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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022

Filed:

May. 22, 2020
Applicant:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nuno Raposo Subtil, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Manuel Kraemer, Santa Cara, CA (US);

Alexey Panteleev, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Mike Songy, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2011.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 3/40 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure provides a renderer and a rendering process employing ray tracing and image-space filtering that interleaves the pixels of a frame into partial image fields and corresponding reduced-resolution images that are individually processed in parallel. In one example, the renderer includes: (1) an interface configured to receive scene information for rendering a full frame, and (2) a graphics processing system, coupled to the interface, configured to separate pixels of the full frame into different partial image fields that each include a unique set of interleaved pixels, render reduced-resolution images of the full frame by ray tracing the different partial image fields in parallel, independently apply image-space filtering to the reduced-resolution images in parallel, and merge the reduced-resolution images to provide a full rendered frame.


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