Inventor · Culver City, CA, US

Paul E. Debevec

33Patents
9h-index
57Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 16, 1999 → Dec 12, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7436403B2 Performance relighting and reflectance transformation with time-multiplexed illumination Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 54 Expired
US6628298B1 Apparatus and method for rendering synthetic objects into real scenes using measurements of scene illumination Physics 45 Expired
US6685326B2 Realistic scene lighting simulation Electricity 44 Expired
US7044613B2 Realistic scene illumination reproduction Electricity 38 Expired
US6888552B2 High dynamic range image editing Physics 38 Expired
US8988599B2 Illumination sphere with intelligent LED lighting units in scalable daisy chain with interchangeable filters Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Active
US8902232B2 Facial performance synthesis using deformation driven polynomial displacement maps Physics 13 Active
US8300234B2 Estimating spectral distribution of reflections from object surface based on low frequency illumination Physics 12 Active
US7529004B2 Color matching in lighting reproduction systems Electricity 10 Expired
US7486299B2 High dynamic range image editing Physics 9 Active
US9123116B2 Multiview face capture using polarized spherical gradient illumination Physics 9 Active
US8432436B2 Rendering for an interactive 360 degree light field display Electricity 9 Active
US10375264B2 Multispectral lighting reproduction Physics 7 Active
US9443343B2 Method and apparatus for realistically reproducing eyeball Physics 7 Active
US6919962B2 Reflectometry apparatus and method Physics 7 Expired
US8134555B2 Acquisition of surface normal maps from spherical gradient illumination Physics 7 Active
US9562857B2 Specular object scanner for measuring reflectance properties of objects Physics 6 Active
US8264490B2 Practical modeling and acquisition of layered facial reflectance Physics 4 Active
US7978202B2 High dynamic range image editing Physics 4 Active
US10922878B2 Lighting for inserted content Electricity 3 Active
US10997457B2 Methods, systems, and media for relighting images using predicted deep reflectance fields Physics 2 Active
US10469831B2 Near-instant capture of high-resolution facial geometry and reflectance Electricity 2 Active
US11288844B2 Compute amortization heuristics for lighting estimation for augmented reality Physics 1 Active
US8605108B2 High dynamic range image editing Physics 1 Active
US10099644B2 Virtual head mounted video camera system Electricity 1 Active

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