G06T 15/506
Illumination models
Official title: {Illumination models}
G06T15/506 (Illumination models) appears on 1,318 US grants and 1,674 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06T- Granted patents
- 1,318
- Published applications
- 1,674
- Assignees
- 479
- Inventors
- 2,935
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 10 | 0 |
| 2001 | 11 | 6 |
| 2002 | 22 | 21 |
| 2003 | 22 | 31 |
| 2004 | 18 | 17 |
| 2005 | 12 | 26 |
| 2006 | 32 | 17 |
| 2007 | 23 | 25 |
| 2008 | 14 | 14 |
| 2009 | 18 | 21 |
| 2010 | 10 | 13 |
| 2011 | 12 | 11 |
| 2012 | 16 | 23 |
| 2013 | 11 | 21 |
| 2014 | 22 | 49 |
| 2015 | 32 | 122 |
| 2016 | 41 | 57 |
| 2017 | 57 | 77 |
| 2018 | 61 | 74 |
| 2019 | 86 | 98 |
| 2020 | 113 | 119 |
| 2021 | 103 | 90 |
| 2022 | 92 | 126 |
| 2023 | 91 | 170 |
| 2024 | 120 | 151 |
| 2025 | 128 | 160 |
| 2026 | 107 | 135 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Virtual and augmented reality systems and methods701US 9,791,700 B2Magic Leap, Inc. · 2017
- Pipelined lighting model processing system for a graphics workstation's shading function183US 4,866,637 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1989
- Method for changing a natural image based on a light environment in the natural image155US 5,572,635 AHitachi, Ltd. · 1996
- Cache-efficient processor and method of rendering indirect illumination using interleaving and sub-image blur134US 9,129,443 B2NVIDIA Corporation · 2015
- Aligning rectilinear images in 3D through projective registration and calibration121US 6,434,265 B1Apple Computers, Inc. · 2002