PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16450756
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["345", "426000"]

Abstract:
Among the various embodiments disclosed herein are example methods for using real-time raytracing in a hybrid approach along with screen space reflections. In certain implementations, the two approaches are combined in a process that decides whether to use screen space reflections or raytracing for a given pixel during a preliminary analysis (pre-pass) of the pixel to be rendered.

Claim (Index 21):
One or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions for causing a computer system, when programmed thereby, to perform operations that reduce the computational burden of rendering pixels depicting reflective surfaces in a frame of a computer-represented environment, the operations comprising:\n generating a list of reflection ray origins and directions for the frame; for a selected pixel having a reflection ray:\n determining whether the reflection ray for the selected pixel is reflected back to a virtual camera position of the frame; \n if the reflection ray is determined to be reflected back to the virtual camera position of the frame, performing a first reflection ray technique to generate a resulting pixel value for the reflection ray; and \n if the selected reflection ray is determined not to be reflected back to the virtual camera position of the frame, performing a second reflection ray technique to generate the resulting pixel value for the reflection ray; and \n rendering the frame for display on a display device, the rendered frame including the resulting pixel value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.3125
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15902926', '12271509', '16101066', '15818540', '12103099']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5711155097807771
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5659976521079924
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5706037240134986
- Mean Citation Score: 220.042402
- Max Citation Score: 426.13025
- Similarity Product: 408.3654928916394

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

Dataset: test