Patents by Inventor David E. Breen

David E. Breen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of deriving mesh surface representation from volume representation
    Patent number: 6828966
    Abstract: A method of extracting a mesh representation of a surface from a volumetric representation of at least a portion of an object is provided. A surface is derived from the volumetric representation. A seed point on the surface is then selected, and a neighborhood of the seed point is grown over at least a portion of the surface. These selection and growing steps are iteratively repeated until the entire surface is substantially completely covered. Seed points are then selectively connected to form polygons which comprise the mesh representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Marcel Gavriliu, Joel Carranza, David E. Breen, Alan H. Barr