US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on April 29 for "Determining lighting information for rendering a scene in computer graphics using illumination point sampling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,288, issued on April 29, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Determining lighting information for rendering a scene in computer graphics using illumination point sampling" was invented by Cuneyt Ozdas (San Francisco) and Luke Tilman Peterson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rendering system combines point sampling and volume sampling operations to produce rendering outputs. For example, to determine color information for a surface location in a 3-D scene, one or more point sampling operations are conducted in a volume around the surface location, and one or more sampling operatio...