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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2023
Applicant:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Inventor:
Richard Edward Bruce, Great Shelford, GB;
Assignee:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2011.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 2210/52 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclose herein is a method of operating a graphics processor when performing ray tracing. During a traversal of the nodes of an acceleration data structure, when a parent node that encompasses multiple child node volumes is encountered, a group of rays is tested against the child node volumes to determine which child nodes may need to be visited next. Rather than simply visiting the nodes based on the order in which they are found to be interested, the node traversal order is instead determined based on the group of rays.