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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2020
Lucasfilm Entertainment Company Ltd., San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas Walker, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Weitzberg, Greenbrae, CA (US);
André Mazzone, Mill Valley, CA (US);
LUCASFILM ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY LTD, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of rendering an image includes receiving information of a virtual camera, including a camera position and a camera orientation defining a virtual screen; receiving information of a target screen, including a target screen position and a target screen orientation defining a plurality of pixels, each respective pixel corresponding to a respective UV coordinate on the target screen; for each respective pixel of the target screen: determining a respective XY coordinate of a corresponding point on the virtual screen based on the camera position, the camera orientation, the target screen position, the target screen orientation, and the respective UV coordinate; tracing one or more rays from the virtual camera through the corresponding point on the virtual screen toward a virtual scene; and estimating a respective color value for the respective pixel based on incoming light from virtual objects in the virtual scene that intersect the one or more rays.