Patents by Inventor Jon Kyl

Jon Kyl 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: 12579707
    Abstract: An interactive tile-based ML terrain generation method is disclosed. At a first phase of a painting of a digital environment using a brush tool, a modification to a terrain surface of the digital environment is approximated. The approximating includes decomposing a stroke of the brush tool into one or more stamps. Each of the one or more stamps changes a height of a portion of terrain surface as the brush tool passes over the portion of the terrain surface. At a second phase of the painting of the digital environment, details are added to the portion of the terrain surface passed over by each of the one or more stamps. The adding of the details includes dividing work associated with the adding of the details into one or more tiles and processing the one or more tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: Unity Technologies ApS
    Inventors: Jeremy Weston Cowles, Jon Kyl, Scott Brandon Peterson, Sahil Ramani, Kristofer David Schlachter, Rahul Vallivel Subbiah, Natalya Tatarchuk
  • Publication number: 20230360284
    Abstract: An interactive tile-based ML terrain generation method is disclosed. At a first phase of a painting of a digital environment using a brush tool, a modification to a terrain surface of the digital environment is approximated. The approximating includes decomposing a stroke of the brush tool into one or more stamps. Each of the one or more stamps changes a height of a portion of terrain surface as the brush tool passes over the portion of the terrain surface. At a second phase of the painting of the digital environment, details are added to the portion of the terrain surface passed over by each of the one or more stamps. The adding of the details includes dividing work associated with the adding of the details into one or more tiles and processing the one or more tiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Jeremy Weston Cowles, Jon Kyl, Scott Brandon Peterson, Sahil Ramani, Kristofer David Schlachter, Rahul Vallivel Subbiah, Natalya Tatarchuk