Quotables
"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys."
Sir William Preece, chief engineer, British Post Office ; 1878
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127179 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR USER INTERFACE Provided herein are a method, apparatus and computer program product for conveying to a user of a mobile terminal the correct manner in which a finger should be located and moved to achieve a repeatable and reliable fingerprint scan. In particular, the method of example... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130637 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING ROAD SEGMENTS AND METHOD OF PROVIDING A MAP DATA BASE A method and device for displaying road segments are provided. The method uses a map data base storing information on a road network in a road vector data format. Additional parameter values are stored for a subset of road segments. Information on a direction vector and... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120069025 | DISPLAYING INTERCONNECTS HAVING AN APPEARANCE INDICATING DATA CHARACTERISTICS A method for determining a depth ordering between two planes in a 3D workspace of an application is provided. The method includes projecting vectors from a reference position through points of interest on the planes, determining corresponding points on the other plane, ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120038673 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING RUNNING DIRECTION OF FIBROUS TISSUE In order to be able to easily obtain a color FA image in which the same fibrous tissue has the same color display even if images are captured in a state in which the position of an object relative to an MRI apparatus is different, a diffusion tensor is configured using ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120032962 | POLYLINE VERTEX REDUCTION Data is received that describes a polyline having a first endpoint, a second endpoint, and a plurality of intermediate vertices, each of the intermediate vertices lying between the first endpoint and the second endpoint. An estimation line segment is drawn between the f... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120013619 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUALIZING MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATA USING SHAPE ATTRIBUTES There is provided a method and system for visualizing multi-dimensional data on a user interface of a computing device, each dimension of the data having a plurality of values defining the associated values of the data for the dimension. The method comprises receiving m... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013616 | COMPUTER GRAPHICS VIDEO SYNTHESIZING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND DISPLAY DEVICE A CG image combining device generates a CG image by mapping an image to an object. A memory unit stores shape data and a pair of left-view and right-view image data. A determination unit refers to the shape data to evaluate a curvature of the object's surface from norma... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110311094 | TECHNIQUES TO VERIFY LOCATION FOR LOCATION BASED SERVICES Techniques to verify a participant's visit to a specific location are described. An embodiment may provide a system that generates a pattern that is unique to the location, and that may further be unique to a date or time, a transaction, or other criteria. Participants ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304643 | Ink Rendering Ink rendering techniques are described. In an implementation, an input is recognized by one or more modules that are executable on one or more processors of a computing device as an ink stroke to be rendered by a display device of the computing device. The ink stroke is... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110304628 | PIPE RECONSTRUCTION FROM UNORGANIZED POINT CLOUD DATA A method, system, apparatus, article of manufacture, and computer readable storage medium provide the ability to reconstruct a pipe from point cloud data. Point cloud data is obtained. Primitive geometric shapes are detected in the point cloud data. A pipeline is determ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110292050 | GENERATING ANIMATED VORONOI TREEMAPS TO VISUALIZE DYNAMIC HIERARCHICAL DATA WITH NODE INSERTION Methods and apparatus are disclosed for generating animated treemaps, such as Voronoi treemaps, with node insertion to visualize dynamic hierarchical data. A treemap is processed by obtaining a multi-level tessellation having a plurality of existing regions; and inserti... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110285717 | METHOD FOR GENERATING MANOEUVRE GRAPHICS IN A NAVIGATION DEVICE A technique for controlling a navigation device to generate a navigation manoeuvre graphics for a road junction manoeuvre is proposed. A device embodiment of this technique comprises a routing module adapted to provide routing information pertaining to a scheduled route... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110267355 | System, Apparatus and Method for Mapping The present invention provides a novel apparatus and method for mapping of urban regions. An apparatus includes the remote sensing equipment that is connected to a computer processor. The remote sensing equipment gathers imaging data about an urban region. The computer ... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110267370 | DRAWING LAYER CONTROL DEVICE A drawing layer control device includes a drawing frequency monitoring unit 104 for monitoring drawing update frequency of each window. When drawing update frequencies of windows allocated to the same layer differ, a drawing layer managing unit 105 realloc... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110267354 | IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, IMAGE GENERATING METHOD, AND IMAGE GENERATING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT To provide an image generating apparatus which can reduce a calculation amount by effectively utilizing a cache resource. The image generating apparatus (700) which generates a graphics image by rendering a polygon includes: a coordi... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110264370 | Method and system for displaying navigation information and mapping content on an electronic map A method for displaying object vector indicators (“OVI”) and mapping-media content, referencing map-objects (“MO”) on an electronic map, the method including determining that at least one MO is outside a visible area of a displayed map, creating an OVI to refere... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110261058 | METHOD FOR USER INPUT FROM THE BACK PANEL OF A HANDHELD COMPUTERIZED DEVICE The present invention relates to a handheld computerized device with a bit mapped display screen on the front panel, and a touchpad installed on the back panel. More particularly, the invention relates to a method and graphical user interface that enable the user to see... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110249008 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A COMPUTER MODEL TO DISPLAY A POSITION OF A PERSON Generating a computer model to display a position of a person in a defined location is disclosed. A method includes the operation of selecting a substantially overhead image of a defined location having spatial coordinates. A perimeter of the defined location is marked ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110249007 | COMPUTER RENDERING OF DRAWING-TOOL STROKES A drawing-tool renderer provides real-time rendering of lines with the look of artistic line drawings. A tip of a drawing tool (e.g., pencil) can be modeled as a constellation of points representing locations on the surface (or within the volume) of the tip. For a given... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110234599 | SWING DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD A swing display device includes a CPU which calculates and produces synchronizing signal relative to the length of the message to be displayed. Learning the speed of the synchronizing signal, the user swings the swing display device back-and-forth according to the synch... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110227928 | Online Barcode Directory and Systems for Facilitating Transactions Utilizing the Same An online directory of people, businesses and products which is accessible by a user is described herein. Each person, business or product may be associated with a unique visual identifier such as a barcode which facilitates transactions between the parties. Moreover, t... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110216068 | Edge processing techniques In some embodiments, an edge cache data table for edges shared by two or more geometrically contiguous patches is generated. An identification value is assigned for each patch. When a first patch has a common edge with a second patch, a unique identification value is ge... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110216069 | Method And System For Compressing Tile Lists Used For 3D Rendering A graphics processing device may generate coordinates for vertices of graphics primitives in a view-space. Tiles are defined within the view-space and are associated with tile lists. Primitives and/or vertices which overlap a tile are determined. Tile lists comprise dif... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110205232 | VECTOR IMAGE DRAWING DEVICE, VECTOR IMAGE DRAWING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A vector image drawing device has the following configuration. A contour generation unit (104), based on vector data, generates contour data that represents the starting pixels on a scan line in a drawing area where fill-in starts, and the ending pixels where fil... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110187719 | MAP DATA, MAP DATA PRODUCTION METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM AND NAVIGATION APPARATUS A map data production method is disclosed. The method includes: dividing a record target map area into meshes; creating mesh-unit data elements as groups of mesh-unit data elements so that the groups respectively correspond to the meshes, and each group of mesh-unit dat... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110181600 | STRUCTURED ARRANGEMENT OF VISUAL ENDPOINTS The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for structured arrangement of visual endpoints in diagrams. Generally, endpoint arrangements are consistently used on shapes in a domain (diagram type) based on common information flow char... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110175916 | VECTORIZATION OF LINE DRAWINGS USING GLOBAL TOPOLOGY AND STORING IN HYBRID FORM An animation system can vectorize an image by generating, from an input drawing, a dataset corresponding to vector and digital representations of the input drawing such that a rendering engine could render an image having features in common with the input drawing from t... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110178621 | METHOD FOR GENERATING AND BUILDING SUPPORT STRUCTURES WITH DEPOSITION-BASED DIGITAL MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS A method for generating data for a support structure to be built with a deposition-based digital manufacturing system, the method comprising generating a convex hull polygon based on a boundary polygon of a layer of the support structure, offsetting the convex hull poly... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110169838 | Generation of Constrained Voronoi Grid In A Plane A computer-implemented method for generating a constrained Delaunay triangulation for a planar domain with boundaries and internal features. The boundaries and internal features of the domain are approximated with polylines. Unconstrained Delaunay triangulation is const... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110157031 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DRAWING LINES IN ELECTRONIC BOOK USING ELECTRONIC BOOK READER An e-book reader includes a touch screen, a touch screen control module connected to the touch screen, and a drawing line module. The drawing line module includes a transparent window unit and a line trace recording unit. The line trace recording unit is connected to th... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110148884 | System and method for determining motion of a subject A system and method of generating a representation or alteration of a subject. One or more devices may be attached to a subject, and a first signal transmitted towards the subject, the first signal interacting with the one or more devices to produce a second signal. The... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110141119 | Electronic paper terminal device; computer-readable medium storing image display control program, and image display control method In an electronic paper terminal device, a drawing order determination unit analyzes an image to be displayed, and determines priority of each line. A priority storage unit stores the priority of each line determined by the drawing order determination unit. A drawing uni... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110141118 | DATA VISUALIZATION METHODS A method of creating a graphical representation of data in the form of a heatmap, the method including the steps of: positioning data points on a heatmap for graphical representation, calculating conical data distribution values around a data point based on a data value... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110122139 | TWO DIMENSIONAL VECTOR GRAPHICS TRIANGULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF A two dimensional (2D) vector graphics triangulation system and a method thereof are provided. The system includes a memory module and a triangle mesh processing module. The memory module temporarily stores a triangle mesh triangulated from a 2D vector graphics into a b... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110122140 | DRAWING DEVICE AND DRAWING METHOD Provided is a drawing device which reduces an increase in computing amount when filtering is performed and does not require consideration of drawing order of a graphic object and a shadow shape. A drawing device (600) includes: a rasterization result storage unit... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110096075 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CREATING SHAPE COLLAGES A method, system and computer program product for creating shape collages are provided. The method includes receiving a shape specification signal which specifies at least one desired shape having an area. The method further includes receiving image data which represent... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110074789 | INTERACTIVE DENDROGRAM CONTROLS Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for analyzing and presenting, e.g., displaying, a set of data. Analyzing the data can include grouping or clustering data that are similar in some way, e.g., similar ranges of quantities, similar categories, etc. ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110071803 | System and Method of Sub-Surface System Design and Installation The system and method of the present invention provides comprehensive design and installation management for agricultural water management systems. Maps and grade profiles are created from data collected by Global Positioning devices in the field. Latitude, longitude, a... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110063301 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL RENDERING OF A MAP An approach is provided for customizing map presentations. A semantic mapping platform determines context information for rendering a map on a user device. The semantic mapping platform then classifies a plurality of objects available for display in the map based on a l... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110050706 | Modifying Graphical Paths A computing device includes a memory configured to store images and associated timing data. The computing device also includes a processor configured to execute instructions to perform a method that includes producing a graphical path on a digital map that represents po... | 03/03/2011 |
