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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8188996 | Shallow bounding volume hierarchies for accelerated ray tracing Methods, systems, devices, and computer program code (software) products enable acceleration of ray tracing by using acceleration data structures with high arity to enable processing of nodes using streaming SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) instructions with... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8188997 | Accelerated ray tracing using shallow bounding volume hierarchies Methods, systems, devices, and computer program code (software) products enable acceleration of ray tracing by using acceleration data structures with high arity to enable processing of nodes using streaming SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) instructions with... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8188998 | System and method of proximity detection A computer implemented method of visualizing an infrastructure comprising: acquiring a cross section definition, the definition comprising points defining a link and link information, each of the points exhibiting a type; creating at least one three dimensional face... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184116 | Object based avatar tracking A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for object based avatar tracking. In one embodiment, a range for an object in a virtual universe is identified. The range comprises a viewable field of the object. Avatars in the viewable field o... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179393 | Fusion of a 2D electro-optical image and 3D point cloud data for scene interpretation and registration performance assessment Method and system for combining a 2D image with a 3D point cloud for improved visualization of a common scene as well as interpretation of the success of the registration process. The resulting fused data contains the combined information from the original 3D point ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174523 | Display controlling apparatus and display controlling method A display controlling apparatus stores therein first position information of pieces of data in a predetermined n-dimensional virtual space displayed on a display device, specifies second position information in the virtual space indicating positions of the pieces of... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174522 | Three-dimensional (3D) structure data creation method, 3D structure data creation apparatus, computer-readable record media and computer system A three-dimensional (3D) structure data creation technique capable of readily creating 3D structure data is disclosed. This method is for producing data of a 3D structure which is made up of a plurality of elements. The method includes the steps of preparing first a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174524 | Ray hit coalescing in a computer rendering program Ray trees are evaluated to render an image in a computer graphic program with a shaded object by launching rays from an object to be shaded in a scene. The rays intersect other objects in the scene at hit points. The hit points that can be shaded by the same shader ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174521 | Product modeling system and method A product modeling system and method are provided. On one embodiment, the product modeling system is used to model a piece of apparel, such as a shirt, with a design wherein the model with the design is used to display the piece of apparel with the design to a consu... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169434 | Octree construction on graphics processing units An octree GPU construction system and method for constructing a complete octree data structure on a graphics processing unit (GPU). Embodiments of the octree GPU construction system and method first defines a complete octree data structure as forming a complete part... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169433 | Apparatus and method for three-dimensional model retrieval The present invention relates to three-dimensional model retrieval apparatus and method. The three-dimensional model retrieval apparatus according to the present invention comprises a model normalizing unit for rotating and/or translating a three-dimensional model s... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169436 | Methods and systems for remoting three dimensional graphics Methods and systems for providing three dimensional graphics to remote computing machines and appliances that include an agent executing on a local computing machine to intercept a plurality of graphics commands generated by a three dimensional application executing... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169435 | Generating and rendering three dimensional models of flexible packaging A method, and apparatus, and a computer-readable medium encoded with instructions to carry out a method. The method is of rendering a model of a surface of wrinkly material such as paper or foil, e.g., a model of packaging on a display device. The method includes ac... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164590 | Methods and apparatus for determining high quality sampling data from low quality sampling data A method for a computer system includes determining a plurality of illumination modes associated with a plurality of scene descriptors, wherein the plurality of scene descriptors includes a first scene descriptor and a second scene descriptor, determining a first pl... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164589 | Image resource loading system and method which carries out loading of object for renewal of game screen Disclosed are image resource loading system and method, the system comprising a basic recording space for partitioning a game map into at least one cell and maintaining an object by unit of the cell, a loading target identification unit identifying a cell becoming a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8154543 | Stereoscopic image display device A stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel including a plurality of left eye pixels and a plurality of right eye pixels, a memory including a left eye image section for storing data corresponding to the left eye pixels and a right eye image section... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154544 | User specified contact deformations for computer graphics An embodiment of the invention creates contact deformations in objects by combining two deformations. A collider contacting an object defines a primary deformation that modifies at least a portion of the object in contact with the collider. A secondary deformation b... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149235 | System and method for upscaling low-resolution images A method is disclosed which may include providing an original image having an array of samples; defining a two-dimensional target image having a higher resolution than the original image; defining a splat in the target image for each of a plurality of samples in the... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139058 | Hierarchical tile-based rasterization algorithm A hierarchical tile-based rasterization method is disclosed. The inventive rasterization algorithm rasterizes pixels in hierarchical rectangles or blocks. The method includes: walking a plurality of tiles of pixels and determining if each tile is valid; breaking eac... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134553 | Rendering three-dimensional objects on a server computer Technologies are described herein for rendering documents containing three-dimensional objects. A client computer receives a request to display a document. If a program utilized to create the document is not available to display the document, the client computer tra... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134552 | Method, apparatus, and medium for efficiently rendering 3D object A method, apparatus and medium to render three-dimensional (3D) objects for 3D graphics. The method includes detecting the presence of a motion by performing local coordinate calculations with respect to each 3D object, performing global coordinate calculations with... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8125480 | Flat texture volume rendering A GPU accelerated volume rendering method from flat textures (also known as texture atlas) is disclosed. The method is not restricted to a specific rendering technique. The method is fast as it requires no reordering or copying passes. An image processing system is ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125483 | Systems and methods for imaging relationship data in a three-dimensional image Systems and methods for imaging relationship data as a three-dimensional image, which include rendering a three-dimensional image of an object having at least one attribute, an input marker relative to the object, an output marker relative to the object, and an inpu... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125481 | Lightweight three-dimensional display A computer-implemented imaging process method includes generating a progression of images of a three-dimensional model and saving the images at a determined location, generating mark-up code for displaying image manipulation controls and for permitting display of th... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125482 | Graphical user interface graphics-based interpolated animation performance An arrangement provides for displaying an object, such as a drawn object, or a database search result, based on a graphical user interface. A first display window is provided for specifying attributes of an object. A second window is provided for spatially inserting... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120604 | Object editing system, object editing method and object editing program product The present invention provides a snap function that can move an object smoothly, without deteriorating the user operability. According to the present invention, there is provided an object editing system, including: an arrangement system for arranging an object and ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120606 | Three-dimensional image output device and three-dimensional image output method A three-dimensional image output device includes: a viewpoint image acquiring device for acquiring a plurality of viewpoint images obtained by photographing a same subject from a plurality of viewpoints; a parallax information acquiring device for acquiring parallax... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120605 | Image apparatus for providing three-dimensional (3D) PIP image and image display method thereof An image apparatus which provides a three-dimensional (3D) picture-in-picture (PIP) image, and an image display method thereof are provided. The image apparatus includes a graphic processor which adds a graphic representation to a main image to be displayed on a dis... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115761 | Locking geometric and camera parameters in image-based three-dimensional modeling, and applications thereof Embodiments relate to locking geometric and camera parameters in image-based three-dimensional modeling. In a first embodiment, a computer-implemented method modifies a three-dimensional model using a set of two-dimensional photographic images. In the method, at lea... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115762 | Locking geometric and camera parameters in image-based three-dimensional modeling, and applications thereof Embodiments relate to locking geometric and camera parameters in image-based three-dimensional modeling. In a first embodiment, a computer-implemented method modifies a three-dimensional model using a set of two-dimensional photographic images. In the method, at lea... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115760 | Pictorial representation of three-dimensional data records The invention relates to a method for the pictorial representation of a three-dimensional measuring data record, comprising the creation of the three-dimensional measured data record by means of a computer tomographic or nuclear spin tomographic device, the processi... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111253 | Controlling usage capacity in a radio access network In a radio access network, techniques for controlling relative usages, by different groups of access terminals in communication with a radio access network, of available power handling capacity of the radio access network, based on information about usages by differ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111255 | Mobile communication terminal for controlling display information A mobile communication terminal and a method of controlling display of a webpage thereof are disclosed. When a web browser is initiated to gain access to a webpage, the web browser screen is formed as a 3D polyhedron structure and a plurality of webpage screens are ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111254 | Depth image-based representation method for 3D object, modeling method and apparatus, and rendering method and apparatus using the same A depth image-based representation (DIBR) method of modeling a 3-dimensional (3D) object, by which the 3D object is expressed by depth information, color information, and camera parameters or geometry information, color information, and camera parameters. The camera... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8106904 | Shader program generation system and method A method and computer program product are provided for generating a shader program. Included is a file associated with a graphics effect. In use, a shader program is generated based on processing of the file to apply the graphics effect to an object. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106905 | Illustrating a three-dimensional nature of a data set on a two-dimensional display A volume of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102390 | Frame by frame, pixel by pixel matching of model-generated graphics images to camera frames for computer vision The invention employs state-of-the-art computer graphics to advance the field of computer vision. The invention uses model-generated graphics in image processing: match image frames rendered by a graphics engine to those from a camera, in real-time, frame by frame, ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102391 | Hybrid rendering of image data utilizing streaming geometry frontend interconnected to physical rendering backend through dynamic accelerated data structure generator A circuit arrangement and method provide a hybrid rendering architecture capable of interfacing a streaming geometry frontend with a physical rendering backend using a dynamic accelerated data structure (ADS) generator. The dynamic ADS generator effectively parallel... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102389 | Box casting using an integrated acceleration data structure Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus to reduce the number of intersection tests required to determine if an object moving within a three-dimensional scene collides with any other objects. According to one embodiment of the invention, a physics ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098244 | Evolutionary direct manipulation of free form deformation representations for design optimization An improved method for optimizing a design, based on direct manipulations of the object points of a design. In addition, the number and modifications of control points is kept as minimal as possible while the targeted movement of object points is realized and the au... | 01/17/2012 |
