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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2023
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Gregory Clark, Hertfordshire, GB;
Bruno Char, Hertfordshire, GB;
Imagination Technologies Limited, Kings Langley, GB;
Abstract
A computer implemented method of building an acceleration structure for use in ray tracing includes (i) assigning, in a memory, a different one or more blocks of memory to each of a plurality of threads, each of the blocks of memory comprising one or more memory locations; (ii) for each element of a plurality of elements of a scene for which nodes of the acceleration structure are to be built, assigning that element of the scene to a block of memory so as to assign that element to a thread; and (iii) building one or more nodes of the acceleration structure by processing each of the plurality of threads in parallel.