Patents by Inventor Aurel GRUBER

Aurel GRUBER 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).

  • Techniques for sculpting digital faces based on anatomical modeling
    Patent number: 11645813
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for creating digital faces. In some examples, an anatomical face model is generated from a data set including captured facial geometries of different individuals and associated bone geometries. A model generator segments each of the captured facial geometries into patches, compresses the segmented geometry associated with each patch to determine local deformation subspaces of the anatomical face model, and determines corresponding compressed anatomical subspaces of the anatomical face model. A sculpting application determines, based on sculpting input from a user, constraints for an optimization to determine parameter values associated with the anatomical face model. The parameter values can be used, along with the anatomical face model, to generate facial geometry that reflects the sculpting input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignees: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., ETH ZÜRICH (EIDGENÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZÜRICH)
    Inventors: Aurel Gruber, Marco Fratarcangeli, Derek Edward Bradley, Gaspard Zoss, Dominik Thabo Beeler
  • TECHNIQUES FOR SCULPTING DIGITAL FACES BASED ON ANATOMICAL MODELING
    Publication number: 20220005268
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for creating digital faces. In some examples, an anatomical face model is generated from a data set including captured facial geometries of different individuals and associated bone geometries. A model generator segments each of the captured facial geometries into patches, compresses the segmented geometry associated with each patch to determine local deformation subspaces of the anatomical face model, and determines corresponding compressed anatomical subspaces of the anatomical face model. A sculpting application determines, based on sculpting input from a user, constraints for an optimization to determine parameter values associated with the anatomical face model. The parameter values can be used, along with the anatomical face model, to generate facial geometry that reflects the sculpting input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Aurel GRUBER, Marco FRATARCANGELI, Derek Edward BRADLEY, Gaspard ZOSS, Dominik Thabo BEELER