G06T 15/50
Lighting effects
G06T15/50 (Lighting effects) appears on 4,733 US grants and 5,083 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06T- Granted patents
- 4,733
- Published applications
- 5,083
- Assignees
- 1,187
- Inventors
- 7,996
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 3 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 4 | 0 |
| 1987 | 5 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 0 |
| 1989 | 14 | 0 |
| 1990 | 14 | 0 |
| 1991 | 8 | 0 |
| 1992 | 12 | 0 |
| 1993 | 13 | 0 |
| 1994 | 31 | 0 |
| 1995 | 25 | 0 |
| 1996 | 26 | 0 |
| 1997 | 22 | 0 |
| 1998 | 37 | 0 |
| 1999 | 48 | 0 |
| 2000 | 49 | 0 |
| 2001 | 54 | 24 |
| 2002 | 85 | 83 |
| 2003 | 78 | 109 |
| 2004 | 103 | 85 |
| 2005 | 86 | 114 |
| 2006 | 120 | 102 |
| 2007 | 94 | 112 |
| 2008 | 57 | 97 |
| 2009 | 80 | 110 |
| 2010 | 75 | 93 |
| 2011 | 89 | 93 |
| 2012 | 110 | 103 |
| 2013 | 96 | 141 |
| 2014 | 122 | 197 |
| 2015 | 173 | 292 |
| 2016 | 195 | 207 |
| 2017 | 257 | 268 |
| 2018 | 243 | 286 |
| 2019 | 306 | 312 |
| 2020 | 368 | 365 |
| 2021 | 330 | 291 |
| 2022 | 263 | 316 |
| 2023 | 270 | 371 |
| 2024 | 276 | 329 |
| 2025 | 292 | 329 |
| 2026 | 189 | 254 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for generating creative sketches using models guided by sketches and text6 Oct 2026US 12,755,450 B2Carnegie Mellon University
- Enhanced image generation6 Oct 2026US 12,755,481 B2Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
- Virtual shadowing with dimming map6 Oct 2026US 12,755,482 B2Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Rendering a 3D garment preview29 Sep 2026US 12,745,814 B2Levi Strauss & Co.
- Systems and methods for dynamically, automatically generating and/or filtering shadow maps in a video game29 Sep 2026US 12,746,467 B2Activision Publishing, Inc.
- Artificial intelligence techniques for extrapolating hdr panoramas from ldr low fov images8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311299 A1Adobe Inc.
- Extracting physically-based rendering (pbr) materials using video diffusion models8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311422 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Neural view-dependent principled brdf adapter8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311423 A1Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Displaying a representation of a digital card with a visual effect8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311424 A1Apple Inc.
- Rendering 3d curves using orthogonal triangle strips8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311425 A1NVIDIA Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Virtual and augmented reality systems and methods701US 9,791,700 B2Magic Leap, Inc. · 2017
- Surface aware lens501US 10,242,503 B2Snap Inc. · 2019
- Generating an avatar from real time image data496US 9,508,197 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC · 2016
- Generating an avatar from real time image data492US 9,697,635 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC · 2017
- Online modeling for real-time facial animation491US 9,378,576 B2faceshift AG · 2016