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Hanspeter Pfister
Also filed as: PFISTER HANSPETER
57 granted patents·4 pending applications·2,941 citations·filing 1994–2021
99Inventor score
Files withMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB35TERARECON INC10DISNEY ENTPR INC2HARVARD COLLEGE2MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC INF TECH2
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61 records- 0199US8044994B2Method and system for decoding and displaying 3D light fieldsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 25, 2011·223 cites·31 claims
- 0297US7916934B2Method and system for acquiring, encoding, decoding and displaying 3D light fieldsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2007·Granted Mar 29, 2011·45 cites·24 claims
- 0396US7599555B2System and method for image mattingMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 6, 2009·46 cites·20 claims
- 0496US6262740B1Method for rendering sections of a volume data setTERARECON INC·Filed 1999·Granted Jul 17, 2001·165 cites·4 claims
- 0596US5594842AApparatus and method for real-time volume visualizationUNIV NEW YORK STATE RES FOUND·Filed 1994·Granted Jan 14, 1997·173 cites·34 claims
- 0695US6583787B1Rendering pipeline for surface elementsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 24, 2003·102 cites·17 claims
- 0795US6219061B1Method for rendering mini blocks of a volume data setTERARECON INC·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 17, 2001·139 cites·4 claims
- 0894US6803910B2Rendering compressed surface reflectance fields of 3D objectsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2002·Granted Oct 12, 2004·78 cites·6 claims
- 0994US6243098B1Volume rendering pipelinesTERARECON INC·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 5, 2001·118 cites·10 claims
- 1092US6903738B2Image-based 3D modeling rendering systemMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 7, 2005·84 cites·12 claims
- 1192US6556200B1Temporal and spatial coherent ray tracing for rendering scenes with sampled and geometry dataMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 29, 2003·140 cites·7 claims
- 1292US6008813AReal-time PC based volume rendering systemMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC INF TECH·Filed 1997·Granted Dec 28, 1999·108 cites·27 claims
- 1391US6639597B1Visibility splatting and image reconstruction for surface elementsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2000·Granted Oct 28, 2003·64 cites·18 claims
- 1490US7319467B2Skin reflectance model for representing and rendering facesMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 15, 2008·28 cites·12 claims
- 1590US7212664B2Constructing heads from 3D models and 2D silhouettesMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2003·Granted May 1, 2007·64 cites·11 claims
- 1690US6791542B2Modeling 3D objects with opacity hullsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 14, 2004·62 cites·24 claims
- 1790US6509902B1Texture filtering for surface elementsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2000·Granted Jan 21, 2003·61 cites·7 claims
- 1888US5760781AApparatus and method for real-time volume visualizationUNIV NEW YORK STATE RES FOUND·Filed 1997·Granted Jun 2, 1998·97 cites·19 claims
- 1987US7609906B2Method and system for acquiring and displaying 3D light fieldsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2006·Granted Oct 27, 2009·12 cites·8 claims
- 2087US7142726B2Three-dimensional scene reconstruction from labeled two-dimensional imagesMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LABS I·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 28, 2006·46 cites·20 claims
- 2184US6744435B2Rendering discrete sample points projected to a screen space with a continuous resampling filterMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2001·Granted Jun 1, 2004·43 cites·18 claims
- 2283US8565909B2Fabrication of materials with desired characteristics from base materials having determined characteristicsBICKEL BERND·Filed 2011·Granted Oct 22, 2013·23 cites·11 claims
- 2383US7324594B2Method for encoding and decoding free viewpoint videosMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 29, 2008·29 cites·24 claims
- 2482US6580425B1Hierarchical data structures for surface elementsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2000·Granted Jun 17, 2003·31 cites·18 claims
- 2581US6792140B2Image-based 3D digitizerMITSUBISH ELECTRIC RES LAB INC·Filed 2001·Granted Sep 14, 2004·32 cites·16 claims
- 2678US7609860B2Bilinear illumination model for robust face recognitionMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 27, 2009·14 cites·7 claims
- 2778US6448968B1Method for rendering graphical objects represented as surface elementsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 1999·Granted Sep 10, 2002·67 cites·20 claims
- 2877US7844106B2Method and system for determining poses of objects from range images using adaptive sampling of pose spacesMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2008·Granted Nov 30, 2010·12 cites·16 claims
- 2977US7609859B2Method and system for generating bi-linear models for facesMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 27, 2009·14 cites·8 claims
- 3077US6483507B2Super-sampling and gradient estimation in a ray-casting volume rendering systemTERARECON INC·Filed 2001·Granted Nov 19, 2002·24 cites·17 claims
- 3176US6211884B1Incrementally calculated cut-plane region for viewing a portion of a volume data set in real-timeMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 1998·Granted Apr 3, 2001·65 cites·11 claims
- 3275US7756356B2System and method for factorizing light in a sequence of imagesMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2007·Granted Jul 13, 2010·4 cites·15 claims
- 3375US6342885B1Method and apparatus for illuminating volume data in a rendering pipelineTERA RECON INC·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 29, 2002·75 cites·12 claims
- 3474US7218324B2Scene reflectance functions under natural illuminationMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2004·Granted May 15, 2007·18 cites·16 claims
- 3573US6831641B2Modeling and rendering of surface reflectance fields of 3D objectsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LABS I·Filed 2002·Granted Dec 14, 2004·17 cites·7 claims
- 3673US6407737B1Rendering a shear-warped partitioned volume data setTERARECON INC·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 18, 2002·52 cites·26 claims
- 3773US6342886B1Method for interactively modeling graphical objects with linked and unlinked surface elementsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 29, 2002·56 cites·14 claims
- 3871US9623608B2Fabrication of materials with desired characteristics from base materials having determined characteristicsDISNEY ENTPR INC·Filed 2013·Granted Apr 18, 2017·7 cites·18 claims
- 3971US7298372B2Sample rate adaptive filtering for volume renderingMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2004·Granted Nov 20, 2007·16 cites·12 claims
- 4071US6512517B1Volume rendering integrated circuitTERARECON INC·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 28, 2003·51 cites·22 claims
- 4171US6498607B1Method for generating graphical object represented as surface elementsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 1999·Granted Dec 24, 2002·49 cites·29 claims
- 4270US7426292B2Method for determining optimal viewpoints for 3D face modeling and face recognitionMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 16, 2008·24 cites·21 claims
- 4370US6466227B1Programmable architecture for visualizing sampled and geometry dataMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 1999·Granted Oct 15, 2002·46 cites·13 claims
- 4469US7194125B2System and method for interactively rendering objects with surface light fields and view-dependent opacityMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 20, 2007·14 cites·18 claims
- 4569US6532017B1Volume rendering pipelineTERARECON INC·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 11, 2003·47 cites·11 claims
- 4667US6396496B1Method for modeling graphical objects represented as surface elementsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 1999·Granted May 28, 2002·42 cites·16 claims
- 4765US6426749B1Method and apparatus for mapping reflectance while illuminating volume data in a rendering pipelineTERARECON INC·Filed 1999·Granted Jul 30, 2002·40 cites·7 claims
- 4865US6356265B1Method and apparatus for modulating lighting with gradient magnitudes of volume data in a rendering pipelineTERARECON INC·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 12, 2002·40 cites·6 claims
- 4962US7844105B2Method and system for determining objects poses from range imagesMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2007·Granted Nov 30, 2010·6 cites·16 claims
- 5061US7230620B2Rendering deformable and animated surface reflectance fieldsMITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB·Filed 2004·Granted Jun 12, 2007·9 cites·20 claims
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