US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on March 4 for "Graphics processing using directional representations of lighting at probe positions within a scene" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,156, issued on March 4, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Graphics processing using directional representations of lighting at probe positions within a scene" was invented by Jens Fursund (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Luke T. Peterson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Graphics processing systems can include lighting effects when rendering images. "Light probes" are directional representations of lighting at particular probe positions in the space of a scene which is being rendered. Light probes can be determined iteratively, which can allow them to be determined dynamically, in rea...