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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7343039 | System and process for generating representations of objects using a directional histogram model and matrix descriptor A system and process for determining the similarity in the shape of objects is presented that generates a novel shape representation called a directional histogram model. This shape representative captures the shape variations of an object with viewing direction, us... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339586 | Method and system for mesh-to-image registration using raycasting A method of registering a digital image with a polygonal mesh comprising the steps of providing a digital image, providing a polygonal mesh comprising a plurality of vertices that approximates an object in the digital image, propagating a ray from a vertex of the po... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339587 | Method for medical imaging and image processing, computed tomography machine, workstation and computer program product A method is for medical imaging and image processing in the form of a perspective volumetric display. The method includes providing a multiplicity of temporally graded 3D data volumes at a multiplicity of instants, a 3D data volume, respectively being assigned to an... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339585 | Method and apparatus for visualization of biological structures with use of 3D position information from segmentation results A data processing methodology and corresponding apparatus for visualizing the characteristics of a particular object volume in an overall medical/biological environment receives a source image data set pertaining to the overall environment. First and second contour ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333107 | Volume rendering apparatus and process A computer automated process is presented for accelerating the rendering of sparse volume data on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). GPUs are typically SIMD processors, and thus well suited to processing continuous data and not sparse data. The invention allows GPUs ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327360 | Hair rendering method and apparatus A method for rendering a plurality of geometrically thin objects in a computer system includes receiving a plurality of points associated with each of the plurality of geometrically thin objects, determining a plurality of volumetric point densities associated with ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327363 | Image processing apparatus, and computer program When volume data of a three-dimensional object to be processed is read and stored into a predetermined storage, first, a plurality of reference planes are set and a plurality of reference distance maps each indicative of distribution of distances between the three-d... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327362 | Method and system for providing a volumetric representation of a three-dimensional object A method of providing a volumetric representation of a three dimensional object includes defining a plurality of voxels in a three dimensional space, categorizing voxels as foreground or background according to at least one silhouette image of the object, foreground... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327365 | Shell texture functions Techniques are provided for at least modeling any one of mesostructure shadowing, masking, interreflection and silhouettes on a surface, as well as subsurface scattering within a non-homogeneous volume. Such techniques include, at least, acquiring material parameter... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321365 | Computerized deformation analyzer According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for determining deformation of a surface of a material is provided. The method includes receiving, at a computer, an elastic deformation range and a plastic deformation range of the material. The method also inc... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321366 | Method and program for converting boundary data into cell inner shape data A method and a program for converting boundary data into cell inner shape data, includes a division step (A) of dividing external data (12) constituted of the boundary data of an object into cells (13) in an orthogonal grid, a cutting point deciding st... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321677 | System and method for three-dimensional reconstruction of an artery A method and system for imaging an artery contained in an arterial tree. A microprocessor generates a three-dimensional reconstruction of the arterial tree from two or more angiographic images obtained from different perspectives. The orientation of the axis of the ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319941 | Translating mates in geometric models into joint blocks in block diagram models Methods and systems for translating models generated in one modeling environment into models that can be used in other modeling environments. In particular, information regarding a relationship between components of models in one modeling environment is translated i... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319467 | Skin reflectance model for representing and rendering faces A face is scanned to obtain a three-dimensional geometry of the face, images are also acquired of the face, and subsurface scattering of the face is measured. A translucency map is determined from the subsurface reflectance. A total surface reflectance and a normal ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319798 | Apparatus generating 3-dimensional image from 2-dimensional image and method thereof A 3-dimensional image is generated from an input 2-dimensional image based upon illuminative characteristics of the input image by filtering the 2-dimensional input image with filters of different orientations, outputting base shading images corresponding to the fil... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317825 | Using temporal and spatial coherence to accelerate maximum/minimum intensity projection A computer-implemented method for intensity projection includes providing volume data, determining an estimated threshold for determining a maximum/minimum intensity value in the volume data from temporal coherence and spatial coherence information, performing the s... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317456 | Method and apparatus for transforming point cloud data to volumetric data A method and apparatus are provided for transforming an irregular, unorganized cloud of data points (100) into a volumetric data or “voxel” set (120). Point cloud (100) is represented in a 3D cartesian coordinate system having an x-axis, a y... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315849 | Enterprise-wide data-warehouse with integrated data aggregation engine An enterprise-wide data-warehouse comprising a database management system (DBMS) including a relational datastore storing data in tables. An aggregation module, operatively coupled to the relational datastore aggregates the data stored in the tables of the relationa... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315304 | Multiple volume exploration system and method Method and system for multiple volume exploration is disclosed. A first 3D volume is rendered in a first region. One or representations are displayed in a second region, where each representation signifies a stack of 2D images. A first stack represents one or more 2... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313260 | Controlling thick-slice viewing of breast ultrasound data An adjunctive ultrasound mammography system and associated methods are described in which an ultrasound image being displayed near an x-ray mammogram image may be superimposed thereon or thereunder by a user for facilitating rapid comprehension of breast structures ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313289 | Image processing method and apparatus and computer-readable storage medium using improved distortion correction In image processing method and apparatus of the present invention, image distortions caused by oblique imaging are corrected. A feature point of one of a plurality of partially overlapping images corresponding to a common location of an original image, shared by the... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313463 | Biomimetic motion and balance controllers for use in prosthetics, orthotics and robotics Systems for controlling the motion of multiple articulated elements connected by one or more joints in an artificial appendage system. Four different embodiments includes a controller that reduces the dimension of joint state space by utilizing biomechanically inspi... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310095 | Method, computer program product, and device for projecting an exfoliated picture A method for projecting an exfoliated picture by outputting direction information of image data having three or more dimensions. The method includes calculating direction information of each voxel using voxel data of a plurality of pixels, and generating the exfolia... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310748 | Memory hub tester interface and method for use thereof A memory hub including a memory test bridge circuit for testing memory devices. Test command packets are coupled from a tester to the memory hub responsive to a test clock signal having a test clock frequency. The test bridge circuit generates memory device command,... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310100 | Efficient graphics pipeline with a pixel cache and data pre-fetching An efficient graphics pipeline with a pixel cache and data pre-fetching. By combining the use of a pixel cache in the graphics pipeline and the pre-fetching of data into the pixel cache, the graphics pipeline of the present invention is able to take best advantage o... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310752 | System and method for on-board timing margin testing of memory modules A memory module includes several memory devices coupled to a memory hub. The memory hub includes several link interfaces coupled to respective processors, several memory controller coupled to respective memory devices, a cross-bar switch coupling any of the link int... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310102 | System and method for applying accurate three-dimensional volume textures to arbitrary triangulated surfaces Systems and methods for displaying volume data on an arbitrary three-dimensional polygonal surface are disclosed. For each polygon in the polygonal surface, a two-dimensional texture tile is created and these texture tiles are combined to form texture atlases. Each ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310101 | System and method for generating generalized displacement maps from mesostructure geometries A “mesostructure renderer” uses pre-computed multi-dimensional “generalized displacement maps” (GDM) to provide real-time rendering of general non-height-field mesostructures on both open and closed surfaces of arbitrary geometry. In general, the GDM represe... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307630 | Volume rendering apparatus and method An apparatus for rendering a two dimensional polygon image from volume data defining a volume and plane data defining a two dimensional plane which intersects the volume. The apparatus comprises a graphics processing unit (GPU). The apparatus is operable to generate... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304645 | System and method for improving signal to noise ratio in 3-D point data scenes under heavy obscuration A method comprises loading LADAR point data into a three-dimensional voxel array as a plurality of components (304); determining connected components in the array (306); determining a size for each component and a hit count of occupied voxels (316 | 12/04/2007 |
| 7304644 | System and method for performing a virtual endoscopy A system and method for performing a virtual endoscopy is provided. The method comprises the steps of: calculating a distance map using three-dimensional (3D) data of a lumen; calculating a multiplanar reconstruction (MPR) of the lumen, wherein the MPR is calculated... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7298376 | System and method for real-time co-rendering of multiple attributes An apparatus and method for enhancing the combined image of multiple attributes without compromising the image of either attribute. The combined image of the multiple attributes is enhanced for analyzing a predetermined property revealed by the attributes. The combi... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298372 | Sample rate adaptive filtering for volume rendering A method renders a volume data set including a plurality of voxels. A sampling rate for each voxel in a volume data set is determined. Each voxel is filtered according to the sampling rate and pixels for an output image are generated from the filtered voxels. ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7292714 | Method, device and software for separating the individual subjects of an anatomical structure segmented from 3D datasets of medical examination procedures The invention relates to a method for carrying out the imaging processing of data sets of three-dimensional characters obtained from medical examination methods. According to the invention, a separation of the data of relevant anatomic structures as well as of other... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289347 | System and method for optically interconnecting memory devices A memory device includes a semiconductor substrate in which memory circuitry has been fabricated. An address converter and a control signal converter are coupled to an address decoder and control logic, respectively. The address and control converters are operable t... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289131 | Method of rendering a graphics image A method of rendering a graphics image in which rendering is only carried out in a region to be changed is disclosed. In a preferred form the image includes a plurality of objects and the method comprises the steps of: determining if each object has changed so that ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289119 | Statistical rendering acceleration Different rendering techniques are selected for portions of a scene based on statistical estimates of the portions' rendering costs. A scene is partitioned into a bounding volume hierarchy. Each bounding volume includes a statistical model of the spatial distributio... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286128 | System and method for rendering data associated with a 3-D scene description A system and a method for rendering data associated with a 3-D scene description are provided. The system includes a graphics processing unit configured to operably communicate with a communications bus. The graphics processing unit is further configured to receive ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286135 | Optimizing real-time rendering of texture mapped object models relative to adjustable distortion thresholds A “mesostructure renderer” uses pre-computed multi-dimensional “generalized displacement maps” (GDM) to provide real-time rendering of general non-height-field mesostructures on both open and closed surfaces of arbitrary geometry. In general, the GDM represe... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282947 | Memory module and method having improved signal routing topology A registered memory module includes several memory devices coupled to a register through a plurality of transmission lines forming a symmetrical tree topology. The tree includes several branches each of which includes two transmission lines coupled only at its ends ... | 10/16/2007 |
