Issued Patents All Time
Showing 51–75 of 79 patents
| Patent # | Title | Co-Inventors | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10825230 | Watertight ray triangle intersection | Samuli Matias Laine, Timo Oskari Aila, Robert Ohannessian, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Greg Muthler +3 more | 2020-11-03 |
| 10825232 | Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention | Greg Muthler, Samuli Matias Laine, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., John Burgess +1 more | 2020-11-03 |
| 10740952 | Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive intersections | Samuli Matias Laine, Greg Muthler, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., Ignacio Llamas +1 more | 2020-08-11 |
| 10580196 | Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention | Greg Muthler, Samuli Matias Laine, William Parsons Newhall, Jr., Ronald Charles Babich, Jr., John Burgess +1 more | 2020-03-03 |
| 10331632 | Bounding volume hierarchies through treelet restructuring | Timo Oskari Aila | 2019-06-25 |
| 10242485 | Beam tracing | Timo Oskari Aila, Samuli Matias Laine, John Erik Lindholm | 2019-03-26 |
| 10032289 | Relative encoding for a block-based bounding volume hierarchy | Samuli Matias Laine, Timo Oskari Aila | 2018-07-24 |
| 10025879 | Tree data structures based on a plurality of local coordinate systems | Samuli Matias Laine, Timo Oskari Aila | 2018-07-17 |
| 9965821 | Fully parallel in-place construction of 3D acceleration structures in a graphics processing unit | — | 2018-05-08 |
| 9817919 | Agglomerative treelet restructuring for bounding volume hierarchies | Timo Oskari Aila | 2017-11-14 |
| 9721320 | Fully parallel in-place construction of 3D acceleration structures and bounding volume hierarchies in a graphics processing unit | — | 2017-08-01 |
| 9633469 | Conservative rasterization of primitives using an error term | Eric B. Lum, Walter R. Steiner, Henry Packard Moreton, Justin Cobb, Barry Nolan Rodgers +2 more | 2017-04-25 |
| 9582607 | Block-based bounding volume hierarchy | Samuli Matias Laine, Timo Oskari Aila | 2017-02-28 |
| 9569559 | Beam tracing | Timo Oskari Aila, Samuli Matias Laine, John Erik Lindholm | 2017-02-14 |
| 9552664 | Relative encoding for a block-based bounding volume hierarchy | Samuli Matias Laine, Timo Oskari Aila | 2017-01-24 |
| 9547932 | Splitting bounding volumes of primitives | Timo Oskari Aila | 2017-01-17 |
| 9448803 | System and method for hardware scheduling of conditional barriers and impatient barriers | John Erik Lindholm, Timo Oskari Aila, Samuli Matias Laine | 2016-09-20 |
| 9442755 | System and method for hardware scheduling of indexed barriers | John Erik Lindholm | 2016-09-13 |
| 9437039 | Method and system for graphics rendering employing gradient domain metropolis light transport | Jaakko T. Lehtinen, Timo Oskari Aila, Samuli Matias Laine, David Patrick Luebke | 2016-09-06 |
| 9405508 | Sorting with key modification | Timo Oskari Aila | 2016-08-02 |
| 9396512 | Fully parallel construction of k-d trees, octrees, and quadtrees in a graphics processing unit | — | 2016-07-19 |
| 9355492 | System, method, and computer program product for utilizing a wavefront path tracer | Marc Droske, Daniel Johannes Seibert, Stefan Radig, Alexander Keller, Julia Floetotto +3 more | 2016-05-31 |
| 9269183 | Combined clipless time and lens bounds for improved sample test efficiency in image rendering | Samuli Matias Laine | 2016-02-23 |
| 9158595 | Hardware scheduling of ordered critical code sections | John Erik Lindholm, Samuli Matias Laine, Timo Oskari Aila | 2015-10-13 |
| 9153068 | Clipless time and lens bounds for improved sample test efficiency in image rendering | Samuli Matias Laine, Jaakko T. Lehtinen, Timo Oskari Aila | 2015-10-06 |