Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jae-Don Lee

Jong-Pil Son

Soo-Jung Ryu

Young-sam Shin

Won-Jong Lee

Min-Kyu Jeong

Min-Young Son

Sang-won Ha

Kyoung-ho Kang

Jeong-joon Yoo

Jung-Keun Park

Keun-soo Yim

Chae-Seok Im

Woon-gee Kim

Kwon-Taek Kwon

Jung-keun Park

Young-Sam Shin

Keun-Soo Yim

Jeong-Joon Yoo

A tile-based rendering method includes receiving a drawcall, determining a location of primitives in a frame based on the drawcall, dividing the frame into a plurality of tiles, and rendering the tiles, wherein the rendering includes determining a rendering order of the tiles based on primitives included in the tiles, and rendering the tiles according to the rendering order. A graphics processing unit (GPU) is configured to perform the tile-based rendering method, and may include a memory, a processor including at least one core and at least one cache. The GPU may execute a tile-based graphics pipeline for tile-based rendering of images, and allocate tiles including identical primitives to a core.

Tile-based rendering method and apparatus

A method of managing memory includes generating a page pool by aligning a plurality of pages of a memory; when a request to store first data is received, allocating a destination page corresponding to the first data using a page pool; and updating a page table using information about the allocated destination page.

Method and apparatus for managing memory

A method and a graphics processing apparatus for processing texture in a graphics pipeline determine a rendering level of a dynamic texture based on usage information of a target object and render the target object by texturing the target object with the dynamic texture rendered based on the rendering level. The graphics processing apparatus includes at least one cache memory, and at least one processor configured to: perform geometry processing of a dynamic texture to be mapped onto a target object, determine a rendering level of the dynamic texture based on usage information of the target object obtained by the geometry processing of the target object, render the dynamic texture based on the determined rendering level, and render the target object by texturing the target object with the rendered dynamic texture.

Graphics processing apparatus and method of processing texture in graphics pipeline

A ray tracing method includes determining whether acceleration structure traversal data of a previous ray similar to a received ray is stored in a traversal cache, and reading the stored acceleration structure traversal data, and performing image rendering based on the read acceleration structure traversal data, based on a result of the determining.

Ray tracing method and apparatus

An apparatus and a method of using an acceleration structure in ray tracing, and a method of ray tracing are provided. The method involves setting a bit stack value of a level of an acceleration structure, moving to a child node among the ray-crossing child nodes and setting a route value of a corresponding level of the acceleration structure, and determining a pop level based on one or more bit stack values.

Apparatus and method of using acceleration structure in ray tracing

Provided is a method of accelerating ray tracing. The method includes extracting characteristics of an input ray at a ray scanner, determining a ray with characteristics similar to that of the input ray based on comparing characteristics of the input ray with characteristics of rays used in previous renderings, and conducting a set up for ray tracing of the input ray based on a ray tracing of the determined ray.

Method and apparatus for accelerating ray tracing

Provided are methods and apparatuses of performing ray tracing for rendering an image. The method includes performing, at a ray tracing core, a first intersection test based on a traversal of an acceleration structure using a generated primary ray, generating at least one type of secondary ray based on the first intersection test, classifying the generated secondary rays and storing identification information indicating a starting point and a direction of the secondary rays, and performing a second intersection test and shading using the stored identification information.

Method and apparatus for performing ray tracing for rendering image

A method, medium and apparatus for storing and restoring a register context for a fast context switching between tasks is disclosed. The method, medium and apparatus may improve overall operating speed of a system by increasing the speed of context switching. The method may include adding an update code for updating information of live registers to a task file that includes a code of a task to perform a specified function, converting the task file having the update code added thereto into a run file, updating the information of the live registers with the update code during running of the task using the run file, and storing a live register context according to the updated information of the registers.

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Yongin-si, South Korea

Jae-Don Lee