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PETERSON LUKE T

US92 patents

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50 patents

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Asynchronous and concurrent ray tracing and rasterization rendering processes

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Systems and methods for soft shadowing in 3-D rendering

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Graphics processing using directional representations of lighting at probe positions within a scene

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Reduced acceleration structures for ray tracing systems

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Graphics processing using directional representations of lighting at probe positions within a scene

IMAGINATION TECH LTD4 citations84

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On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation with discrete production scheduling

IMAGINATION TECH LTD3 citations84

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Compacting results vectors between stages of graphics processing

IMAGINATION TECH LTD3 citations84

US10068367B2Sep 4, 2018

Asynchronous and concurrent ray tracing and rasterization rendering processes

IMAGINATION TECH LTD5 citations84

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Graphics processing using directional representations of lighting at probe positions within a scene

IMAGINATION TECH LTD5 citations84

US9633468B2Apr 25, 2017

Compacting results vectors between stages of graphics processing

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Systems and methods for soft shadowing in 3-D rendering casting multiple rays from ray origins

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Graphics processing using directional representations of lighting at probe positions within a scene

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Asynchronous and concurrent ray tracing and rasterization rendering processes

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Asynchronous and concurrent ray tracing and rasterization rendering processes

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Object illumination in hybrid rasterization and ray traced 3-D rendering

IMAGINATION TECH LTD3 citations73

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On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation

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US10083541B2Sep 25, 2018

Object illumination in hybrid rasterization and ray traced 3-D rendering

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Atomic memory update unit and methods

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Systems and methods for soft shadowing in 3-D rendering

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Importance sampling for determining a light map

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Parallel computing architecture for use with a non-greedy scheduling algorithm

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Methods and graphics processing units for determining differential data for rays of a ray bundle

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Systems and methods for 3-D scene acceleration structure creation and updating

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Systems and methods for 3-D scene acceleration structure creation and updating

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Systems and methods for 3-D scene acceleration structure creation and updating

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Reduced acceleration structures for ray tracing systems

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On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation with tile object lists

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Asynchronous and concurrent ray tracing and rasterization rendering processes

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Compressed ray direction data in a ray tracing system

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Asynchronous and concurrent ray tracing and rasterization rendering processes

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On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation with tile object lists

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Vertex processing pipeline for building reduced acceleration structures for ray tracing systems

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On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation with tile object lists

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Graphics processor with non-blocking concurrent architecture

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Atomic memory update unit and methods

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Importance sampling for determining a light map

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Hierarchy merging in computer graphics

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Systems and methods for distributed scalable ray processing

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Importance sampling for determining a light map

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PETERSON LUKE T

Patents

Asynchronous and concurrent ray tracing and rasterization rendering processes

Systems and methods for soft shadowing in 3-D rendering

Graphics processing using directional representations of lighting at probe positions within a scene

Reduced acceleration structures for ray tracing systems

Graphics processing using directional representations of lighting at probe positions within a scene

On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation with discrete production scheduling

Compacting results vectors between stages of graphics processing

Asynchronous and concurrent ray tracing and rasterization rendering processes

Graphics processing using directional representations of lighting at probe positions within a scene

Compacting results vectors between stages of graphics processing

Systems and methods for soft shadowing in 3-D rendering casting multiple rays from ray origins

Foveated rendering

Systems and methods for distributed scalable ray processing

Multiple precision level intersection testing in a ray tracing system

Graphics processing using directional representations of lighting at probe positions within a scene

Asynchronous and concurrent ray tracing and rasterization rendering processes

Asynchronous and concurrent ray tracing and rasterization rendering processes

Object illumination in hybrid rasterization and ray traced 3-D rendering

On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation

Object illumination in hybrid rasterization and ray traced 3-D rendering

Atomic memory update unit and methods

Systems and methods for soft shadowing in 3-D rendering

Importance sampling for determining a light map

Parallel computing architecture for use with a non-greedy scheduling algorithm

Methods and graphics processing units for determining differential data for rays of a ray bundle

Systems and methods for 3-D scene acceleration structure creation and updating

Systems and methods for 3-D scene acceleration structure creation and updating

Systems and methods for 3-D scene acceleration structure creation and updating

Reduced acceleration structures for ray tracing systems

On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation with tile object lists

Asynchronous and concurrent ray tracing and rasterization rendering processes

Compressed ray direction data in a ray tracing system

Asynchronous and concurrent ray tracing and rasterization rendering processes

On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation with tile object lists

Vertex processing pipeline for building reduced acceleration structures for ray tracing systems

On demand geometry and acceleration structure creation with tile object lists

Graphics processor with non-blocking concurrent architecture

Atomic memory update unit and methods

Importance sampling for determining a light map

Hierarchy merging in computer graphics

Methods and graphics processing units for determining differential data for rays of a ray bundle

Graphics processing using directional representations of lighting at probe positions within a scene

Graphics processor with non-blocking concurrent architecture

Ray tracing in computer graphics using intersection testing at selective resolution

Systems and methods for soft shadowing in 3-D rendering casting multiple rays from ray origins

Ray tracing system architectures and methods

Object illumination in hybrid rasterization and ray traced 3-D rendering

Systems and methods for distributed scalable ray processing

Intersection testing in a ray tracing system using multiple ray bundle intersection tests

Importance sampling for determining a light map