Rendering transparent primitives
US9275495B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 27, 2011 |
| Grant date | Mar 1, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 24, 2032 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N13/122
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Representing a transparent object as a summation of substantially zero step functions of a visibility curve for the object. An array may be used to store nodes to represent the visibility function. The size of the array may be limited to be storable within a memory of an on-chip graphics processing unit.
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