PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16118200
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["345", "421000"]

Abstract:
A method of directly modifying ray tracing samples generated by a ray tracing renderer. Modifications to samples may be made after rendering and before rasterizing, in contrast to typical compositing workflows that manipulate pixels of a rasterized image. Modifications may be based on user input. Rasterization may be performed afterwards at any desired resolutions, for example to adapt to different displays. Samples may be tagged with object identities, facilitating object selection without the need for object masks. Pseudo-random ray patterns typically used by renderers may be supported directly. Many operations may be performed directly on samples, including color changes, object repositioning, and merging of samples from different scenes. Secure samples with scrambled ray directions may be modified directly. Modified samples may be compressed for storage or transmission, and may be streamed to receiving devices that rasterize the samples for display, possibly after decompressing or decrypting the received streams.

Claim (Index 25):
The method of  claim 20 , further comprising:\n generating said plurality of ray tracing samples, before said obtaining said plurality of ray tracing samples, said generating comprising\n transforming an original ray direction associated with each ray tracing sample of said plurality of ray tracing samples into a scrambled ray direction; and, \n determining said sample location associated with said each ray tracing sample based on said scrambled ray direction; and, \n unscrambling said plurality of ray tracing samples, after said obtaining said plurality of ray tracing samples, and before said rasterizing said modified ray tracing samples into said rasterized image, said unscrambling comprising\n modifying said sample location to correspond to said original ray direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.73684
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16117841', '16118070', '15995312', '15691686', '12478671']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6834057916575937
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5731014423677717
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6723753567286116
- Mean Citation Score: 415.406622
- Max Citation Score: 485.6177
- Similarity Product: 370.0785593618095

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

Dataset: test