Adding greater realism to a computer-generated image by smoothing jagged edges
AssigneeNVIDIA Corporation
InventorsAdam Christopher Marrs, Josef B. Spjut, Holger Heinrich Gruen, Morgan McGuire, Rahul Sathe
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Abstract
During the rendering of an image, specific pixels in the image are identified where antialiasing would be helpful. Antialiasing is then performed on these identified pixels, where anti-aliasing is a technique used to add greater realism to a digital image by smoothing jagged edges. This reduces a cost of performing antialiasing by reducing a number of pixels within an image on which antialiasing is performed.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- applying temporal antialiasing (TAA) to an image;
- identifying failure pixels resulting from applying the TAA to the image;
- and
- performing antialiasing on each of the failure pixels, utilizing a combination of ray tracing and fast approximate anti-aliasing (FXAA).
A system comprising:
- a processor that is configured to:
- apply temporal antialiasing (TAA) to an image;
- identify failure pixels resulting from applying the TAA to the image;
- and
- perform antialiasing on each of the failure pixels, utilizing a combination of ray tracing and fast approximate anti-aliasing (FXAA);
- and
- a memory that is configured to store results of the antialiasing.
A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform steps comprising:
- applying temporal antialiasing (TAA) to an image;
- identifying failure pixels resulting from applying the TAA to the image;
- and
- performing antialiasing on each of the failure pixels, utilizing a combination of ray tracing and fast approximate anti-aliasing (FXAA).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.