Inventor
KARRAS TERO TAPANI
FI49 patents
Patents
49 patentsUS10025879B2Jul 17, 2018
Tree data structures based on a plurality of local coordinate systems
NVIDIA CORP50 citations98
US9582607B2Feb 28, 2017
Block-based bounding volume hierarchy
NVIDIA CORP63 citations98
US9569559B2Feb 14, 2017
Beam tracing
NVIDIA CORP67 citations98
US9552664B2Jan 24, 2017
Relative encoding for a block-based bounding volume hierarchy
NVIDIA CORP46 citations98
US11610435B2Mar 21, 2023
Generative adversarial neural network assisted video compression and broadcast
NVIDIA CORP16 citations94
US10032289B2Jul 24, 2018
Relative encoding for a block-based bounding volume hierarchy
NVIDIA CORP19 citations94
US10866990B2Dec 15, 2020
Block-based lossless compression of geometric data
NVIDIA CORP15 citations93
US11682199B2Jun 20, 2023
Style-based architecture for generative neural networks
NVIDIA CORP10 citations86
US11625613B2Apr 11, 2023
Generative adversarial neural network assisted compression and broadcast
NVIDIA CORP6 citations85
US11580395B2Feb 14, 2023
Generative adversarial neural network assisted video reconstruction
NVIDIA CORP8 citations85
US11315018B2Apr 26, 2022
Systems and methods for pruning neural networks for resource efficient inference
NVIDIA CORP11 citations85
US11250329B2Feb 15, 2022
Progressive modification of generative adversarial neural networks
NVIDIA CORP7 citations85
US10331632B2Jun 25, 2019
Bounding volume hierarchies through treelet restructuring
NVIDIA CORP7 citations84
US10242485B2Mar 26, 2019
Beam tracing
NVIDIA CORP7 citations84
US9817919B2Nov 14, 2017
Agglomerative treelet restructuring for bounding volume hierarchies
NVIDIA CORP7 citations84
US9547932B2Jan 17, 2017
Splitting bounding volumes of primitives
NVIDIA CORP12 citations84
US9448803B2Sep 20, 2016
System and method for hardware scheduling of conditional barriers and impatient barriers
NVIDIA CORP8 citations84
US9442755B2Sep 13, 2016
System and method for hardware scheduling of indexed barriers
NVIDIA CORP14 citations84
US9355492B2May 31, 2016
System, method, and computer program product for utilizing a wavefront path tracer
NVIDIA CORP6 citations79
US11861890B2Jan 2, 2024
Style-based architecture for generative neural networks
NVIDIA CORP1 citations73
US11763168B2Sep 19, 2023
Progressive modification of generative adversarial neural networks
NVIDIA CORP2 citations73
US11455790B2Sep 27, 2022
Style-based architecture for generative neural networks
NVIDIA CORP2 citations73
US9158595B2Oct 13, 2015
Hardware scheduling of ordered critical code sections
NVIDIA CORP6 citations73
US11775829B2Oct 3, 2023
Generative adversarial neural network assisted video reconstruction
NVIDIA CORP1 citations72
US11610122B2Mar 21, 2023
Generative adversarial neural network assisted reconstruction
NVIDIA CORP3 citations72
US12153783B2Nov 26, 2024
User interfaces and methods for generating a new artifact based on existing artifacts
NVIDIA CORP2 citations70
US11734890B2Aug 22, 2023
Three-dimensional model recovery from two-dimensional images
NVIDIA CORP3 citations70
US9633469B2Apr 25, 2017
Conservative rasterization of primitives using an error term
NVIDIA CORP3 citations70
US12506886B2Dec 23, 2025
Video compression using neural networks
NVIDIA CORP0 citations62
US12254410B2Mar 18, 2025
Machine learning technique for automatic modeling of multiple-valued outputs
NVIDIA CORP0 citations62
US11694072B2Jul 4, 2023
Machine learning technique for automatic modeling of multiple-valued outputs
NVIDIA CORP1 citations62
US11605217B2Mar 14, 2023
Style-based architecture for generative neural networks
NVIDIA CORP0 citations62
US11494879B2Nov 8, 2022
Convolutional blind-spot architectures and bayesian image restoration
NVIDIA CORP0 citations62
US12321825B2Jun 3, 2025
Training neural networks with limited data using invertible augmentation operators
NVIDIA CORP0 citations61
US11605001B2Mar 14, 2023
Weight demodulation for a generative neural network
NVIDIA CORP0 citations61
US12142016B2Nov 12, 2024
Fused processing of a continuous mathematical operator
NVIDIA CORP0 citations60
US11921997B2Mar 5, 2024
User interfaces and methods for generating a new artifact based on existing artifacts
NVIDIA CORP0 citations60
US11435885B1Sep 6, 2022
User interfaces and methods for generating a new artifact based on existing artifacts
NVIDIA CORP1 citations60
US12536733B2Jan 27, 2026
Single-image inverse rendering
NVIDIA CORP0 citations59
US11790598B2Oct 17, 2023
Three-dimensional tomography reconstruction pipeline
NVIDIA CORP0 citations58
US12423781B2Sep 23, 2025
Techniques for content synthesis using denoising diffusion models
NVIDIA CORP0 citations57
US11823320B2Nov 21, 2023
Scattered geometry compression for ray tracing acceleration structures
NVIDIA CORP0 citations57
US11270495B2Mar 8, 2022
Scattered geometry compression for ray tracing acceleration structures
NVIDIA CORP0 citations57
US10984049B2Apr 20, 2021
Performing traversal stack compression
NVIDIA CORP0 citations56
US12567197B2Mar 3, 2026
Image synthesis using diffusion models created from single or multiple view images
NVIDIA CORP0 citations55
US9405508B2Aug 2, 2016
Sorting with key modification
NVIDIA CORP1 citations52
US11620521B2Apr 4, 2023
Smoothing regularization for a generative neural network
NVIDIA CORP0 citations50
US11263525B2Mar 1, 2022
Progressive modification of neural networks
NVIDIA CORP0 citations50
US12141941B2Nov 12, 2024
Generative neural networks with reduced aliasing
NVIDIA CORP0 citations49