Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphics processing – Three-dimension
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-09
2011-08-09
Richer, Aaron M (Department: 2628)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Computer graphics processing
Three-dimension
Reexamination Certificate
active
07995058
ABSTRACT:
In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for determining an illumination field in an image. The method comprises the steps of identifying uniform and linear tokens in the image and utilizing the uniform and linear tokens to identify an illumination field.
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Friedhoff Richard Mark
Maxwell Bruce Allen
Smith Casey Arthur
D'Arienzo, Jr. Felix L.
Davidson Davidson & Kappel LLC
Richer Aaron M
Tandent Vision Science, Inc.
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