US Patent Issued to Intel on April 14 for "Sample distribution-informed denoising and rendering" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,751, issued on April 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sample distribution-informed denoising and rendering" was invented by Tobias Zirr (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Sungye Kim (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processor is provided that includes circuitry configured to receive, at an input block of a neural network model, a set of data including previous frame data, current frame data, velocity data, and jitter offset data. The neural network model is configured to generate a denoised, supersampled, and anti-aliased output image based on reliability metrics computed based on sample distribu...