US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 18 for "Geometry culling using bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) for ray tracing" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,877, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Geometry culling using bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) for ray tracing" was invented by Alexei Vladimirovich Bourd (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU. The apparatus may obtain an indication of a BVH structure associated with a view frustum, where the BVH structure includes at least one first-level BVH including a plurality of first-level nodes and a plurality of second-level BVHs including a plurality of second-level nodes. The apparatus may also ...