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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8115767 | Computer graphics shadow volumes using hierarchical occlusion culling Techniques, systems, arrangements, and computer program products are operable in computer graphics systems to make shadow volumes more general with respect to the meshes that can serve as occluding geometry in such computer graphics systems, as well as for accelerat... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8102394 | Computer graphics using meshless finite elements for light transport Computer graphics methods, systems, apparatus and computer program code (software) products comprise: constructing a sparse implicit scene representation, wherein the representation is independent of geometric encoding and complexity of the input scene description, ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099487 | Systems and methods for determining placement of virtual machines Systems and methods are provided for determining an optimized placement for a virtual machine in a virtualized environment on the basis of available performance metrics, in which the virtualized environment includes at least two virtual machines, each hosting at lea... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8049753 | Computer graphics methods and systems for generating images with rounded corners Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer program/software code products, operable in a computer graphics system designed to render images and to apply shading to images, enable the following: during rendering of an image, modifying the shading normal in the region ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7952583 | Quasi-monte carlo light transport simulation by efficient ray tracing Methods, systems, devices and computer program code (software) products operable within a computer graphics system or other computer system enable quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) light transport simulation by ray tracing: and include constructing a bounding interval hierarc... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7824955 | Hybrid beam deposition system and methods for fabricating metal oxide-ZnO films, p-type ZnO films, and ZnO-based II-VI compound semiconductor devices A hybrid beam deposition (HBD) system and methods according to the present invention utilizes a unique combination of pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique and equipment with equipment and techniques that provide a radical oxygen rf-plasma stream to effectively in... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7779032 | Forensic feature extraction and cross drive analysis Computer-based systems and methods enable analysts to manage and explore the information that hard drives and other storage devices or sources of data may contain, and for extracting forensic features and performing cross drive analysis. ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7773088 | Simultaneous simulation of markov chains using quasi-monte carlo techniques Methods, systems, apparatus and computer software/computer code products operable to enable computer graphics systems to simulate Markov chains (and thus trajectories of photons and the like) comprise simulating, and/or means for simulating, Markov chains using a qu... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7764285 | Computer graphics systems and methods for encoding subdivision triangular surfaces A system is described for generating a plurality of identifiers, each associated with one of a like plurality of subdivision surfaces of a surface element, and for generating, using an identifier for a subdivision surface, coordinates for the subdivision surface. Ea... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7760202 | System and method for generating pixel values for pixels in an image using strictly deterministic methodologies for generating sample points A computer graphics system generates pixel values for pixels in an image of objects in a scene, using strictly-deterministic low-discrepancy sequences, illustratively Halton sequences, as sample points for evaluating integrals which are used to simulate a number of ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7659894 | Terminating spatial partition hierarchies by a priori bounding memory The present invention provides methods, systems and computer program code (software) products for terminating spatial partition hierarchies and other hierarchies by a priori bounding. ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7653006 | Network traffic capture and replay with transaction integrity and scaling Network traffic capture/replay systems, devices, apparatus, computer program code products and methods can include (1) extracting from the network traffic and scaling a plurality of sessions, (2) enabling asymmetrical scaling, wherein a client is cloned to generate ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7620989 | Network testing methods and systems Network vulnerability testing methods, systems, devices, appliances and software products generate stateful and stateless network representative of network threats. The traffic is applied to a network or device under test, thereby to test the vulnerability of the ne... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7616198 | System and computer-implemented method for modeling the three-dimensional shape of an object by shading of a two-dimensional image of the object A computer graphics system generates a three-dimensional model of an object in an interactive manner under control of an operator. An initial model for the object to be modeled is displayed to the operator as illuminated from a particular illumination direction and ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7589729 | Image synthesis by rank-1 lattices Systems and techniques are described in which rank-1 lattices are used in computerized image processing, in particular in the context of image synthesis. These include systems and techniques for selection of rank-1 lattices, rasterization on rank-1 lattices, anti-al... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7562009 | Linguistic processing platform, architecture and methods A system and method for natural language processing comprises a blackboard data structure for providing a shared knowledge repository over which a collection of natural language agents can execute processes on the processable data form, each agent being capable of p... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7548238 | Computer graphics shader systems and methods Methods and systems are described that unite various shading applications under a single language, enable the simple re-use and re-purposing of shaders, facilitate the design and construction of shaders without need for computer programming, and enable the graphical... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7531849 | High performance FET devices An epitaxially layered structure with gate voltage bias supply circuit element for improvement in performance for semiconductor field effect transistor (FET) devices utilizes a structure comprised of a substrate, a first layer semiconductor film of either an n-type ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7516170 | Computer graphics systems and methods using stratification by rank-1 lattices A computer program product for a computer graphics system comprises computer executable instructions recorded on a computer-readable medium: instructions executable to enable the computer to generate a selected number of sample points over an integration domain, suc... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7515151 | Generating images using sub-domain photon maps Computer graphics apparatus, methods, systems and program products (the term “programs” can include a product consisting of computer-readable program instructions encoded on a computer readable medium) are operable to generate pixel values for pixels in an image... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7499054 | Generating images using multiple photon maps Computer graphics apparatus, methods, systems and program products (the term “programs” can include a product consisting of computer-readable program instructions encoded on a computer readable medium) operable to generate pixel values for pixels in an image, an... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499053 | Real-time precision ray tracing Systems and techniques are described for ray tracing and for the efficient construction of acceleration data structures required for fast ray tracing. A computer graphics system generates, for each pixel in an image, a pixel value that is representative of a point i... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7495664 | Instant ray tracing Methods, systems, devices and computer program products operable in a computer graphics system include constructing a hierarchical ray tracing acceleration data structure comprising a tree structure, the nodes of which are generated utilizing a bounding interval hie... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7479962 | System and method for generating pixel values for pixels in an image using strictly deterministic methodologies for generating sample points A computer graphics system generates pixel values for pixels in an image of objects in a scene, using strictly-deterministic low-discrepancy sequences, illustratively Halton sequences, as sample points for evaluating integrals which are used to simulate a number of ... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7453461 | Image generation using low-discrepancy sequences A computer graphics system generates a pixel value for a pixel in an image and displays a human-perceptible image on an LCD CRT or other display device based on an electrical output generated in response to the pixel value, the pixel being representative of a point ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453460 | System and method for generating pixel values for pixels in an image using strictly deterministic methodologies for generating sample points A computer graphics system generates a pixel value for a pixel in an image, the pixel being representative of a point in a scene as recorded on an image plane of a simulated camera. The computer graphics system comprises a sample point generator and a function evalu... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7453457 | Computer graphics using coarse level meshes Computer graphics systems, devices and methods adapted to enable display and/or storage of human-perceptible images on a display, device include an arrangement for generating a coarse level mesh representing a surface, from a finer level mesh surface representation.... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7437284 | Methods and systems for language boundary detection Disclosed are methods and systems for detecting boundaries between areas of different languages in a body of text. ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432935 | Image synthesis methods and systems for generating sample points in a graphics scene The invention provides systems and computer-implemented methods for evaluating integrals using quasi-Monte Carlo methodologies, and in particular embodiments, adaptive quasi-Monte Carlo integration and adaptive integro-approximation in conjunction with techniques in... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7425957 | Computer graphics methods and systems using quasi-monte carlo methodology A computer graphics system generates a pixel value for a pixel in an image, the pixel value being representative of a point in a scene as recorded on an image plane of a simulated camera, the computer graphics system comprising a sample point generator and a functio... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7423641 | Computer graphics systems and methods generating smooth feature lines for subdivision surfaces Computer graphics systems and methods are provided for generating a representation of a feature in a surface defined by a mesh representation, the mesh comprising at a selected level a plurality of points including at least one point connected to a plurality of neig... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7400324 | Computer graphics systems and methods for encoding subdivision triangular surfaces A system is described for generating a plurality of identifiers, each associated with one of a like plurality of subdivision surfaces of a surface element, and for generating, using an identifier for a subdivision surface, coordinates for the subdivision surface. Ea... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7358971 | Generating images using ray tracing and ray tree generated using low-discrepancy sequences Computer graphics apparatus, methods and systems and program products operable to generate and display human-perceptible images, comprise a ray tracer operable to generate a ray tree, the ray tree comprising a primary ray shot along a selected direction and a plural... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7288912 | Debris sensor for cleaning apparatus A piezoelectric debris sensor and associated signal processor responsive to debris strikes enable an autonomous or non-autonomous cleaning device to detect the presence of debris and in response, to select a behavioral mode, operational condition or pattern of movem... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7283657 | Method and system for automatically orienting a spherical object A system, methods and apparatus for rapidly and automatically orienting spherical objects, such as game balls, for subsequent downstream processing comprises a series of processing steps that can be performed at four separate, mechanically similar (or even identical... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7267862 | Controlled COF films Disclosed are methods and compositions of films using selected blends of primary and secondary fatty amide additives at critical ratios, which enable the primary fatty amides to interact favorably with the secondary amides so as to provide controlled COF and other u... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7236171 | Generating images using a sub-domain photon map methodology A computer graphics system generates a pixel value for an image using a selected ray-tracing methodology in which simulated rays are shot from the pixel into a scene, the simulated rays representing paths of simulated photons, the pixel value being representative of... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230618 | Generating images using multiple photon maps A computer graphics system generates a pixel value for a pixel in an image, the pixel value being representative of a point in a scene as recorded on an image plane of a simulated camera, the computer graphics system comprising a photon map generator, a sample point... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7043493 | Hierarchical file system and anti-tearing algorithm for a limited-resource computer such as a smart card A limited resource computer such as one based upon an integrated circuit card (“smart card”) or embedded processor employs a full hierarchical file system consistent with desktop and laptop computers, thereby enabling the full execution of application programs. ... | 05/09/2006 |
