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Discrete element texture synthesis

US8698829B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

Li-Yi Wei · Redwood City, US
Chongyang Ma · Los Angeles, US
Xin Tong · Beijing, CN

Key dates

Filing date	May 28, 2010
Grant date	Apr 15, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 15, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T11/001
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Output textures may be generated by synthesizing an input texture comprising discrete elements with a set of boundary conditions. Elements of the input texture are copied from the input texture to an output texture that is defined by a set of boundary conditions and are then refined. The elements of the output texture are refined by assigning domain and/or attribute information to the elements of the output texture element by minimizing an energy function measuring a similarity between output neighborhoods of the output texture and a corresponding best matching input neighborhood of the input texture.

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