a wireless recognition tag and an image tag.

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Hyung Min Yoon