Patents by Inventor Gerard Pons

Gerard Pons 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: 11017577
    Abstract: The invention comprises a learned model of human body shape and pose dependent shape variation that is more accurate than previous models and is compatible with existing graphics pipelines. Our Skinned Multi-Person Linear model (SMPL) is a skinned vertex based model that accurately represents a wide variety of body shapes in natural human poses. The parameters of the model are learned from data including the rest pose template, blend weights, pose-dependent blend shapes, identity-dependent blend shapes, and a regressor from vertices to joint locations. Unlike previous models, the pose-dependent blend shapes are a linear function of the elements of the pose rotation matrices. This simple formulation enables training the entire model from a relatively large number of aligned 3D meshes of different people in different poses. The invention quantitatively evaluates variants of SMPL using linear or dual quaternion blend skinning and show that both are more accurate than a BlendSCAPE model trained on the same data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
    Inventors: Michael J. Black, Matthew Loper, Naureen Mahmood, Gerard Pons-Moll, Javier Romero
  • Publication number: 20190392626
    Abstract: The invention comprises a learned model of human body shape and pose dependent shape variation that is more accurate than previous models and is compatible with existing graphics pipelines. Our Skinned Multi-Person Linear model (SMPL) is a skinned vertex based model that accurately represents a wide variety of body shapes in natural human poses. The parameters of the model are learned from data including the rest pose template, blend weights, pose-dependent blend shapes, identity-dependent blend shapes, and a regressor from vertices to joint locations. Unlike previous models, the pose-dependent blend shapes are a linear function of the elements of the pose rotation matrices. This simple formulation enables training the entire model from a relatively large number of aligned 3D meshes of different people in different poses. The invention quantitatively evaluates variants of SMPL using linear or dual quaternion blend skinning and show that both are more accurate than a BlendSCAPE model trained on the same data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Michael J. Black, Matthew Loper, Naureen Mahmood, Gerard Pons-Moll, Javier Romero
  • Patent number: 10395411
    Abstract: The invention comprises a learned model of human body shape and pose dependent shape variation that is more accurate than previous models and is compatible with existing graphics pipelines. Our Skinned Multi-Person Linear model (SMPL) is a skinned vertex based model that accurately represents a wide variety of body shapes in natural human poses. The parameters of the model are learned from data including the rest pose template, blend weights, pose-dependent blend shapes, identity-dependent blend shapes, and a regressor from vertices to joint locations. Unlike previous models, the pose-dependent blend shapes are a linear function of the elements of the pose rotation matrices. This simple formulation enables training the entire model from a relatively large number of aligned 3D meshes of different people in different poses. The invention quantitatively evaluates variants of SMPL using linear or dual-quaternion blend skinning and show that both are more accurate than a Blend SCAPE model trained on the same data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.
    Inventors: Michael J. Black, Matthew Loper, Naureen Mahmood, Gerard Pons-Moll, Javier Romero
  • Publication number: 20180315230
    Abstract: The invention comprises a learned model of human body shape and pose dependent shape variation that is more accurate than previous models and is compatible with existing graphics pipelines. Our Skinned Multi-Person Linear model (SMPL) is a skinned vertex based model that accurately represents a wide variety of body shapes in natural human poses. The parameters of the model are learned from data including the rest pose template, blend weights, pose-dependent blend shapes, identity-dependent blend shapes, and a regressor from vertices to joint locations. Unlike previous models, the pose-dependent blend shapes are a linear function of the elements of the pose rotation matrices. This simple formulation enables training the entire model from a relatively large number of aligned 3D meshes of different people in different poses. The invention quantitatively evaluates variants of SMPL using linear or dual-quaternion blend skinning and show that both are more accurate than a Blend SCAPE model trained on the same data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Michael J. BLACK, Matthew LOPER, Naureen MAHMOOD, Gerard PONS-MOLL, Javier ROMERO
  • Patent number: 4663658
    Abstract: This invention relates to a process and device for assisting positioning of workpieces by superposition of images, wherein there are displayed on a screen the image of the workpiece to be positioned and the image of a model positioned with respect to a marking system and the workpiece is displaced over its support until the image thereof is brought into superposition with the image of the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1987
    Assignee: Societe Nationale Industrielle et Aerospatiale
    Inventors: Maurice Lanne, Gerard Pons, Jacques Petit, Francis Pauly