ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,076, issued on July 1, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Joint neural denoising of surfaces and volumes" was invented by Nikolai Till Hofmann (Nuremberg, Germany), Jon Niklas Theodor Hasselgren (Bunkeflostrand, Sweden) and Carl Jacob Munkberg (Malmo, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Denoising images rendered using Monte Carlo sampled ray tracing is an important technique for improving the image quality when low sample counts are used. Ray traced scenes that include volumes in addition to surface geometry are more complex, and noisy when low sample counts are used to render in real-time. Joint neural denoising o...