PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16052065
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["345", "421000"]

Abstract:
Rendering systems that can use combinations of rasterization rendering processes and ray tracing rendering processes are disclosed. In some implementations, these systems perform a rasterization pass to identify visible surfaces of pixels in an image. Some implementations may begin shading processes for visible surfaces, before the geometry is entirely processed, in which rays are emitted. Rays can be culled at various points during processing, based on determining whether the surface from which the ray was emitted is still visible. Rendering systems may implement rendering effects as disclosed.

Claim (Index 1):
A machine-implemented method for rendering geometry of a 3D scene, the method comprising concurrently:\n processing geometry of the 3D scene using rasterization operations to determine, for each of a plurality of sample positions, an element of geometry which is: (i) present at that sample position, and (ii) not hidden at that sample position by a previously processed element of geometry; processing rays in the 3D scene using ray tracing operations, wherein each ray is associated with status data; updating the status data for rays based on results of the rasterization operations; and using the status data for a particular ray to determine whether the particular ray is still current, and if so, then continuing to process the particular ray, and otherwise terminating the processing of the particular ray.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.47692
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14570314', '15385639', '14644830', '14440021', '15174811']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6754627147722453
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5242028940453669
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6603367326995575
- Mean Citation Score: 295.409188
- Max Citation Score: 350.88138
- Similarity Product: 289.37427847822306

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test