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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2020
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Carson Brownlee, Austin, TX (US);
Carsten Benthin, Voelklingen, DE;
Joshua Barczak, Timonium, MD (US);
Kai Xiao, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Apodaca, Folsom, CA (US);
Prasoonkumar Surti, Folsom, CA (US);
Thomas Raoux, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for context-aware compression. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: ray traversal/intersection circuitry to traverse rays through a hierarchical acceleration data structure to identify intersections between rays and primitives of a graphics scene; matrix compression circuitry/logic to compress hierarchical transformation matrices to generate compressed hierarchical transformation matrices by quantizing N-bit floating point data elements associated with child transforms of the hierarchical transformation matrices to variable-bit floating point numbers or integers comprising offsets from a parent transform of the child transform; and an instance processor to generate a plurality of instances of one or more base geometric objects in accordance with the compressed hierarchical transformation matrices.