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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2013
Applicants:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Pictures Technologies, Inc., Culver City, CA (US);
Inventor:
Robert B. Engle, Encino, CA (US);
Assignees:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
SONY PICTURES TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Culver City, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/60 (2006.01); G06T 15/06 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
Rendering a 3-D scene using bent ray, including; tracing a path of the bent ray from a camera to an object for each pixel in a view window, wherein the amount of bending in the bent ray is a function of the distance from the camera; rendering the each, pixel in the view window until all pixels in the view window have been rendered; and outputting the rendered view window as a rendered 3-D scene. Keywords include bent rays and object depth.