Patent ID: 11928772
Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A method implemented by a hardware-based traversal co-processor, the method comprising:
receiving a plurality of queries including ray information;
traversing, using the hardware-based traversal co-processor, an acceleration data structure for a plurality of rays identified by the ray information to determine bounding volumes or geometric primitives intersected by the plurality of rays;
monitoring, for each of the plurality of rays, how much the hardware-based traversal co-processor is used to traverse the acceleration data structure by the respective ray; and
interrupting traversal of the acceleration data structure for one or more of the rays of the plurality of rays that are determined to exceed a use threshold without interrupting transversal of the acceleration data structure for one or more other rays of the plurality of rays.