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Samsung patents image rendering that mixes standard shading with AI upscaling

Samsung describes a method for rendering images by dividing them into small blocks called tiles. The system uses standard graphics processing for some pixels and a neural network to enhance the quality of others, specifically avoiding the need to look at neighboring tiles for data.

Why it mattersThis technique could help graphics processors render high-quality images more efficiently by using AI only where necessary, potentially improving performance in games or video apps.

In the filing’s own words

A processor-implemented method included determining first color values of a portion of pixels of plural pixels, the portion of pixels being in a tile frame corresponding to a partial region of an input frame, by performing shading using a shader module on the portion of pixels included, determining second color values of other pixels, the other pixels being pixels of the plural pixels not included in the portion of pixels of the tile frame, by performing neural network-based super-sampling processing on the other pixels, and determining a rendered tile frame including the first color values of the portion of pixels and the second color values of the other pixels, the determining of the first color values of the portion of pixels including determining edge color values of pixels in an edge region by performing shading using the shader module on the pixels in the edge region of the tile frame.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A processor-implemented method, the method comprising: determining first color values of a portion of pixels of plural pixels, the portion of pixels being in a tile frame corresponding to a partial region of an input frame, the tile frame including an edge region and a non-edge region, by performing shading using a shader module on the portion of pixels included; determining second color values of other pixels in the non-edge region, the other pixels being pixels of the plural pixels not included in the portion of pixels of the tile frame, by performing neural network-based super-sampling processing on the other pixels; and determining a rendered tile frame comprising the first color values of the portion of pixels and the second color values of the other pixels, wherein the determining of the first color values of the portion of pixels comprises determining edge color values of pixels in the edge region by performing shading using the shader module on the pixels in the edge region of the tile frame, and wherein the super-sampling processing for determining the second color values is performed without using color values of pixels included in other tile frames located around the tile frame.

Facts

Company
Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
Official title
Method and apparatus with tile-based image rendering
Patent number
US12770322B2
Application number
18680883
Filed
May 31, 2024
Granted
Oct 20, 2026
Inventors
1
Claims
20

Classified under

G06T 15/80 Physics & computingG06T 3/4053 Physics & computingG06T 7/90 Physics & computingG06V 10/56 Physics & computingG06T 2207/10024 Physics & computingG06T 2207/20084 Physics & computing
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