Patents Assigned to Raycast Systems, Inc.
  • Computer hardware architecture and data structures for ray binning to support incoherent ray traversal
    Patent number: 9761040
    Abstract: A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning. Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Raycast Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin D. Zimmerman
  • Computer hardware architecture and data structures for encoders to support incoherent ray traversal
    Patent number: 9619923
    Abstract: A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning. Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Raycast Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin D. Zimmerman
  • Computer Hardware Architecture and Data Structures for Packet Binning to Support Incoherent Ray Traversal
    Publication number: 20150228051
    Abstract: A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning. Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Raycast Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin D. Zimmerman
  • Computer hardware architecture and data structures for packet binning to support incoherent ray traversal
    Patent number: 9087394
    Abstract: A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning. Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Raycast Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin D. Zimmerman
  • Computer hardware architecture and data structures for a ray traversal unit to support incoherent ray traversal
    Patent number: 9058691
    Abstract: A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning. Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Raycast Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin D. Zimmerman
  • Computer hardware architecture and data structures for triangle binning to support incoherent ray traversal
    Patent number: 9035946
    Abstract: A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Raycast Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin D. Zimmerman
  • Computer hardware architecture and data structures for a grid traversal unit to support incoherent ray traversal
    Patent number: 8952963
    Abstract: A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning. Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Raycast Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin D. Zimmerman
  • Computer hardware architecture and data structures for ray binning to support incoherent ray traversal
    Patent number: 8947447
    Abstract: A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning. Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Raycast Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin D. Zimmerman
  • Computer hardware architecture and data structures for encoders to support incoherent ray traversal
    Patent number: 8928675
    Abstract: A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning. Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Raycast Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin D. Zimmerman
  • Computer hardware architecture and data structures for a grid traversal unit to support incoherent ray traversal
    Patent number: 8847959
    Abstract: A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning. Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Raycast Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin D. Zimmerman
  • Computer hardware architecture and data structures for lookahead flags to support incoherent ray traversal
    Patent number: 8842117
    Abstract: A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning. Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Raycast Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin D. Zimmerman
  • Computer hardware architecture and data structures for a ray traversal unit to support incoherent ray traversal
    Patent number: 8817026
    Abstract: A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning. Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Raycast Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin D. Zimmerman