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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
May. 27, 2015
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Jaedon Lee, Yongin-si, KR;
Youngsam Shin, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Wonjong Lee, Seoul, KR;
Seokjoong Hwang, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 2210/12 (2013.01); G06T 2210/52 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of traversing an acceleration structure (AS) in a ray tracing system includes obtaining information about child nodes of a target node included in the AS; determining whether each of the child nodes intersects a ray based on the obtained information; determining a next target node among at least one child node that intersects the ray; and performing an operation corresponding to a type of the determined next target node.