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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188995 | Methods and appratus for estimating cell radius in a mobile telecommunications network Methods and arrangements for provide for an estimation of a cell radius in a mobile telecommunications network. The arrangement comprises a processor which estimates path loss by using an arbitrary path loss estimation method wherein at least a pre-defined cell radi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8164892 | Mobile terminal A mobile terminal includes a casing having a battery accommodation portion where a battery is installed and a battery stopper accommodation groove is recessively formed in a side thereof, a battery cover detachably coupled to the casing to cover the battery accommod... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8149234 | Picture processing using a hybrid system configuration A system is presented that is configured to reduce power consumption when performing processing tasks. The system includes a first processing entity capable of performing a set of operations, and a second processing entity configured to consume less power than the f... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8134551 | Frontend for universal rendering framework Embodiments of the invention provide a renderer-agnostic method for representing materials independently from an underlying rendering engine. Advantageously, materials libraries may be extended with new materials for rendering with an existing rendering engine and i... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130219 | Metadata for avatar generation in virtual environments A method of provisioning avatars comprises receiving at a first computer system associated with a first user, a metadata file relating to an avatar of a second user. In particular, the metadata file comprises data for use with an avatar generator process that is in ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8106903 | System and method for visually representing a project using graphic elements An element template system allowing users to define a named set of element symbology properties to be associated with a graphic element is provided. When the element template is active, it sets the active drawing settings to match the template and associates newly c... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094148 | Texture processing apparatus, method and program A texture processing apparatus includes a CG data acquisition unit acquiring calculator graphics (CG) data including CG model data, camera data, light data, texture data items, and a preset emphasis parameter for texture mapping processing, the CG model data, the ca... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8037015 | Flexible interface using scalable vector graphics with metalevel palette The present invention provides a method and system of storing information for drawing an object on a computer system that includes providing a palette file that includes a set of first labels matched with numerical values, tagging a vector graphics file for drawing ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8022946 | Wipe pattern generation apparatus A wipe pattern generation apparatus that can generate wipe patterns of various shapes at high speed and moreover can be miniaturized. is provided. A wipe pattern generation apparatus 100 includes a sin θ generation section 101 for calculating s... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018452 | Incremental update of complex artwork rendering Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for incrementally updating the rendering of an artwork. In one aspect, a method includes first drawing a first portion of an artwork in a view, accepting input to draw a second portion of the artw... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8009163 | Graphics generation device comprising means for monitoring its operation A device for the graphical generation of symbologies intended for a display screen, the device having functions for the generation of symbology elements and means for monitoring its correct operation. The monitoring of correct operation allowing the use of certain o... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7995053 | Drawing device A drawing device that includes a triangle detecting unit specifying a triangle to be drawn and specifying a pixel block having a pixel of the triangle and includes a B-edge detecting unit judging whether or not the pixel block specified by the triangle detecting uni... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7969432 | Providing for application integrity, improved start-up time, and reduced memory utilitization in a safety-critical graphics processing environment At least one of graphics operation description information or graphics object description information (106) is included within application logic (102). At least one of the graphics operation description information or graphics object description inform... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7969431 | Graphical program node for generating a measurement program A system and method for performing a measurement task. A node is displayed in a graphical program, and configured to receive a measurement task specification (MTS). The node may be coupled to an MTS node, or to a configuration node which constructs the MTS at run ti... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965288 | Method and system for defining and controlling algorithmic elements in a graphics display system An API is provided that enables programmability of a 3D chip, wherein programming or algorithmic elements written by the developer can be downloaded to the chip, thereby programming the chip to perform those algorithms. A developer writes a routine that is downloada... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7944441 | Compression and decompression of data using plane equations The present invention provides a scheme for compressing and decompressing the depth, or Z, components of image data. Image data is grouped into a plurality of tiles. A test is performed to determine if a tile can be compressed so that its size after compression is l... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941742 | Visualizing growing time series data in a single view To visualize growing time series data, first data values of a time series are presented for display in a single view, where the data values are for display in cells according to a first density in the view. Additional data values of the time series are received, and... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7932902 | Emitting raster and vector content from a single software component Technologies are described herein for emitting raster and vector content from a single software component. An application program maintains an in-memory representation of a document in an intermediate format. When the application program needs to render the document... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7928976 | Telestrator system A telestrator system is disclosed that allows a broadcaster to annotate video during or after an event. For example, while televising a sporting event, an announcer (or other user) can use the present invention to draw over the video of the event to highlight one or... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7903108 | Method for accelerated determination of occlusion between polygons The invention describes a method and system for use in occlusion culling of polygons in an interactive environment, such as a game. The invention employs a boundary box to simplify the testing of occludee polygons. Occluders and occludees are also transformed into n... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7884817 | Method and system for defining and controlling algorithmic elements in a graphics display system An API is provided that enables programmability of a 3D chip, wherein programming or algorithmic elements written by the developer can be downloaded to the chip, thereby programming the chip to perform those algorithms. A developer writes a routine that is downloada... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7839399 | System and method for volumetric display of video images extracted from arbitrary background environments A system and method for volumetric display of video images extracted from arbitrary background environments comprising an arrangement for extracting a video image in real time from an arbitrary background and creating a stream of extracted image data in response the... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7825922 | Temporary lines for writing A user is provided with guidelines that are temporarily displayed with content, in order to assist the user in accurately writing electronic ink. The guidelines may appear when the user moves a writing tool close to a display and writing surface. Alternately, the gu... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7821513 | System and method for analyzing modeling accuracy while performing reverse engineering with 3D scan data An automated mechanism for measuring the amount of accuracy loss attributable to reverse engineering processes that use 3D scan data is discussed. The embodiments provide a mechanism that displays to a user the effect scan data editing and CAD remodeling operations ... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7808498 | CAD data evaluation method and evaluation apparatus The apparatus has an evaluated value calculating means 102 for calculating the complexity of the object shape and the complexity of the modeling structure of the object CAD data input by the CAD data inputting means 101; a searching means 104 fo... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7800607 | Method and system for defining and controlling algorithmic elements in a graphics display system An API is provided that enables programmability of a 3D chip, wherein programming or algorithmic elements written by the developer can be downloaded to the chip, thereby programming the chip to perform those algorithms. A developer writes a routine that is downloada... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7800606 | Method and system for defining and controlling algorithmic elements in a graphics display system An API is provided that enables programmability of a 3D chip, wherein programming or algorithmic elements written by the developer can be downloaded to the chip, thereby programming the chip to perform those algorithms. A developer writes a routine that is downloada... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7782316 | Method and system for defining and controlling algorithmic elements in a graphics display system An API is provided that enables programmability of a 3D chip, wherein programming or algorithmic elements written by the developer can be downloaded to the chip, thereby programming the chip to perform those algorithms. A developer writes a routine that is downloada... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7750901 | Telestrator system A telestrator system is disclosed that allows a broadcaster to annotate video during or after an event. For example, while televising a sporting event, an announcer (or other user) can use the present invention to draw over the video of the event to highlight one or... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7724249 | Terminal equipment for merging imaging data and text data, and transmitting and receiving the same on-line Terminal equipment for electronically making patent and utility patent applications. The terminal equipment converts various formats of text data generated by an external device into the internal format of the terminal equipment, retrieves the converted text data, m... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7714855 | Volume rendering processing distribution in a graphics processing unit An intersection of a cut plane with a proxy geometry representing a scan volume is determined with a processor. The intersection is simplified, such as identifying a quadrilateral or triangle most closely enclosing the intersection. The vertex processor of a GPU def... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7716227 | Visually representing series data sets in accordance with importance values A method comprises determining an importance value for each series data set among a plurality of series data sets and visually representing each of the series data sets in accordance with the importance values. ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7679615 | Calculating three-dimensional (3D) Voronoi diagrams Systems and methods for computing three-dimensional (3D) Euclidean Voronoi diagrams are disclosed. For some embodiments, a set of 3D objects is accessed, in which each 3D object is mathematically defined. Thereafter, a Voronoi region associated with each of the 3D o... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675513 | System and method for displaying stereo images A method for displaying a stereo eye image on a curved surface is disclosed. A mathematical model of a computer generated scene having a vertex may be generated. A mono vertex vector may be calculated normal to the curved surface at the vertex location on the curved... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7667698 | Image display system for displaying an adjustable widened virtual image An image display apparatus with a display device for displaying images and a viewing device for viewing an image in the left eye and a different image in the right eye. Two smaller images, a left image and a right image, are created from the same two-dimensional ima... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7656400 | Image data editing device and method, and image data display and method A method and a device for converting data of a first format discriminated by an identifier into picture data of a second format different from the first format. In converting the data of the first format into the picture data of the second format different from the ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7636087 | Program, information storage medium, image generation system, and image generation method An image generation system generates an image of an object space viewed from a given viewpoint. When a contact event in which a first model object comes in contact with a second model object in the object space has occurred, height information of grid points corresp... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7619622 | Selective rendering for driver classes Described is a filtering mechanism/process that selectively controls whether graphics primitives are provided to a given driver. For example, graphics primitives of an accessibility (e.g., magnification) program may be excluded from being obtained by mirror drivers ... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7605811 | Metaball drawing system, metaball drawing method, and memory medium storing metaball drawing program In a metaball drawing system, first and second metaballs are represented by first and second density distributions, and a threshold band is set with respect to the first and second density distributions. It is determined whether a pixel on a screen is included in th... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7595797 | Transforming a polygonized object into an implicit-function representation An image processing method using a computer includes extracting vertex coordinates (S13) of a triangular-shaped polygon, setting a region (S14) surrounding the triangular-shaped polygon (TP) on the basis of the vertex coordinates, measuring a distance ... | 09/29/2009 |
