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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2015
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/50 (2011.01); G06T 15/55 (2011.01); G06T 15/80 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/55 (2013.01); G06T 15/80 (2013.01); G06T 2215/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A generator of an image processing apparatus may generate a light transport map (LTM) by sampling depth information from a light to an object based on a transparency of the object, wherein the LTM may be used to compute a visibility of the light with respect to a first point to be rendered.