ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,047, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SiliconArts Technology US Inc..

"Multilevel selective rendering method and apparatus for increasing rendering performance" was invented by Woo Chan Park (Seoul, South Korea), Ji Young Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Yun Ho Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilevel selective rendering method for increasing rendering performance, includes: setting a multilevel threshold for a current tile in a rendering process for an image frame divided into a plurality of tiles; generating initial sampling blocks by performing initial sampling for the current tile; generating first level bl...