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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2024
Applicant:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Richard Edward Bruce, Great Shelford, GB;
William Robert Stoye, Cambridge, GB;
Jakob Axel Fries, Lund, SE;
Assignee:
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2011.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 2210/21 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of operating a graphics processor to perform ray tracing. The graphics processor includes a ray tracing circuit that can be messaged by the graphics processor's programmable execution unit during execution of a program to perform a respective traversal of the at least one ray tracing acceleration data structure to be traversed for that ray. The ray tracing circuit when returning rays' processing to the programmable execution unit is operable to group rays together for continued execution by the programmable execution unit as a respective thread group.