PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16030664
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["345", "426000"]

Abstract:
Methods and ray tracing units are provided for performing intersection testing for use in rendering an image of a 3-D scene. A hierarchical acceleration structure may be traversed by: traversing one or more upper levels of nodes of the hierarchical acceleration structure according to a first traversal technique, the first traversal technique being a depth-first traversal technique; and traversing one or more lower levels of nodes of the hierarchical acceleration structure according to a second traversal technique, the second traversal technique not being a depth-first traversal technique. Results of traversing the hierarchical acceleration structure are used for rendering the image of the 3-D scene. The upper levels of the acceleration structure may be defined according to a spatial subdivision structure, whereas the lower levels of the acceleration structure may be defined according to a bounding volume structure.

Claim (Index 11):
The method of  claim 10  wherein the number of upper levels of nodes which are to be defined according to the spatial subdivision structure is determined based on the spatial coverage of the primitives in the 3D scene.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47458
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15649409', '15705976', '14248033', '13567033', '12612832']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7473340635535727
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5878804304280216
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7313887002410175
- Mean Citation Score: 419.4113679999999
- Max Citation Score: 566.6291
- Similarity Product: 409.5153805143535

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