Patents by Inventor Jessica Hodgins
Jessica Hodgins 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).
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Publication number: 20220237879Abstract: A method for training a real-time, direct clothing modeling for animating an avatar for a subject is provided. The method includes collecting multiple images of a subject, forming a three-dimensional clothing mesh and a three-dimensional body mesh based on the images of the subject, and aligning the three-dimensional clothing mesh to the three-dimensional body mesh to form a skin-clothing boundary and a garment texture. The method also includes determining a loss factor based on a predicted cloth position and garment texture and an interpolated position and garment texture from the images of the subject, and updating a three-dimensional model including the three-dimensional clothing mesh and the three-dimensional body mesh according to the loss factor. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions to cause the system to execute the above method are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Chenglei Wu, Fabian Andres Prada Nino, Timur Bagautdinov, Weipeng Xu, Jessica Hodgins, Donglai Xiang
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Patent number: 10262447Abstract: Systems and methods of virtual entity animation are presented herein. A virtual entity may have virtual skin defined by a model having a set of vertices. A skeletal-based skin deformation method of animation may be used wherein individual vertices in the model may have individually and independently determined centers of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Binh H. Le, Jessica Hodgins
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Publication number: 20180096510Abstract: Systems and methods of virtual entity animation are presented herein. A virtual entity may have virtual skin defined by a model having a set of vertices. A skeletal-based skin deformation method of animation may be used wherein individual vertices in the model may have individually and independently determined centers of rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: Binh H. Le, Jessica Hodgins
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Patent number: 9156159Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for optimizing and maintaining cyclic biped locomotion of a robot on an object. The approach includes simulating trajectories of the robot in contact with the object. During each trajectory, the robot maintains balance on the object, while using the object for locomotion. The approach further includes determining, based on the simulated trajectories, an initial state of a cyclic gait of the robot such that the simulated trajectory of the robot starting from the initial state substantially returns to the initial state at an end of one cycle of the cyclic gait. In addition, the approach includes sending joint angles and joint velocities of the initial state to a set of joint controllers of the robot to cause a leg of the robot to achieve the initial state so the robot moves through one or more cycles of the cyclic gait.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC.Inventors: Jessica Hodgins, Katsu Yamane, Yu Zheng
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Patent number: 9159362Abstract: A system and method for providing a plurality of frames from a video, the video having been taken from a first person's perspective, identifying patterns of attention depicted by living beings appearing in the plurality of frames, identifying social interactions associated with the plurality of frames using the identified patterns of attention over a period of time and using the identified social interactions to affect the subsequent use, storage, presentation, or processing of the plurality of frames.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Alizreza Fathi, Jessica Hodgins, James Rehg
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Patent number: 8947441Abstract: There is provided a system and method for database driven action capture. By utilizing low cost, lightweight MEMS devices such as accelerometers, a user friendly, wearable, and cost effective system for motion capture is provided, which relies on a motion database of previously recorded motions to reconstruct the actions of a user. By relying on the motion database, calculation errors such as integration drift are avoided and the need for complex and expensive positional compensation hardware is avoided. The accelerometers may be implemented in an E-textile embodiment using inexpensive off-the-shelf components. In some embodiments, compression techniques may be used to accelerate linear best match searching against the motion database. Adjacent selected motions may also be blended together for improved reconstruction results and visual rendering quality. Various perceivable effects may be triggered in response to the reconstructed motion, such as animating a 3D avatar, playing sounds, or operating a motor.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2010Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Jessica Hodgins, Ronit Slyper
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Publication number: 20140270707Abstract: A system and method for providing a plurality of frames from a video, the video having been taken from a first person's perspective, identifying patterns of attention depicted by living beings appearing in the plurality of frames, identifying social interactions associated with the plurality of frames using the identified patterns of attention over a period of time and using the identified social interactions to affect the subsequent use, storage, presentation, or processing of the plurality of frames.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Alireza Fathi, Jessica Hodgins, James Rehg
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Publication number: 20130238122Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for optimizing and maintaining cyclic biped locomotion of a robot on an object. The approach includes simulating trajectories of the robot in contact with the object. During each trajectory, the robot maintains balance on the object, while using the object for locomotion. The approach further includes determining, based on the simulated trajectories, an initial state of a cyclic gait of the robot such that the simulated trajectory of the robot starting from the initial state substantially returns to the initial state at an end of one cycle of the cyclic gait. In addition, the approach includes sending joint angles and joint velocities of the initial state to a set of joint controllers of the robot to cause a leg of the robot to achieve the initial state so the robot moves through one or more cycles of the cyclic gait.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2012Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Jessica HODGINS, Katsu YAMANE, Yu ZHENG
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Publication number: 20100309209Abstract: There is provided a system and method for database driven action capture. By utilizing low cost, lightweight MEMS devices such as accelerometers, a user friendly, wearable, and cost effective system for motion capture is provided, which relies on a motion database of previously recorded motions to reconstruct the actions of a user. By relying on the motion database, calculation errors such as integration drift are avoided and the need for complex and expensive positional compensation hardware is avoided. The accelerometers may be implemented in an E-textile embodiment using inexpensive off-the-shelf components. In some embodiments, compression techniques may be used to accelerate linear best match searching against the motion database. Adjacent selected motions may also be blended together for improved reconstruction results and visual rendering quality. Various perceivable effects may be triggered in response to the reconstructed motion, such as animating a 3D avatar, playing sounds, or operating a motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2010Publication date: December 9, 2010Applicant: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Jessica Hodgins, Ronit Slyper
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Publication number: 20080071507Abstract: A method for a computer system includes receiving global positional data associated with a set of markers from a plurality of markers associated with a surface of an object at one or more time instances, wherein global positional data associated with a first marker from the plurality of markers is absent from a first time instance, using local statistical methods to determine global positional data associated with the first marker at the first time instance in response to the global positional data associated with the set of markers at the one or more time instances, and determining a model of the object in response to the global positional data associated with the set of markers and the global positional data associated with the first marker.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2007Publication date: March 20, 2008Applicants: Carnegie Mellon University, Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Jessica Hodgins, Sang Park
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Patent number: 5936638Abstract: A system generates and arranges animation sequences of articulated characs for review and selection by a user. Motion of articulated characters is based upon input parameters, such as torques at joints of the character. The system can be used to select appropriate parameters to obtain desirable motion of the articulated characters. The system generates a set of input vectors containing parameters of the motion. The input parameters are then processed to determine animation sequences and corresponding output vectors. The output vectors include characteristics of the motion. The input vectors are selected to provide a dispersed set of output vectors. A large number of random input vectors can be generated and then culled to leave a dispersed set of output vectors. Alternatively, a set of randomly generated input vectors of a predetermined size are randomly perturbed, to further disperse the output vectors.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1997Date of Patent: August 10, 1999Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center America, Inc. (ITA)Inventors: Jessica Hodgins, Joseph Marks, Brian Mirtich