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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2024
Adobe Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Fujun Luan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zexiang Xu, San Jose, CA (US);
Miloš Hašan, Lafayette, CA (US);
Iliyan Atanasov Georgiev, London, GB;
Liwen Wu, La Jolla, CA (US);
Bing Xu, San Diego, CA (US);
Ravi Ramamoorthi, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Adobe Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
In implementation of techniques for sampling light directions on neural materials, a computing device implements a light direction system to receive neural features of a material and an indication of a view direction toward the material. Using a mixture of analytical lobes, a normalizing flow, or a histogram prediction, the light direction system predicts a probability density function (PDF). The light direction system then samples the PDF, calculates prominence values for each of a plurality of candidate light directions based on the PDF, and determines a light direction based on the prominence values.