US Patent Issued to Adobe on Oct. 20 for "Parametric hair model for digital hair generation" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,314, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Parametric hair model for digital hair generation" was invented by Yi Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Zhixin Shu (San Jose, Calif.), Xin Sun (Palo Alto, Calif.), Fujun Luan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Chengan He (New Haven, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In implementations of techniques and systems for digital hair generation using a parametric hair model, a processing device receives a shape parameter and a style parameter. The shape parameter represents the overall shape of a hair model, and the style parameter represents local strand details. Based on the shape par...