ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,719, issued on June 23, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS SAS (Paris).
"System and method for real-time ray tracing in a 3D environment" was invented by Heqi Lu (Bordeaux, France), Patrice Hirtzlin (Betton, France), Francois-Louis Tariolle (Liffre, France) and Clement Viguier (Castelginest, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For rendering a three-dimensional (3D) scene, a set of parameters for one or more objects in the 3D scene are identified. Intermediate structures and corresponding objects for each of the one or more objects in the 3D scene are determined based on the set of identified parameters. A hybrid accele...