Patents by Inventor Jordan Philip Smith

Jordan Philip Smith 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).

  • Method, apparatus and computer program product enabling a dynamic global parameterization of triangle meshes over polygonal domain meshes
    Patent number: 7528832
    Abstract: A method, a data storage medium storing a computer program, and a data processing system are disclosed to process data comprised of a triangulated mesh representation of an object. The method includes establishing a continuous bijective mapping between a first triangle mesh representation of the object and a second polygonal mesh representation of the object during the application of at least one mesh connectivity operation selected from a set of mesh connectivity operations. Establishing the mapping includes using a set of charts where an individual chart encodes a mapping of a single face of the second polygonal mesh representation to a plurality of triangles of the first triangle mesh representation that the single face of the second mesh representation overlaps with parametrically. The method further includes updating at least one chart of the set of charts in response to each application of the at least one mesh connectivity operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jordan Philip Smith, Ioana M. Boier-Martin
  • Method, apparatus and computer program product enabling a dynamic global parameterization of triangle meshes over polygonal domain meshes
    Patent number: 7310097
    Abstract: A method, a data storage medium storing a computer program, and a data processing system are disclosed to process data comprised of a triangulated mesh representation of an object. The method includes establishing a continuous bijective mapping between a first triangle mesh representation of the object and a second polygonal mesh representation of the object during the application of at least one mesh connectivity operation selected from a set of mesh connectivity operations. Establishing the mapping includes using a set of charts where an individual chart encodes a mapping of a single face of the second polygonal mesh representation to a plurality of triangles of the first triangle mesh representation that the single face of the second mesh representation overlaps with parametrically. The method further includes updating at least one chart of the set of charts in response to each application of the at least one mesh connectivity operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jordan Philip Smith, Ioana M. Boier-Martin