US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Oct. 21 for "Method and a system for bounding volume hierarchy approximation" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,821, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and a system for bounding volume hierarchy approximation" was invented by Mohamed Ibrahim Hafez Ibrahim (Mississauga, Canada), Jatinder Singh Bhachu (Brampton, Canada) and Yang Liu (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for traversing a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) structure associated with a given 3D scene using a ray tracing algorithm are provided. The method comprises: determining an escape probability value for a given node of the BVH structure of a given ray traversing the given node without reflecting off any...