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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2007
Applicants:
Christian Lauterbach, Carrboro, NC (US);
David Patrick Luebke, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael J. Garland, Lake Elmo, MN (US);
Inventors:
Christian Lauterbach, Carrboro, NC (US);
David Patrick Luebke, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael J. Garland, Lake Elmo, MN (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A ray tracing system, method, and computer program product are provided for simultaneously traversing a hierarchy of rays and a hierarchy of objects. In operation, a hierarchy of rays and a hierarchy of objects are simultaneously traversed. Additionally, ray tracing is performed, based on the traversal.