US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 2 for "Apparatus and method for environment probe guided light sampling" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,532, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for environment probe guided light sampling" was invented by Holger H. Gruen (Bavaria, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for environmental probe guided light sampling. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: generating a plurality of environment probes for a graphics scene, each environment probe having a direction originally associated therewith for capturing light from one or more light sources associated with the graphics scene; and altering one or more directions associated with a corresponding one o...