US Patent Issued to Nvidia on March 17 for "Sub-pixel curve rendering in content generation systems and applications" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,731, issued on March 17, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sub-pixel curve rendering in content generation systems and applications" was invented by Tianyi Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches presented herein provide for the generation of image content including fine objects, such as those that may be less than one pixel in width. Fine objects such as hairs can be represented by curve equations, and curves defined by these equations can be given an inflated width in order to perform conservative hit testing to efficiently identify pixels that a hair might intersect. Once candidate ...