Patent ID: 11887244
Assignee: IMAGINATION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the step of obtaining one or more ray requests for the ray comprises obtaining up to a predetermined maximum number (M) of ray requests for the ray, and wherein the step of processing the first progress information and any identified intersections to define one or more ray requests comprises:
if the first number of identified intersections between the ray and any elements of a non-leaf node is greater than the predetermined maximum number, defining a first set of one or more ray requests to be obtained for a next iteration of the intersection testing process,
wherein the number of ray requests in the first set of one or more ray requests is equal to the predetermined maximum number of ray requests, and
wherein each identified node in the first set of one or more ray requests:
is associated with an intersected element of a non-leaf node;
has a sequential value, or is a parent node of one or more leaf nodes having a sequential value, sequentially closest to, but not earlier than, the first progress sequential value amongst the nodes associated with an intersected element.