Patents by Inventor Benjamin Robert Flanders

Benjamin Robert Flanders 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: 11995771
    Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches for automatically assigning weights to vertices of a skin or mesh that control how said vertices in the 3D model move under the influence of skeletal rotation and translation. A computing device can receive a first model weightings matrix. Next, the computing device can include adjusting the number of rows in the first model weightings matrix to generate an adjusted model weightings matrix with a number of rows that matches an input number of rows for a machine-learning model, each row in the adjusted model weightings matrix representing a vertex of a mesh applied to a three-dimensional model. Then, the computing device can apply the machine learning model to the adjusted model weightings matrix, to generate an output polygonal mesh model weightings matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
    Inventors: John L. Gibbs, Benjamin Robert Flanders, Dylan Scott Pozorski
  • Publication number: 20220406016
    Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches for automatically assigning weights to vertices of a skin or mesh that control how said vertices in the 3D model move under the influence of skeletal rotation and translation. A computing device can receive a first model weightings matrix. Next, the computing device can include adjusting the number of rows in the first model weightings matrix to generate an adjusted model weightings matrix with a number of rows that matches an input number of rows for a machine-learning model, each row in the adjusted model weightings matrix representing a vertex of a mesh applied to a three-dimensional model. Then, the computing device can apply the machine learning model to the adjusted model weightings matrix, to generate an output polygonal mesh model weightings matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: John L. Gibbs, Benjamin Robert Flanders, Dylan Scott Pozorski