System and computer-implemented method for evaluating integrals using a quasi-Monte Carlo methodology in which sample points represent dependent samples generated using a low-discrepancy sequence

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[edit] Patent Title

System and computer-implemented method for evaluating integrals using a quasi-Monte Carlo methodology in which sample points represent dependent samples generated using a low-discrepancy sequence

[edit] Patent Number

US Patent 7167175

[edit] Abstract

A computer graphics system generates a pixel value for a pixel in an image, the pixel value being representative of a point in a scene as recorded on an image plane of a simulated camera, the computer graphics system comprising a sample point generator and a function evaluator. The sample point generator is configured to generate a set of sample points, at least one sample point being generated using at least one dependent sample, the at least one dependent sample comprising at least one element of a low-discrepancy sequence offset by at least one element of another low-discrepancy sequence. The function evaluator is configured to generate at least one value representing an evaluation of a selected function at one of the sample points generated by the sample point generator, the value generated by the function evaluator corresponding to the pixel value.

[edit] Inventors

Keller; Alexander (Ulm, DE)

[edit] Assignee

Mental Images GmbH (Berlin, DE)

[edit] Filed Date

November 19, 2002

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