US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology on Feb. 3 for "Image rendering method and apparatus, device, and storage medium to perform direct illumination using light source grids" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,914, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Image rendering method and apparatus, device, and storage medium to perform direct illumination using light source grids" was invented by Liming Xu (Shenzhen, China) and Dong Dong (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image rendering method includes: acquiring a project scene, materials of an object in the project scene including a light source material, and the light source material being a material that is endowed with a light source attribute by setting a corresponding shading model to be a custom grid light source shading model; sea...