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Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 17, 2022
Applicant:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Herman Hansson Soederlund, Karlskrona, SE;

Alex Evans, London, GB;

Tomas Akenine-Moller, Lund, SE;

Assignee:

NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2011.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01);
Abstract

One embodiment of a method for rendering one or more graphics images includes tracing one or more rays through a graphics scene; computing one or more surface normals associated with intersections of the one or more rays with one or more surfaces, where computing each surface normal includes: computing a plurality of intermediate surface normals associated with a plurality of adjacent voxels of a grid, and interpolating the plurality of intermediate surface normals; and rendering one or more graphics images based on the one or more surface normals.


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Hansson Soederlund, Herman. (2025). Techniques for rendering signed distance functions (U.S. Patent No. 12254556). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12254556

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