Inventor

Hanspeter Pfister

Inventor

Somerville, MA, US

Overview

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Patents

1997–2020

Patent span

Physics

Primary field (CPC G)

Patents· 56 as inventor

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

G06Tprimary

G06TImage data processing or generation, in general72%

H04NPictorial communication, e.g. television9%

G06VImage or video recognition or understanding7%

G06FElectric digital data processing4%

B29CShaping or joining of plastics3%

B33YAdditive manufacturing, i.e. manufacturing of three-dimensional [3d] objects by additive deposition, additive agglomeration or additive layering, e.g. by 3d printing, stereolithography or selective laser sintering3%

G01NInvestigating or analysing materials by determining their chemical or physical properties1%

PatentTitleYear

10,726,591Narrative visualization system2020 9,623,608'Fabrication of materials with desired characteristics from base materials having determined characteristics'2017 8,565,909'Fabrication of materials with desired characteristics from base materials having determined characteristics'2013 8,044,994'Method and system for decoding and displaying 3D light fields'2011 7,916,934'Method and system for acquiring, encoding, decoding and displaying 3D light fields'2011 7,844,105'Method and system for determining objects poses from range images'2010 7,844,106'Method and system for determining poses of objects from range images using adaptive sampling of pose spaces'2010 7,756,356'System and method for factorizing light in a sequence of images'2010 7,609,860'Bilinear illumination model for robust face recognition'2009 7,609,859'Method and system for generating bi-linear models for faces'2009 7,609,906'Method and system for acquiring and displaying 3D light fields'2009 7,599,555'System and method for image matting'2009 7,426,292'Method for determining optimal viewpoints for 3D face modeling and face recognition'2008 7,324,594'Method for encoding and decoding free viewpoint videos'2008 7,319,467'Skin reflectance model for representing and rendering faces'2008 7,298,372'Sample rate adaptive filtering for volume rendering'2007 7,230,620'Rendering deformable and animated surface reflectance fields'2007 7,218,324'Scene reflectance functions under natural illumination'2007 7,215,340'Object space EWA splatting of point-based 3D models'2007 7,212,664'Constructing heads from 3D models and 2D silhouettes'2007 7,194,125'System and method for interactively rendering objects with surface light fields and view-dependent opacity'2007 7,142,726'Three-dimensional scene reconstruction from labeled two-dimensional images'2006 6,903,738'Image-based 3D modeling rendering system'2005 6,831,641'Modeling and rendering of surface reflectance fields of 3D objects'2004 6,803,910'Rendering compressed surface reflectance fields of 3D objects'2004 6,791,542'Modeling 3D objects with opacity hulls'2004 6,792,140'Image-based 3D digitizer'2004 6,744,435'Rendering discrete sample points projected to a screen space with a continuous resampling filter'2004 6,639,597'Visibility splatting and image reconstruction for surface elements'2003 6,583,787'Rendering pipeline for surface elements'2003 6,580,425'Hierarchical data structures for surface elements'2003 6,556,200'Temporal and spatial coherent ray tracing for rendering scenes with sampled and geometry data'2003 6,532,017'Volume rendering pipeline'2003 6,512,517'Volume rendering integrated circuit'2003 6,509,902'Texture filtering for surface elements'2003 6,498,607'Method for generating graphical object represented as surface elements'2002 6,483,507'Super-sampling and gradient estimation in a ray-casting volume rendering system'2002 6,480,190'Graphical objects represented as surface elements'2002 6,466,227'Programmable architecture for visualizing sampled and geometry data'2002 6,448,968'Method for rendering graphical objects represented as surface elements'2002 6,426,749'Method and apparatus for mapping reflectance while illuminating volume data in a rendering pipeline'2002 6,411,296'Method and apparatus for applying modulated lighting to volume data in a rendering pipeline'2002 6,407,737'Rendering a shear-warped partitioned volume data set'2002 6,396,496'Method for modeling graphical objects represented as surface elements'2002 6,356,265'Method and apparatus for modulating lighting with gradient magnitudes of volume data in a rendering pipeline'2002 6,353,677'Rendering objects having multiple volumes and embedded geometries using minimal depth information'2002 6,342,885'Method and apparatus for illuminating volume data in a rendering pipeline'2002 6,342,886'Method for interactively modeling graphical objects with linked and unlinked surface elements'2002 6,262,740'Method for rendering sections of a volume data set'2001 6,243,098'Volume rendering pipelines'2001 6,219,061'Method for rendering mini blocks of a volume data set'2001 6,211,884'Incrementally calculated cut-plane region for viewing a portion of a volume data set in real-time'2001 6,008,813'Real-time PC based volume rendering system'1999 5,903,274'System for color and opacity transfer function specification in volume rendering'1999 5,760,781'Apparatus and method for real-time volume visualization'1998 5,594,842'Apparatus and method for real-time volume visualization'1997

Career & activity timeline

Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.

1997–1998Based in Stony Brook, NY, US· patent location history

1999Patents assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC INF TECH (2)· patent assignee history

1999–2004Based in Somerville, MA, US· patent location history

2001–2011Patents assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB (35)· patent assignee history

2001–2003Patents assigned to TERARECON INC (10)· patent assignee history

2004–2006Patents assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LABS I (2)· patent assignee history

2004–2020Based in Arlington, MA, US· patent location history

2013–2020Patents assigned to DISNEY ENTPR INC (3)· patent assignee history

Inventor activity

Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.

Assignees

Assignee	Patents	Span
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LAB	35	2001–2011
TERARECON INC	10	2001–2003
DISNEY ENTPR INC	3	2013–2020
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC INF TECH	2	1999
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RES LABS I	2	2004–2006

Locations

Location	Patents	Span
Somerville, Massachusetts, US	28	1999–2004
Arlington, Massachusetts, US	26	2004–2020
Stony Brook, New York, US	2	1997–1998