Patents Assigned to Thomson Broadband Systems
  • Patent number: 6031538
    Abstract: The generation of images is done by the computation of the motion vectors representing the evolution from one image 2D to the other, directly from the co-ordinates and coefficients of geometrical transformation, of associated points in the 3D scene. The applications relate to the generation of monocular sequences by temporal interpolation and of stereoscopic sequences by extrapolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Thomson Broadband Systems
    Inventors: Bertrand Chupeau, Laurent Blonde, Jean-Christophe Dusseux, Philippe Bordes
  • Patent number: 5923331
    Abstract: A method of generation of computer images of a three-dimensional scene constituted by a set of facets, viewed from a point of observation along a viewing axis. The facets are projected on the surface of a sphere whose center is the point of observation of the scene and wherein the surface of the sphere is divided in a special way into elementary surfaces, each corresponding to a pixel on the spherical surface, in such a manner that the orthogonal projections of the elementary surfaces on a reference plane passing through the point of observation and perpendicular to the viewing axis of the scene all have same value. An application is the generation of visibility or distance images. Another application is radiosity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Thomson Broadband Systems
    Inventors: Jean-Christophe Dusseux, Laurent Blonde