Patents by Inventor Barbara Wolfers

Barbara Wolfers has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System, method, and computer program product for compression of a bounding volume hierarchy
    Patent number: 9224235
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for compressing a bounding volume hierarchy is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a bounding volume hierarchy and encoding the bounding volume hierarchy to generate an encoded bounding volume hierarchy, wherein each node in the encoded bounding volume hierarchy indicates whether the node inherits zero or more values from a parent node. The bounding volume hierarchy includes a plurality of nodes, each node in the plurality of nodes is associated with a bounding volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Igor Sevastiyanov, Barbara Wolfers
  • SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR COMPRESSION OF A BOUNDING VOLUME HIERARCHY
    Publication number: 20140285488
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for compressing a bounding volume hierarchy is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a bounding volume hierarchy and encoding the bounding volume hierarchy to generate an encoded bounding volume hierarchy, wherein each node in the encoded bounding volume hierarchy indicates whether the node inherits zero or more values from a parent node. The bounding volume hierarchy includes a plurality of nodes, each node in the plurality of nodes is associated with a bounding volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Igor Sevastiyanov, Barbara Wolfers