US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 22 for "Light-resampling with surface similarity test" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,823, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Light-resampling with surface similarity test" was invented by Alexey Panteleev (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and techniques to incorporate lighting effects into computer-generated graphics. In at least one embodiment, a graphical frame depicting a virtual scene comprising is rendered by generating a record indicative of one or more lights in the virtual scene, and using the record to render a pixel. A second record, indicative of other lights in the virtual scene, is selected to combine with the first record, based at...