Patents by Inventor Mickeal VERSCHOOR

Mickeal VERSCHOOR 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).

  • Computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for simulating the behaviour of a hand that interacts with objects in a virtual environment
    Patent number: 11093037
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for simulating the behavior of a hand interacting with objects in a virtual environment is provided, having acquiring a skeleton of a tracked hand using a hand-tracking device; computing a simulated hand interacting with objects in a virtual environment; establishing a coupling between the skeleton of a simulated hand and the tracked skeleton using coupling energies (Ucrb); establishing an internal energy of the simulated hand that accounts for joint constraints of the skeleton, skeleton-tissue coupling, and nonlinear soft-tissue deformation; establishing frictional contact between the simulated hand and virtual objects using a penalty energy considering relative interpenetration at contact points and a frictional energy considering the deviation between each contact point and its corresponding sliding anchor point; computing an updated skeleton and tissue of the simulated hand by minimizing the total energy involved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS
    Inventors: Mickeal Verschoor, Miguel Angel Otaduy Tristran, Daniel Lobo Cuenca
  • COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SIMULATING THE BEHAVIOUR OF A HAND THAT INTERACTS WITH OBJECTS IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20200393899
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for simulating the behavior of a hand interacting with objects in a virtual environment is provided, having acquiring a skeleton of a tracked hand using a hand-tracking device; computing a simulated hand interacting with objects in a virtual environment; establishing a coupling between the skeleton of a simulated hand and the tracked skeleton using coupling energies (Ucrb); establishing an internal energy of the simulated hand that accounts for joint constraints of the skeleton, skeleton-tissue coupling, and nonlinear soft-tissue deformation; establishing frictional contact between the simulated hand and virtual objects using a penalty energy considering relative interpenetration at contact points and a frictional energy considering the deviation between each contact point and its corresponding sliding anchor point; computing an updated skeleton and tissue of the simulated hand by minimizing the total energy involved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Mickeal VERSCHOOR, Miguel Angel OTADUY TRISTRAN, Daniel LOBO CUENCA