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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:
Jul. 11, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2003
Forrester Hardenbergh Cole, Manchester, MA (US);
Steven J. Gortler, Boston, MA (US);
Forrester Hardenbergh Cole, Manchester, MA (US);
Steven J. Gortler, Boston, MA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method and a system are presented to generate automatically factored approximations for arbitrary Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Functions (BRDFs). The method presented extends previous work to include a search over a space of 4D to 2D projections. Each set of projections defines a set of factors, which in turn defines an approximation error. This error is minimized using a conventional multi-dimensional search algorithm. A new representation for the projection functions is presented that allows efficient searching and enables the construction of a full approximation of a BRDF from the set of its optimal factors and the computation of reflectance values for arbitrary viewing angles using the function's full approximation.
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