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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2016
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of generating an acceleration structure for ray tracing, the method including, using a processor, dividing a three-dimensional (3D) space including primitives into bounding boxes, obtaining position information of where the bounding boxes overlapping each other, and generating an acceleration structure representing the position information and an inclusion relation between the bounding boxes. Also disclosed is a related method of traversing an acceleration structure.