US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises, ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) on June 3 for "Techniques for improved lighting models for appearance capture" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,039, issued on June 3, was assigned to Disney Enterprises INC. (Burbank, Calif.) and ETH Zurich (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich) (Zurich).

"Techniques for improved lighting models for appearance capture" was invented by Paulo Fabiano Urnau Gotardo (Zurich), Derek Edward Bradley (Zurich), Gaspard Zoss (La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland), Jeremy Riviere (Zurich), Prashanth Chandran (Zurich) and Yingyan Xu (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a system for rendering an object, such as human skin or a human head, from captured appearance data comprising a plurality of texels. The system includes a pro...