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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2014
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Juraj Obert, Orlando, FL (US);
Vineet Goel, La Jolla, CA (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2011.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 15/04 (2011.01); G06T 15/80 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 15/04 (2013.01); G06T 15/80 (2013.01); G06T 2200/28 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for ray tracing may include using texture pipeline hardware of a GPU to perform ray intersection testing for a first ray and a first shape. Using the texture pipeline hardware to perform ray intersection testing may include calculating a plurality of dot products with the texture pipeline hardware, and determining whether the first ray intersects the first shape based on the plurality of dot products.