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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2016
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventor:
David R. Baldwin, Weybridge, GB;
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/50 (2011.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 15/06 (2011.01); G06T 15/80 (2011.01); G06T 15/40 (2011.01); G06T 11/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/506 (2013.01); G06T 11/40 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 15/80 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for sampling pattern generation in a ray tracing architecture. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises: a ray generation circuit to generate a ray stream from one or more image tiles; and a sample pattern generation circuit to generate samples for rays in the ray stream, the samples generated to exhibit at least some randomness across pixels of a given frame but be repeatable across multiple frames.