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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2021
Applicant:
Cesium Gs, Inc., Philadelphia, PA (US);
Inventors:
Kangning Li, North Wales, PA (US);
Sean Lilley, Exton, PA (US);
Assignee:
CESIUM GS, INC., Philadelphia, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/05 (2011.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01); G06T 15/04 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/05 (2013.01); G06T 15/04 (2013.01); G06T 17/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory media of the various embodiments may include encoding localized terrain modifications into one or more heightmaps, which are used to modify the vertices of the world-wide terrain map at runtime using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). Various embodiments apply displacement to dynamic terrain surfaces, such as time dynamic surfaces, animated surfaces, Hierarchical Level-of-Detail (HLOD) surfaces, and surfaces suitable for interactive user editing, at a global scale.