Inventor
PFISTER HANSPETER
US57 patents
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MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB
31 patentsUS8044994B2Oct 25, 2011
Method and system for decoding and displaying 3D light fields
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB223 citations98
US6803910B2Oct 12, 2004
Rendering compressed surface reflectance fields of 3D objects
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB78 citations98
US7212664B2May 1, 2007
Constructing heads from 3D models and 2D silhouettes
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB64 citations97
US6903738B2Jun 7, 2005
Image-based 3D modeling rendering system
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB84 citations97
US6583787B1Jun 24, 2003
Rendering pipeline for surface elements
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB102 citations97
US6556200B1Apr 29, 2003
Temporal and spatial coherent ray tracing for rendering scenes with sampled and geometry data
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB140 citations97
US6791542B2Sep 14, 2004
Modeling 3D objects with opacity hulls
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB62 citations95
US6639597B1Oct 28, 2003
Visibility splatting and image reconstruction for surface elements
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB64 citations95
US6509902B1Jan 21, 2003
Texture filtering for surface elements
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB61 citations95
US6448968B1Sep 10, 2002
Method for rendering graphical objects represented as surface elements
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB67 citations95
US6342886B1Jan 29, 2002
Method for interactively modeling graphical objects with linked and unlinked surface elements
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB56 citations95
US7916934B2Mar 29, 2011
Method and system for acquiring, encoding, decoding and displaying 3D light fields
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB45 citations94
US6211884B1Apr 3, 2001
Incrementally calculated cut-plane region for viewing a portion of a volume data set in real-time
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB65 citations94
US7599555B2Oct 6, 2009
System and method for image matting
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB46 citations92
US7426292B2Sep 16, 2008
Method for determining optimal viewpoints for 3D face modeling and face recognition
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB24 citations92
US7218324B2May 15, 2007
Scene reflectance functions under natural illumination
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB18 citations92
US6498607B1Dec 24, 2002
Method for generating graphical object represented as surface elements
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB49 citations92
US6480190B1Nov 12, 2002
Graphical objects represented as surface elements
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB27 citations92
US6466227B1Oct 15, 2002
Programmable architecture for visualizing sampled and geometry data
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB46 citations92
US6396496B1May 28, 2002
Method for modeling graphical objects represented as surface elements
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB42 citations92
US6580425B1Jun 17, 2003
Hierarchical data structures for surface elements
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB31 citations91
US7319467B2Jan 15, 2008
Skin reflectance model for representing and rendering faces
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB28 citations90
US7324594B2Jan 29, 2008
Method for encoding and decoding free viewpoint videos
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB29 citations89
US6744435B2Jun 1, 2004
Rendering discrete sample points projected to a screen space with a continuous resampling filter
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB43 citations89
US6353677B1Mar 5, 2002
Rendering objects having multiple volumes and embedded geometries using minimal depth information
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB37 citations87
US7298372B2Nov 20, 2007
Sample rate adaptive filtering for volume rendering
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB16 citations84
US7194125B2Mar 20, 2007
System and method for interactively rendering objects with surface light fields and view-dependent opacity
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB14 citations84
US7609860B2Oct 27, 2009
Bilinear illumination model for robust face recognition
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB14 citations83
US7609906B2Oct 27, 2009
Method and system for acquiring and displaying 3D light fields
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB12 citations83
US7609859B2Oct 27, 2009
Method and system for generating bi-linear models for faces
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB14 citations83
US7844106B2Nov 30, 2010
Method and system for determining poses of objects from range images using adaptive sampling of pose spaces
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB12 citations78
TERARECON INC
10 patentsUS6262740B1Jul 17, 2001
Method for rendering sections of a volume data set
TERARECON INC165 citations99
US6243098B1Jun 5, 2001
Volume rendering pipelines
TERARECON INC118 citations99
US6219061B1Apr 17, 2001
Method for rendering mini blocks of a volume data set
TERARECON INC139 citations99
US6407737B1Jun 18, 2002
Rendering a shear-warped partitioned volume data set
TERARECON INC52 citations95
US6512517B1Jan 28, 2003
Volume rendering integrated circuit
TERARECON INC51 citations93
US6483507B2Nov 19, 2002
Super-sampling and gradient estimation in a ray-casting volume rendering system
TERARECON INC24 citations92
US6532017B1Mar 11, 2003
Volume rendering pipeline
TERARECON INC47 citations91
US6356265B1Mar 12, 2002
Method and apparatus for modulating lighting with gradient magnitudes of volume data in a rendering pipeline
TERARECON INC40 citations91
US6426749B1Jul 30, 2002
Method and apparatus for mapping reflectance while illuminating volume data in a rendering pipeline
TERARECON INC40 citations90
US6411296B1Jun 25, 2002
Method and apparatus for applying modulated lighting to volume data in a rendering pipeline
TERARECON INC31 citations90
UNIV NEW YORK STATE RES FOUND
2 patentsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LABS I
2 patentsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC INF TECH
1 patentMITSUBISH ELECTRIC RES LAB INC
1 patentBICKEL BERND
1 patentTERA RECON INC
1 patentDISNEY ENTPR INC
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