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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2012
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Guillaume A. Carbonneau, Alameda, CA (US);
Vincent Dumont, San Francisco, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided that utilizes a parallel processing system to determine whether different geometries intersect each tile in a map hierarchy. The method receives a description of a geometry and an identification of a tile in a tile tree. The method utilizes an available processing unit to determine whether the geometry intersects the tile. When the geometry intersects the tile and the tile has child tiles, the method stores several task descriptions that can be assigned to any processing units in the parallel processing system. Each task description includes the description of the portion of the geometry that overlaps the tile and an identification of one of the child tiles of the tile. The method then assigns each of the tasks to an available processing unit to continue down the tree hierarchy to determine whether each child tile intersects a portion of the geometry.