18968888. ASYNCHRONOUS AND CONCURRENT RAY TRACING AND RASTERIZATION RENDERING PROCESSES (Imagination Technologies Limited)
ASYNCHRONOUS AND CONCURRENT RAY TRACING AND RASTERIZATION RENDERING PROCESSES
Organization Name
Imagination Technologies Limited
Inventor(s)
Luke T. Peterson of San Francisco CA US
ASYNCHRONOUS AND CONCURRENT RAY TRACING AND RASTERIZATION RENDERING PROCESSES
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18968888 titled 'ASYNCHRONOUS AND CONCURRENT RAY TRACING AND RASTERIZATION RENDERING PROCESSES
Original Abstract Submitted
Rendering systems that can use combinations of rasterization rendering processes and ray tracing rendering processes are disclosed. In some implementations, these systems perform a rasterization pass to identify visible surfaces of pixels in an image. Some implementations may begin shading processes for visible surfaces, before the geometry is entirely processed, in which rays are emitted. Rays can be culled at various points during processing, based on determining whether the surface from which the ray was emitted is still visible. Rendering systems may implement rendering effects as disclosed.
