http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patent/EP-1264281-A1
Outgoing Links
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| assignee | http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patentassignee/MD5_ff81a650b70e913d3b2524b45e4c7320 |
| classificationCPCInventive | http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patentcpc/G06T15-06 http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patentcpc/G06T15-40 http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patentcpc/G06T15-08 |
| classificationIPCInventive | http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patentipc/G06T15-00 http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patentipc/G06T15-40 http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patentipc/G06T15-06 |
| filingDate | 2001-02-26-04:00^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date> |
| inventor | http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patentinventor/MD5_53e8913aa4bceffa0ba313a2b5b80b2c http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patentinventor/MD5_55828a4f2d3f6f8d05ea0d2f8be995c7 http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patentinventor/MD5_3554dde19b307cf17a4ef1c257f8c5a7 http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patentinventor/MD5_810eac4a30fdff03967856aae3db637b |
| publicationDate | 2002-12-11-04:00^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date> |
| publicationNumber | EP-1264281-A1 |
| titleOfInvention | Apparatus and method for volume processing and rendering |
| abstract | An apparatus and method for real-time volume processing and universal three-dimensional rendering. The apparatus includes a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) memory units (24); at least one pixel bus for providing global horizontal communication (34); a plurality of rendering pipelines; at least one geometry bus (46); and a control unit (38). The apparatus includes a block processor having a circular ray integration pipeline for processing voxel data and ray data. Rays are generally processed in image order thus permitting great flexibility (e.g., perspective projection, global illumination). The block processor includes a splatting unit and a scattering unit. A method for casting shadows and performing global illumination in relation to light sources, which includes sweeping a two dimensional array of rays through the volume, can also be implemented with the apparatus. A method for approximating a perspective projection includes using parallel projection. |
| priorityDate | 2000-02-25-04:00^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date> |
| type | http://data.epo.org/linked-data/def/patent/Publication |
Incoming Links
Total number of triples: 31.