Intel corporation (20240104825). APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR QUANTIZED CONVERGENT DIRECTION-BASED RAY SORTING simplified abstract

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APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR QUANTIZED CONVERGENT DIRECTION-BASED RAY SORTING

Organization Name

intel corporation

Inventor(s)

Karol Szerszen of Hillsboro CA (US)

Prasoonkumar Surti of Folsom CA (US)

Gabor Liktor of San Francisco CA (US)

Karthik Vaidyanathan of San Francisco CA (US)

Sven Woop of Voelklingen (DE)

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR QUANTIZED CONVERGENT DIRECTION-BASED RAY SORTING - A simplified explanation of the abstract

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240104825 titled 'APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR QUANTIZED CONVERGENT DIRECTION-BASED RAY SORTING

Simplified Explanation

The patent application describes an apparatus and method for grouping rays based on quantized ray directions. The apparatus includes a ray generator, ray direction evaluation circuitry/logic, and ray sorting circuitry/logic to sort rays into different queues based on their approximate direction data.

  • Ray generator to create multiple rays
  • Ray direction evaluation circuitry/logic to determine approximate ray direction data for each ray
  • Ray sorting circuitry/logic to categorize rays into different queues based on their direction data

Potential Applications

This technology could be applied in:

  • Ray tracing for computer graphics
  • Beamforming in wireless communication systems

Problems Solved

This technology helps in:

  • Efficiently organizing rays for processing
  • Improving performance in ray-based applications

Benefits

The benefits of this technology include:

  • Faster ray processing
  • Enhanced accuracy in ray-based calculations

Potential Commercial Applications

Potential commercial applications include:

  • Gaming industry for realistic graphics
  • Telecommunications industry for improved signal processing

Possible Prior Art

One possible prior art could be:

  • Existing ray tracing algorithms for computer graphics

Unanswered Questions

1. How does this technology handle complex ray interactions? 2. What is the computational overhead of sorting rays into different queues based on their direction data?


Original Abstract Submitted

apparatus and method for grouping rays based on quantized ray directions. for example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: an apparatus comprising: a ray generator to generate a plurality of rays; ray direction evaluation circuitry/logic to generate approximate ray direction data for each of the plurality of rays; ray sorting circuitry/logic to sort the rays into a plurality of ray queues based, at least in part, on the approximate ray direction data.