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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2021
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Colin Jonathan Hughes, London, GB;
Maurizio Cerrato, London, GB;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method of rendering an image includes generating a virtual scene comprising a set of virtual resources, the virtual resources being virtual objects and/or virtual light sources; pre-processing the virtual scene by ray-tracing with respect to a virtual camera position to detect one or more virtual resources not required for ray-tracing rendering of at least an aspect of rendering the image; and rendering the image by a ray-tracing process from the virtual camera position, the ray-tracing process being configured to omit ray-tracing for at least a given aspect of the image, with respect to the one or more virtual resources not required for ray-tracing rendering of at least the given aspect of the image.