US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Oct. 14 for "Adding greater realism to a computer-generated image by smoothing jagged edges within the image in an efficient manner" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,026, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Adding greater realism to a computer-generated image by smoothing jagged edges within the image in an efficient manner" was invented by Holger Heinrich Gruen (Bavaria, Germany), Adam Christopher Marrs (Cary, N.C.), Josef B. Spjut (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Rahul Sathe (Folsom, Calif.) and Morgan McGuire (Williamstown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During the rendering of an image, specific pixels in the image are identified where antialiasing would be helpful. Antialiasing is then performed on these identified pixels, where antialiasing is a techniqu...