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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Martin Jon Irwin Fuller, Gaydon, GB;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A ray trace operation includes tracing a ray from an origin point in accordance with a ray path into a virtual environment (where the virtual environment comprises one or more virtual objects defined by one or more object components) and determining an intersected object component of the one or more object components that the ray intersects with. Determining the intersected object component comprises accessing (i) ray trace temporal coherence data based upon a preceding ray trace operation that temporally precedes the ray trace operation or (ii) ray trace spatial coherence data based upon a spatially proximate ray trace operation.