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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2013
Applicant:
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Igor Sevastiyanov, San Jose, CA (US);
Barbara Wolfers, Berlin, DE;
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2011.01); G06T 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G06T 9/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 9/001 (2013.01); G06T 9/40 (2013.01); G06T 17/005 (2013.01); G06T 2210/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product for compressing a bounding volume hierarchy is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a bounding volume hierarchy and encoding the bounding volume hierarchy to generate an encoded bounding volume hierarchy, wherein each node in the encoded bounding volume hierarchy indicates whether the node inherits zero or more values from a parent node. The bounding volume hierarchy includes a plurality of nodes, each node in the plurality of nodes is associated with a bounding volume.