US Patent Issued to Nvidia on Oct. 7 for "Illumination resampling using temporal gradients in light transport simulation systems and applications" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,371, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Illumination resampling using temporal gradients in light transport simulation systems and applications" was invented by Alexey Panteleev (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Chris Wyman (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described relate to the generation of image content. In order to provide for smoothing between sequential images, but avoid introducing lag into lighting effects, light information can be compared for regions between consecutive rendered frames. Shading can be performed and the results compared for tiles of pixels to ...