Patents by Inventor Holly Edith Rushmeier

Holly Edith Rushmeier 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).

  • System and method for hole filling in 3D models
    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
  • Scalable parallel algorithm for self-organizing maps with applications to sparse data mining problems
    Patent number: 6260036
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for retrieving and organizing data using a self-organizing map in a parallel transaction data base system. With this invention, input records of data are represented as n dimensional vectors. Each of these vectors then compressed by eliminating zeros in the components of these vectors. Then, the self-organizing map algorithm is applied to the compressed input records to group the records into a number of clusters, where each cluster comprises a number of records having common input parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Inventors: George S. Almasi, Richard Douglas Lawrence, Holly Edith Rushmeier
  • Acquiring bump maps from curved objects
    Patent number: 5974168
    Abstract: A method and system for obtaining and processing acquired images of an object to extract a small scale geometry (a bump map) of the object that is independent of object curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Holly Edith Rushmeier, Gabriel Taubin, Andre Pierre Gueziec