ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,198, issued on April 7, was assigned to SiliconArts Technology US Inc..

"Ray tracing method and apparatus based on attention for dynamic scenes" was invented by Woo Chan Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual attention-based ray tracing method includes: determining whether each sampling pixel hits a primary ray during a process of generating a first image by rending a specific scene at a first resolution; and performing selective rendering repeatedly on candidate pixels existing between the sampling pixels during a process of generating a second image by rendering the first image at a second resolution highe...