Patents by Inventor Hiroshii Ishii

Hiroshii Ishii 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).

  • Methods and apparatus for visualizing volumetric data using deformable physical object
    Patent number: 8064684
    Abstract: An interface that allows a user to explore complex three dimensional datasets. The user manipulates a physical modeling material that defines the geometry of a surface that intersects a voxel dataset and the intersected voxel values are projected back onto the surface of the physical material as image data. A position sensor captures position data specifying the geometry of the surface, a processor compares the array of data values with the captured position data to identify selected ones of these data values whose position in the array corresponds to the geometry of the surface, and a projector for illuminates the surface with an image representative of the data at the array/surface intersection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Carlo Filippo Ratti, Benjamin Tarquinn Fielding Piper, Yao Wang, Hiroshii Ishii
  • Methods and apparatus for visualizing volumetric data using deformable physical object
    Publication number: 20040207652
    Abstract: An interface that allows a user to explore complex three dimensional datasets. The user manipulates a physical modeling material that defines the geometry of a surface that intersects a voxel dataset and the intersected voxel values are projected back onto the surface of the physical material as image data. A position sensor captures position data specifying the geometry of the surface, a processor compares the array of data values with the captured position data to identify selected ones of these data values whose position in the array corresponds to the geometry of the surface, and a projector for illuminates the surface with an image representative of the data at the array/surface intersection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Carlo Filippo Ratti, Benjamin Tarquinn Fielding Piper, Yao Wang, Hiroshii Ishii