US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Nov. 3 for "Denoising techniques suitable for recurrent blurs" (Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,326, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Denoising techniques suitable for recurrent blurs" was invented by Dmitriy Zhdan (Korolev, Russia) and Evgeny Makarov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recurrent blurring may be used to render frames of a virtual environment, where the radius of a filter for a pixel is based on a number of successfully accumulated frames that correspond to that pixel. To account for rejections of accumulated samples for the pixel, ray-traced samples from a lower resolution version of a ray-traced render may be used to increase the effective sample count for the pixel. Par...