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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2021
Applicant:
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Inventor:
Alistair Goudie, Hemel Hempstead, GB;
Assignee:
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06T 15/06 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/485 (2013.01); G06F 9/5016 (2013.01); G06T 15/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of processing rays in a ray tracing system, the method comprising: allocating a block of memory for a task on a per-task basis; processing rays in the task causing at least one child ray to be emitted; writing intermediate data for the task to said block of memory; suspending processing of the task; and when the task is ready to resume, reading intermediate data for the task from the block of memory, and resuming the processing of the task.