Patents by Inventor Clint Hanson

Clint Hanson 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 apparatus for the digital creation of fur effects
    Patent number: 8704841
    Abstract: A system and method to generate digital representations of hair or animal fur on surfaces. In one embodiment the system and method includes methods to automatically place hairs on surfaces, comb the placed hairs, adjust the hairs on surface boundaries to ensure continuity across surface patches, selectively break hairs along fur tracks, and selectively clump hairs to provide wet fur looks. Rendering techniques are applied to the hairs to produce realistic two-dimensional images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Armin Walter Bruderlin, Clint Hanson
  • Method and apparatus for the digital creation of fur effects
    Publication number: 20060158453
    Abstract: A system and method to generate digital representations of hair or animal fur on surfaces. In one embodiment the system and method includes methods to automatically place hairs on surfaces, comb the placed hairs, adjust the hairs on surface boundaries to ensure continuity across surface patches, selectively break hairs along fur tracks, and selectively clump hairs to provide wet fur looks. Rendering techniques are applied to the hairs to produce realistic two-dimensional images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Armin Bruderlin, Clint Hanson