Patents by Inventor Michael B. COMET

Michael B. COMET 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: 10818059
    Abstract: Embodiments provide for sculpt transfer. Embodiments include identifying a source polygon of a source mesh that corresponds to a target polygon of a target mesh. Embodiments include determining a first matrix defining a first rotation that aligns a target rest state of the target polygon to a source rest state of the source polygon, determining a second matrix defining a linear transformation that aligns the source rest state to a source pose of the source polygon, wherein the linear transformation comprises rotating and stretching, determining a third matrix defining a second rotation that aligns the source pose to the target rest state, and determining a fourth matrix defining a third rotation that aligns the source rest state to the source pose. Embodiments include determining a target pose of the target polygon based on the target rest state, the first matrix, the second matrix, the third matrix, and the fourth matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Pixar
    Inventors: Fernando Ferrari De Goes, Alonso Martinez, Michael B. Comet, Patrick Coleman
  • Patent number: 10740968
    Abstract: Surface relaxation techniques are disclosed for smoothing the shapes of three-dimensional (3D) virtual geometry. In one embodiment, a surface relaxation application determines, for each of a number of vertices of a 3D virtual geometry, span-aware weights for each edge incident to the vertex based on the alignment of other edges incident to the vertex with an orthonormal frame of the edge constructed using a decal map. The surface relaxation application uses such span-aware weights to compute weighted averages that provide surface relaxation offsets. Further, the surface relaxation application may restore relaxation offsets from an original to a deformed geometry by determining relaxation offsets for both geometries and transferring the relaxation offsets from the original to the deformed 3D geometry using a blending of the determined relaxation offsets and a rotation. In another embodiment, volume is preserved by computing relaxation offsets in the plane and lifting relaxed vertices back to 3D.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Pixar
    Inventors: Fernando Ferrari De Goes, William F. Sheffler, Michael B. Comet
  • Publication number: 20190251745
    Abstract: Surface relaxation techniques are disclosed for smoothing the shapes of three-dimensional (3D) virtual geometry. In one embodiment, a surface relaxation application determines, for each of a number of vertices of a 3D virtual geometry, span-aware weights for each edge incident to the vertex based on the alignment of other edges incident to the vertex with an orthonormal frame of the edge constructed using a decal map. The surface relaxation application uses such span-aware weights to compute weighted averages that provide surface relaxation offsets. Further, the surface relaxation application may restore relaxation offsets from an original to a deformed geometry by determining relaxation offsets for both geometries and transferring the relaxation offsets from the original to the deformed 3D geometry using a blending of the determined relaxation offsets and a rotation. In another embodiment, volume is preserved by computing relaxation offsets in the plane and lifting relaxed vertices back to 3D.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Fernando Ferrari DE GOES, William F. SHEFFLER, Michael B. COMET