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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:
Oct. 04, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 06, 1999
Applicant:
Armin Walter Bruderlin, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Inventor:
Armin Walter Bruderlin, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Culver City, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T017/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method to generate digital representations of hair or animal fur on surfaces. In one embodiment the system and method includes methods to automatically place hairs on surfaces, comb the placed hairs, adjust the hairs on surface boundaries to ensure continuity across surface patches, selectively break hairs along fur tracks, and selectively clump hairs, to provide wet fur looks. Rendering techniques are applied to the hairs to produce realistic two-dimensional images.