PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989367
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["345", "422000"]

Abstract:
Examples described herein relate to rendering a full resolution image using a reduced resolution depth pre-pass to pre-populate depth data for culling. A computing device may include a memory, a graphics processing unit (GPU) including a hierarchical depth buffer or full resolution depth data, and at least one processor. The computer device may render an occlusion geometry at a reduced resolution. The computer device may be configured to sample a depth value of pixels of the occlusion geometry. The computer device may pre-populate the GPU depth data based on the sampled depth values. The computer device may cull at least one tile or pixel from a full resolution rendering process in response to a depth of the at least one tile or pixel being further than a corresponding depth value in the GPU depth data. The computer device may perform the full resolution rendering process on remaining tiles or pixels.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 2 , wherein biasing the sampled depth values comprises rounding the sampled depth value to a further discrete value of a hierarchical depth buffer of the GPU depth data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23611
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12013256', '15268500', '11073384', '14993339', '14576036']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6941308367107251
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.501395110933938
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6748572641330464
- Mean Citation Score: 257.26356
- Max Citation Score: 266.05557000000005
- Similarity Product: 200.8997216980416

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

Dataset: test