CLOTH ANIMATION MODELING

Patent №

US 6,532,014

Granted

2003-03-11

Filed 2000

Owner

MICROSOFT CORP.

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09483139

A model for cloth, which allows for substantially real-time animation of the cloth, is disclosed. The latitudinal (vertical) nodes of the model are decoupled from the longitudinal (horizontal) nodes in one embodiment. In one embodiment, the latitudinal nodes are modeled as physical splines, and the longitudinal nodes are modeled as stiff multi-section rods between adjacent latitudinal nodes. The model is then rendered.

AI hardwareG06T 13/20G06T 17/00G06T 2210/16

AI classification

AI hardware0.97
Machine learning0.22
Natural language0.01
Vision0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORP.

assignment · 107990610

Assignors

XU, YING-QING, SHUM, HEUNG-YEUNG, CHENG, CHI-YI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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