Patents by Inventor Claudia Kuster

Claudia Kuster 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 and system for image processing in video conferencing
    Patent number: 9684953
    Abstract: A method for image processing in video conferencing, for correcting the gaze of an interlocutor in an image or a sequence of images captured by at least one real camera, comprises the steps of the at least one real camera acquiring an original image of the interlocutor; synthesizing a corrected view of the interlocutor's face as seen by a virtual camera, the virtual camera being located on the interlocutor's line of sight and oriented towards the interlocutor; transferring the corrected view of the interlocutor's face from the synthesized view into the original image, thereby generating a final image; at least one of displaying the final image and transmitting the final image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignees: ETH Zurich, The Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd.
    Inventors: Claudia Kuster, Tiberiu Popa, Jean-Charles Bazin, Markus Gross, Craig Gotsman
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE PROCESSING IN VIDEO CONFERENCING
    Publication number: 20150009277
    Abstract: A method for image processing in video conferencing, for correcting the gaze of an interlocutor in an image or a sequence of images captured by at least one real camera, comprises the steps of the at least one real camera acquiring an original image of the interlocutor; synthesizing a corrected view of the interlocutor's face as seen by a virtual camera, the virtual camera being located on the interlocutor's line of sight and oriented towards the interlocutor; transferring the corrected view of the interlocutor's face from the synthesized view into the original image, thereby generating a final image; at least one of displaying the final image and transmitting the final image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicants: ETH Zürich, The Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd.
    Inventors: Claudia Kuster, Tiberiu Poppa, Jean-Charles Bazin, Markus Gross, Craig Gotsman
  • COMPUTER RENDERING OF DRAWING-TOOL STROKES
    Publication number: 20110249007
    Abstract: A drawing-tool renderer provides real-time rendering of lines with the look of artistic line drawings. A tip of a drawing tool (e.g., pencil) can be modeled as a constellation of points representing locations on the surface (or within the volume) of the tip. For a given point on a line being rendered, the location of the point and corresponding tool-tip parameters are used to determine which points in the tool tip model touch which portions of the paper. The effect of pigment transfer on cell color is modeled realistically. Various parameters of the model can be tuned to achieve a desired balance between rendering speed and accuracy of the simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Claudia Kuster, Johannes Schmid, Robert Sumner, Markus Gross