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 3):
The method of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n obtaining input from a user directing said modifying one or more attributes of one or more ray tracing samples, after said obtaining said plurality of ray tracing samples and after said one or more passes of said ray tracing renderer, and before said modifying one or more attributes of one or more ray tracing samples; wherein\n said modifying one or more attributes of one or more ray tracing samples is based on said input from said user and on said one or more ray tracing samples.

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): 0.6863318420633326
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5654730293219413
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6742459607891935
- Mean Citation Score: 415.406622
- Max Citation Score: 485.6177
- Similarity Product: 327.321451167953

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