Patents by Inventor Ming C. Lin

Ming C. Lin 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).

  • Publication number: 20260340945
    Abstract: Vector fields are used to model flows for many engineering applications. Various implementations relate to generating tangent vector fields on three-dimensional objects. In some implementations, a method may include receiving as input features a set of tangent vectors defined on vertices of a triangle mesh for a surface, each tangent vector represented as a complex number, transforming the set of tangent vectors using at least one vector diffusion block iteratively until a termination condition is met to generate a set of tangent vector fields defined on the vertices, wherein each vector diffusion block comprises a vector heat diffusion module and a vector-valued multi-layer perceptron, and outputting the set of tangent vector fields defined on the vertices as output features. A quadrilateral mesh may be generated for the surface based on the set of tangent of vector fields and used to render the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2026
    Publication date: October 29, 2026
    Applicant: Roblox Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Wang GAO, Maurice Kyojin CHU, Hsueh-Ti LIU, Mubbasir Turab KAPADIA, Ming C. LIN
  • Patent number: 10546433
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for modeling garments using single view images are disclosed. According to one method, the method includes receiving an image depicting a person wearing at least one garment. The method also includes constructing a body model based on the person in the image and a template from a body model database. The method further includes constructing at least one garment model based on the at least one garment in the image and at least one template from a garment model database. The method also includes constructing a combined model based on the body model and the at least one garment model. The method further includes adjusting the combined model by modifying body pose parameters and determining garment material properties and sizing parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Inventors: Ming C. Lin, Shan Yang
  • Publication number: 20190043269
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for modeling garments using single view images are disclosed. According to one method, the method includes receiving an image depicting a person wearing at least one garment. The method also includes constructing a body model based on the person in the image and a template from a body model database. The method further includes constructing at least one garment model based on the at least one garment in the image and at least one template from a garment model database. The method also includes constructing a combined model based on the body model and the at least one garment model. The method further includes adjusting the combined model by modifying body pose parameters and determining garment material properties and sizing parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Ming C. Lin, Shan Yang