Patents by Inventor Allen R. Tannenbaum

Allen R. Tannenbaum 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).

  • Patent number: 6697538
    Abstract: A computerized apparatus and associated method and program code on a storage medium, for producing a flattening map of a digitized image. This image may be initially synthetically produced as discrete data or as quasi-discrete image data of a real object—and the original image data may be stored as two-, three-, or four-dimensional dynamic coordinate data. Once produced, the flattening map can be conformally mapped onto the computer generated surface (whether 2-D, 3-D, or any of the dynamically-varying family of surfaces) for display on a computer-assisted display apparatus in communication with a processor. The apparatus and associated method and program code include constructing a first set of data comprising a plurality of discrete surface-elements to represent at least a portion of a surface of the digitized image, and performing a flattening function on the first set of data to produce the flattening map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Sigurd B. Angenent, Allen R. Tannenbaum, Steven Haker, Ron Kikinis