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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2021
Applicant:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Christopher Ryan Wyman, Redmond, WA (US);
Robert Anthony Alfieri, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Woodside, CA (US);
Peter Schuyler Shirley, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/50 (2011.01); G06T 1/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/50 (2013.01); G06T 1/60 (2013.01);
Abstract
Devices, systems, and techniques to incorporate lighting effects into computer-generated graphics. In at least one embodiment, a virtual scene comprising a plurality of lights is rendered by randomly sampling a set of lights from among the plurality of lights prior to rendering a frame of graphics. A subset of the set of lights is selected and used to render pixels within one or more portions of the frame.