Inventor · Hartsdale, NY, US

Gabriel Taubin

31Patents
17h-index
27Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 29, 1994 → Apr 9, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5546475A Produce recognition system Physics 355 Expired
US5631976A Object imaging system Electricity 184 Expired
US6445389B1 Compression of polygonal models with low latency decompression Physics 133 Expired
US7847799B2 Bi-level iso-surface compression Physics 131 Active
US7230616B2 Bi-level iso-surface compression Physics 129 Expired
US5974168A Acquiring bump maps from curved objects Physics 122 Expired
US6009435A Progressive compression of clustered multi-resolution polygonal models Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 70 Expired
US6968299B1 Method and apparatus for reconstructing a surface using a ball-pivoting algorithm Physics 49 Expired
US5905507A Compression of geometric models using spanning trees Physics 47 Expired
US5506947A Curve and surface smoothing without shrinkage Physics 43 Expired
US5825369A Compression of simple geometric models using spanning trees Physics 43 Expired
US6452596B1 Methods and apparatus for the efficient compression of non-manifold polygonal meshes Physics 42 Expired
US6031548A Progressive multi-level transmission and display of triangular meshes Physics 38 Expired
US6184897A Compressed representation of changing meshes and method to decompress Physics 35 Expired
US6455835B1 System, method, and program product for acquiring accurate object silhouettes for shape recovery Physics 30 Expired
US6016153A Method to convert non-manifold polyhedral surfaces into manifold surfaces Physics 26 Expired
US6987511B2 Linear anisotrophic mesh filtering Physics 20 Expired
US6307551A Method for generating and applying changes in the level of detail of a polygonal surface Physics 12 Expired
US7167173B2 Method and structure for image-based object editing Physics 8 Expired
US7174050B2 Space-optimized texture maps Physics 7 Expired
US6943790B2 Dual mesh resampling Physics 6 Expired
US7136077B2 System, method, and article of manufacture for shading computer graphics Physics 5 Expired
US10008007B2 Method for generating an array of 3-D points Physics 3 Active
US6356262B1 System and method for fast polyhedral cell sorting Physics 3 Expired
US7623992B2 Volume warping for adaptive isosurface extraction Physics 1 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.