Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8116591 | Diffusion-based interactive extrusion of two-dimensional images into three-dimensional models Methods and systems for creating three-dimensional models from two-dimensional images are provided. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of creating a polygon-based three-dimensional (3D) model from a two-dimensional (2D) pixel-based image invo... | 02/14/2012 |
| 7995863 | Diffusion-based interactive extrusion of two-dimensional images into three-dimensional models Methods and systems for creating three-dimensional models from two-dimensional images are provided. According to one embodiment, a method of creating an inflatable icon involves a vectorizing module polygonizing an input image to produce an inflatable image by repre... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7630580 | Diffusion-based interactive extrusion of 2D images into 3D models Systems and methods are provided for performing diffusion-based image extrusion. According to one embodiment, a three dimensional model is created by polygonizing an input image to produce an inflatable image. The input image may be either a 2D image or icon or a 3D... | 12/08/2009 |
