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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2022
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Karol Szerszen, Hillsboro, CA (US);
Prasoonkumar Surti, Folsom, CA (US);
Gabor Liktor, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karthik Vaidyanathan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sven Woop, Voelklingen, DE;
Assignee:
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 15/06 (2011.01); G06T 15/08 (2011.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 17/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 15/08 (2013.01); G06T 17/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for grouping rays based on quantized ray directions. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: An apparatus comprising: a ray generator to generate a plurality of rays; ray direction evaluation circuitry/logic to generate approximate ray direction data for each of the plurality of rays; ray sorting circuitry/logic to sort the rays into a plurality of ray queues based, at least in part, on the approximate ray direction data.