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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2017
Applicant:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Enzo Catalano, Berlin, DE;
Rajko Yasui-Schoeffel, Berlin, DE;
Ken Dahm, Berlin, DE;
Nikolaus Binder, Berlin, DE;
Alexander Keller, Berlin, DE;
Assignee:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 15/06 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 15/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, a computer program, and a production renderer for accelerating a rendering process of an image are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes intercepting a first invocation of a function from a custom shader during a rendering process of an image, computing a result of the function employing a processor, and returning the result to the custom shader in response to a second invocation of the function during the rendering process.