Patent ID: 8930844
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G06T,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method using digital 3D models and/or textures in and for the remote rendering of photorealistic images upon a computer network, the method comprising: storing in one or more server computers upon a computer network a confidential collection of three-dimensional digital models of items which models permit photorealistic images of these items to be rendered; requesting at a client computer from the one or more server computers, and receiving, a relatively low resolution and non-confidential stand-in scene model, and using this model to develop a 3D scene that includes the item; and further formulating at this client computer upon the computer network a 3D scene file which contains (1) identities, and (2) any of sizes, locations, spatial orientations, colorations, patterns, textures and illuminations, of one or more items in the scene; wherein the client computer does not, have access to the confidential digital models of the identified items of resolution sufficient to render a photorealistic image thereof; sending the 3D scene file so formulated at the client computer from the client computer to the one or more server computers upon the computer network; receiving the formulated information at the one or more server computers, and using this information to first identify one or more corresponding confidential high resolution three-dimensional models and any of associated high-resolution patterns and colorations and textures, and to then using the one or more identified three-dimensional models and any associated patterns and colorations and textures along with the other scene file information to render a photorealistic image of the identified or more items located, spatially oriented, colored, patterned, textured and illuminated in the scene; wherein formulation and preview of the scene transpires at the client computer, but photorealistic rendering of the scene using, one or more confidential high resolution three-dimension models that reside solely on one or more servers, permits the remote photorealistic image rendering using the confidential models to transpire exclusively, and only, at the one or more server computers.