US Patent Issued to Aurora Operations on Oct. 27 for "Virtual creation and visualization of physically based virtual materials" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,066, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc (Pittsburgh).

"Virtual creation and visualization of physically based virtual materials" was invented by Alex Harvill (Berkeley, Calif.), Allen Hemberger (Chicago) and Michael Fu (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Virtual creation and visualization of a physically based virtual material swatch includes identifying a capture device model to support for use in the generation of the virtual material swatch, determining camera response of the capture device model, determining lookup tables of linearly transformed cosines for a plurality of parameters of a shading m...