Patents by Inventor Eric O'Connell

Eric O'Connell 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).

  • Publication number: 20260228957
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products for rendering objects for display include: maintaining, by a computer having a display device and a local memory, a data structure in the local memory; receiving, by the computer, a request to render a current frame for display on the display device; sequentially determining, by the computer, nodes of a first set of current nodes that are associated with the current frame and that are already included in the data structure; in response to the determining, updating the data structure; and rendering, by the computer, the current frame for display on the display device based on the updated data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2025
    Publication date: August 6, 2026
    Inventors: Haik Horst Lorenz, Henrik Buchholz, Sebastian Dunkel, Eric O'Connell
  • Publication number: 20260228971
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products for rendering objects for display include: obtaining, by a computer having a display device and a local memory, a bounding volume hierarchy including nodes corresponding to a plurality of objects in a 3D model of an environment; by the computer, a queue data structure in the local memory of the computer; traversing, by the computer, the bounding volume hierarchy to add one or more nodes of the nodes of the bounding volume hierarchy to the queue data structure; and rendering, by the computer, the objects of the one or more nodes on the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2025
    Publication date: August 6, 2026
    Inventors: Haik Horst Lorenz, Henrik Buchholz, Sebastian Dunkel, Eric O'Connell