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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2020
Applicant:
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Rosario Leonardi, London, GB;
Assignee:
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for performing a raytracing process, the system comprising a bounding volume hierarchy, BVH, identification unit operable to identify a BVH structure for use in generating images of a virtual environment, the BVH structure comprising information about one or more surfaces within the virtual environment, a BVH selection unit operable to discard one or more elements of the BVH structure in dependence upon a direction of an incident ray, and a raytracing unit operable to perform a raytracing process using the remaining BVH elements.