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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2015
Lei Yang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Liu Ren, Cupertino, CA (US);
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method for rendering shadows in a 3D virtual environment includes generating a depth rasterization map corresponding to a plurality of objects in a three-dimensional virtual environment and a shadow interval map with reference to the depth map and a predetermined path of a light source in the environment that casts light onto at least one object in the plurality of objects that generates a shadow in the three-dimensional virtual environment with a server computing device. The method includes transmitting the shadow interval map from the server to a client and generating, with a processor in the client, a graphical depiction of the virtual environment including at least one shadow generated with reference to the shadow interval map, the at least one shadow corresponding to the light source and the plurality of objects in the virtual environment.