Patents by Inventor Patrice HIRTZLlN

Patrice HIRTZLlN 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: 20140253561
    Abstract: The invention is related to a method for processing a computer-animated scene, the computer-animated scene being represented with at least an animation graph, at least an animation graph comprising a plurality of nodes connected by paths, the paths being representative of dependencies between the nodes, at least an event being associated with each node, a first information representative of the type of each event being associated with each node. As to optimize the parallelization of the nodes, the method comprises a step of classifying the nodes in at least a first batch and at least a second batch according to the first information associated with each node, at least a first batch comprising nodes to be evaluated in parallel and at least a second batch comprising nodes to be evaluated sequentially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: THOMSON LICENSING
    Inventors: Jean-Eudes MARVIE, Patrice HIRTZLlN, Olivier MOCQUARD