{"schema_version":"1.0","canonical_url":"https://patentable.app/patents/US-11282261","patent":{"patent_number":"US-11282261","title":"Ray tracing hardware acceleration with alternative world space transforms","assignee":null,"inventors":[],"filing_date":"2020-06-10T00:00:00.000Z","publication_date":"2022-03-22T00:00:00.000Z","cpc_codes":["G06T","G06F","G06T","G06T","G06T","G06T","G06T"],"num_claims":27,"abstract":"Enhanced techniques applicable to a ray tracing hardware accelerator for traversing a hierarchical acceleration structure are disclosed. The traversal efficiency of such hardware accelerators are improved, for example, by transforming a ray, in hardware, from the ray's coordinate space to two or more coordinate spaces at respective points in traversing the hierarchical acceleration structure. In one example, the hardware accelerator is configured to transform a ray, received from a processor, from the world space to at least one alternate world space and then to an object space in hardware before a corresponding ray-primitive intersection results are returned to the processor. The techniques disclosed herein facilitate the use of additional coordinate spaces to orient acceleration structures in a manner that more efficiently approximate the space occupied by the underlying primitives being ray-traced."},"analysis":{"summary":null,"layman_explanation":null,"technical_analysis":null,"business_analysis":null,"faqs":null,"topics":[],"tech_cluster":null},"seo":{"title":"Ray tracing hardware acceleration with alternative world space transforms","description":"Enhanced techniques applicable to a ray tracing hardware accelerator for traversing a hierarchical acceleration structure are disclosed. The traversal efficiency of such hardware accelerators are impr","keywords":[]},"attribution":{"source":"Patentable","source_url":"https://patentable.app","canonical_url":"https://patentable.app/patents/US-11282261","license":"CC-BY-4.0-like","license_terms":"AI-generated analysis on this page (summary, layman_explanation, technical_analysis, business_analysis, faqs) may be reused with attribution and a visible link back to the canonical URL above. Patent abstracts, claims, and bibliographic data are USPTO public domain.","required_link":"https://patentable.app/patents/US-11282261","citation_suggestion":"Patentable. \"Ray tracing hardware acceleration with alternative world space transforms\" (US-11282261). https://patentable.app/patents/US-11282261","copyright_holder":"Nomic Interactive Technology LLC"},"links":{"html":"https://patentable.app/patents/US-11282261","json":"https://patentable.app/api/llm-context/US-11282261","site":"https://patentable.app","llms_txt":"https://patentable.app/llms.txt"},"generated_at":"2026-05-30T20:37:07.465Z"}