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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
May. 13, 2014
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 2200/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A ray tracing method includes determining whether acceleration structure traversal data of a previous ray similar to a received ray is stored in a traversal cache, and reading the stored acceleration structure traversal data, and performing image rendering based on the read acceleration structure traversal data, based on a result of the determining.