Patents by Inventor Hisham Emad El-Din ElShishiny

Hisham Emad El-Din ElShishiny 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: 7358969
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method and system and computer program for decomposing a triangle mesh representing the surface of a digital object model, reconstructed from 3D scanning data, into a small number of height-field patches (partitions) (in the order of the number of the original scans) with reasonable angular variations with the direction from which the viewer is looking at the digital object and with boundaries as regular as possible, in order to map a texture. The present method uses the original scan information (even when scans are divided into two or more connected meshes), but without selecting a single scan per mesh area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Hisham Emad El-Din Elshishiny
  • Publication number: 20080052398
    Abstract: Email is classified by generating a fuzzy membership function based on calculated weighted factors related to the persons identified in the “From;”, “To:” and “cc:” fields of the email together with the persons identified in emails already present in the folders of the user's email system. The fuzzy membership function is used to allocate the email to the folder whose emails most frequently identify the persons identified in the email in question, in the roles specified for those persons in the email in question, and based on the distribution of those persons among folders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hisham Emad El-Din Elshishiny
  • Patent number: 7272264
    Abstract: A method for hole-filling in 3D models includes identifying vertices adjacent to hole boundaries in a mesh of points on a digital image and constructing a signed distance function based on vertices adjacent to hole boundaries. A Radial Basis Function is fit based on the constructed signed distance function and evaluated on a grid, which include the hole. The points on the hole surface are extracted and meshed to fill the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hisham Emad El-Din ElShishiny, Fausto Bernardini, Holly Edith Rushmeier