Inventor

Tero Tapani Karras

Inventor

Helsinki, FI

Overview

2013–2021

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 32 as inventor

Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.

G06Tprimary

G06TImage data processing or generation, in general59%

G06FElectric digital data processing25%

H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television9%

G06VImage or video recognition or understanding2%

G09GArrangements or circuits for control of indicating devices using static means to present variable information2%

H04LTransmission of digital information, e.g. telegraphic communication2%

PatentTitleYear

10,984,049Performing traversal stack compression2021 10,866,990Block-based lossless compression of geometric data2020 10,867,429Query-specific behavioral modification of tree traversal2020 10,825,232Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention2020 10,825,230Watertight ray triangle intersection2020 10,740,952Method for handling of out-of-order opaque and alpha ray/primitive intersections2020 10,580,196Method for continued bounding volume hierarchy traversal on intersection without shader intervention2020 10,331,632Bounding volume hierarchies through treelet restructuring2019 10,242,485Beam tracing2019 10,032,289Relative encoding for a block-based bounding volume hierarchy2018 10,025,879Tree data structures based on a plurality of local coordinate systems2018 9,965,821Fully parallel in-place construction of 3D acceleration structures in a graphics processing unit2018 9,817,919'Agglomerative treelet restructuring for bounding volume hierarchies'2017 9,721,320'Fully parallel in-place construction of 3D acceleration structures and bounding volume hierarchies in a graphics processing unit'2017 9,633,469'Conservative rasterization of primitives using an error term'2017 9,582,607'Block-based bounding volume hierarchy'2017 9,569,559'Beam tracing'2017 9,552,664'Relative encoding for a block-based bounding volume hierarchy'2017 9,547,932'Splitting bounding volumes of primitives'2017 9,448,803'System and method for hardware scheduling of conditional barriers and impatient barriers'2016 9,442,755'System and method for hardware scheduling of indexed barriers'2016 9,437,039'Method and system for graphics rendering employing gradient domain metropolis light transport'2016 9,405,508'Sorting with key modification'2016 9,396,512'Fully parallel construction of k-d trees, octrees, and quadtrees in a graphics processing unit'2016 9,355,492'System, method, and computer program product for utilizing a wavefront path tracer'2016 9,269,183'Combined clipless time and lens bounds for improved sample test efficiency in image rendering'2016 9,158,595'Hardware scheduling of ordered critical code sections'2015 9,153,068'Clipless time and lens bounds for improved sample test efficiency in image rendering'2015 9,142,043'System and method for improved sample test efficiency in image rendering'2015 8,698,836'System, method, and computer program product for optimizing stratified sampling associated with stochastic transparency'2014 8,698,825'System, method, and computer program product for optimizing use of a vertex cache'2014 8,472,455'System and method for traversing a treelet-composed hierarchical structure'2013

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

2013–2021Patents assigned to NVIDIA CORP (32)· patent assignee history

2013–2016Patents assigned to KARRAS TERO (5)· patent assignee history

2013–2015Patents assigned to AILA TIMO (3)· patent assignee history

2013–2021Based in Helsinki, FI· patent location history

2014–2016Patents assigned to LAINE SAMULI (4)· patent assignee history

2014Based in Espoo, FI· patent location history

2015Patents assigned to LEHTINEN JAAKKO (2)· patent assignee history

2020Based in Uusimaa, FI· patent location history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
NVIDIA CORP	32	2013–2021
KARRAS TEROself	5	2013–2016
LAINE SAMULI	4	2014–2016
AILA TIMO	3	2013–2015
LEHTINEN JAAKKO	2	2015

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Helsinki, FI	26	2013–2021
Uusimaa, FI	5	2020
Espoo, FI	1	2014