Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphics processing – Three-dimension
Reexamination Certificate
2007-07-31
2007-07-31
Nguyen, Kimbinh T. (Department: 2628)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Computer graphics processing
Three-dimension
C345S419000, C345S422000, C345S423000, C345S426000, C345S427000, C345S582000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10532907
ABSTRACT:
A system (40) is provided for visible surface determination in furtherance of photorealistic rendering in a computer graphics environment. The system includes a scene database (42) and a processor, visual characteristics of objects of an image frame (44) of a scene of the scene database (42) are delimited as geometric primitive. The processor, for executing an interval analysis, to a user degree of certainty, accurately and deterministically ascertains a visible solution set of an area not exceeding a pixel dimension for a pixel of an array of pixels (50) that form said image frame (44).
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Nguyen Kimbinh T.
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