Adaptive sub-sampling for reduction in issued rays

• Main Authors: BROWN JEFFREY DOUGLAS, HOOVER RUSSELL DEAN, MEJDRICH ERIC OLIVER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 04.09.2012
• Subjects: ADVERTISING; ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICESUSING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; EDUCATION; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; SEALS

According to one embodiment of the invention, by increasing the number of rays issued through adjacent pixels with colors of high contrast while maintaining the number of rays issued through adjacent pixels which do not have colors of high contrast, a ray tracing image processing system may render a...