ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,635, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Initial candidates in spatiotemporal resampling" was invented by Chris Wyman (Redmond, Wash.) and Jakub Boksansky (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches in accordance with various illustrative embodiments provide for the selection and reuse of lighting sample data to generate high quality initial candidates, suitable for input to resampling techniques, that are better representative of the actual lighting of a scene for which an image, video frame, or other such representation is to be rendered. Instead of discarding an important light samples whe...