ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,201, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Illumination rendering method and apparatus, and electronic device and storage medium" was invented by Wenyao Li (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination rendering method and apparatus, and an electronic device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining the current scene shading point; emitting a virtual marching ray according to the current scene shading point; determining, according to updated scene signed-distance-field information corresponding to a current frame, a marching length corres...