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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7222210 | System and method for memory hub-based expansion bus A system memory includes a memory hub controller, a memory module accessible by the memory hub controller, and an expansion module having a processor circuit coupled to the memory module and also having access to the memory module. The memory hub controller is coupl... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221947 | Location related keyword monitoring on a mobile communications device systems and methods Embodiments of the invention comprise systems and methods related to the provision of location based services via a mobile communications device. In different embodiments, a communication system is described, comprising a mobile communications device, a mobile commu... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221375 | System and method for generating dithering patterns associated with a digital image A system and a method for generating dithering patterns associated with a digital image are provided. The method includes generating a first table index value indicative of a location in a first table where first, second, and third color intensity values associated ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7222213 | System and method for communicating the synchronization status of memory modules during initialization of the memory modules A memory system includes a memory hub controller coupled to a plurality of memory modules each of which includes a memory hub. The memory hub controller and the memory hubs each include at least one receiver that is synchronized to an internal clock signal during in... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218323 | Method and system for rendering voxel data while addressing multiple voxel set interpenetration A method is provided for rendering 3D voxel data including plural voxel sets, while eliminating artifacts that may result from the plural voxel sets colliding with each other (“voxel interpenetration”). In one aspect, the method involves an extension of the spla... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215340 | Object space EWA splatting of point-based 3D models A method renders a 3D model of a graphics object wherein the model includes discrete zero-dimensional points. A first opaque polygon is centered on each point, and the polygon is rendered to obtain depth values of a depth image in a z-buffer. A second polygon is cen... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213082 | Memory hub and method for providing memory sequencing hints A memory module includes a memory hub coupled to several memory devices. The memory hub is also coupled to receive a memory packet from a system controller containing a memory hint indicative of the subsequent operation of the memory devices. The memory module uses ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212203 | Systems and methods for voxel warping Systems and methods for calculating a modification of a geometrical shape by applying an inverse modification function to an array representing the shape. An array representing the geometrical shape is defined on a multi-dimensional space. A modification function is... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7211046 | Systems and methods for creating reformatted computed tomography images Systems and methods for creating a reformatted medical diagnostic image of a physical structure of the body including obtaining a plurality of axial images of the physical structure of the body and automatically selecting a plurality of points from the plurality of ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212201 | Method and apparatus for segmenting an image in order to locate a part thereof A method is disclosed to automatically segment 3D and higher-dimensional images into two subsets without user intervention, with no topological restriction on the solution, and in such a way that the solution is an optimal in a precisely defined optimization criteri... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209136 | Method and system for providing a volumetric representation of a three-dimensional object The invention provides a method of providing a volumetric representation of a three-dimensional object. The method comprises several steps, including obtaining a line list of points of at least one set of lines having start and end points corresponding to intersecti... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7210059 | System and method for on-board diagnostics of memory modules A memory hub includes an on-board diagnostic engine through which diagnostic testing and evaluation of the memory system can be performed. The memory hub includes a link interface for receiving memory requests for access to memory devices of the memory system and a ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206887 | System and method for memory hub-based expansion bus A system memory includes a memory hub controller, a memory module accessible by the memory hub controller, and an expansion module having a processor circuit coupled to the memory module and also having access to the memory module. The memory hub controller is coupl... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7206729 | Inertial field generator: a method for controllably coupling kinematic character motions to dynamically simulated elements A method is described to let animators control the extent by which kinematically scripted character motions affect dynamically simulated objects' motions. The dynamic objects are connected to the kinematic character, such as clothing or hair, and the motion of the d... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203353 | Method and apparatus for processing a computed tomography image of a lung obtained using contrast agent In a method and apparatus for image processing proceeding from a computed tomography (CT) image of a lung as an original image that is registered using a contrast agent, pulmonary parenchyma pixels are determined, the pulmonary parenchyma pixels are presented in fal... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200024 | 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... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197107 | X-ray CT apparatus and X-ray CT method An X-ray computer tomography apparatus wherein a conical X-ray beam is radiated on a local area of an object while a rotary means with an X-ray generator and a two-dimensional X-ray image sensor faced to each other is rotated relative to the object which is disposed... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197193 | Apparatus and method for three dimensional image reconstruction An instrument to acquire and methods to obtain three-dimensional (3D) images from a series of two-dimensional (2D) images which are obtained without moving the relative positions of the target, the detector, or the focusing lens is disclosed. The 2D images consist o... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194483 | Method, system, and computer program product for concept-based multi-dimensional analysis of unstructured information A method, operating model, system, data structure, computer program and computer program product for analyzing and categorizing and exploring or querying unstructured information and for tracking trends and exceptions. Method for analytical processing of unstructure... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194117 | System and method for performing a three-dimensional virtual examination of objects, such as internal organs Methods for generating a three-dimensional visualization image of an object, such as an internal organ, using volume visualization techniques are provided. The techniques include a multi-scan imaging method; a multi-resolution imaging method; and a method for genera... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194122 | Medical tomography apparatus for generating a 2D image from a 3D dataset of a tomographic data A medical tomography apparatus and method, a 3D dataset is generated in as picture elements arranged in a three-dimensional grid during the examination of a patient. Predefined surfaces are stored in a library and, dependent on the desired examination, one of the pr... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194593 | Memory hub with integrated non-volatile memory A memory hub having an integrated non-volatile memory for storing configuration information is provided. The memory hub includes a high-speed interface for receiving memory access requests, a non-volatile memory having memory configuration information stored therein... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191191 | Haptic authoring Methods are presented for authoring geometrical databases which incorporate touch or haptic feedback. In particular, a database of geometrical elements incorporates attributes necessary to support haptic interactions such as stiffness, hardness, friction, and so for... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7191101 | Method of semiautomatic segmentation for the estimation of three-dimensional volumes Method of estimation and segmentation of the volume of a three-dimensional object in medical imagery, in which: one defines a given number of base points constituting a first three-dimensional shape defined by facets; ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190364 | System and method for polygon-smoothing in texture-based volume rendering A system and method for polygon-smoothing in texture-based volume rendering is provided. The method comprises the steps of: downsizing a slice polygon and determining boundary polygons around the downsized slice polygon using a smoothing factor, wherein the downsize... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190371 | 3D stereo browser for the internet A viewer for viewing stereo images either downloaded over a network, such as the Internet, or resident on a personal computer uses a graphical user interface (GUI) to facilitate the display of wireframes with or without texture applied in a variety of formats. In st... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188219 | Buffer control system and method for a memory system having outstanding read and write request buffers A memory controller and method for managing the issuance of read and write requests to a system memory is provided. The number of outstanding read requests and write requests issued to the system memory are separately monitored and further issuance of read and write... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184041 | Block-based fragment filtration with feasible multi-GPU acceleration for real-time volume rendering on conventional personal computer A computer-based method and system for interactive volume rendering of a large volume data on a conventional personal computer using hardware-accelerated block filtration optimizing uses 3D-textured axis-aligned slices and block filtration. Fragment processing in a ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184042 | Computer graphic system and computer-implemented method for generating images using a ray tracing methodology that makes use of a ray tree generated using low-discrepancy sequences and ray tracer for use therewith A ray tracer generates a ray tree, the ray tree comprising a primary ray shot along a selected direction and a plurality of other rays, the other rays being generated by recursive splitting. A ray is split when it encounters a predetermined condition, and each of th... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184043 | Color compensated translucent object rendering methods and apparatus Methods for rendering a 3D object includes determining incident illumination for object surface points, determining surface colors associated with these points, determining diffuse illumination values associated with these points, associating a 3D grid having vertic... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184052 | Real-time texture rendering using generalized displacement maps 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... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180518 | Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method An image processing apparatus, comprising: a pixel generation unit configured to generate parameters of pixels in stamps based on values of typical pixels in the stamps having a plurality of pixels and derivatives of the parameters characterizing the image; a plural... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181584 | Dynamic command and/or address mirroring system and method for memory modules A memory module includes a memory hub that couples signals to memory devices mounted on opposite first and second surfaces of a memory module substrate. The memory devices are mounted in mirrored configuration with mirrored terminals of memory devices on opposite su... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181064 | Histogram-based color consistency measure for scene reconstruction A method of testing for color consistency between corresponding portions of two-dimensional images or photographs that are used to create three-dimensional models of scenes or objects. The testing method makes use of histograms in order to determine whether color co... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7180522 | Apparatus and method for distributed memory control in a graphics processing system A distributed memory controller memory system for a graphics processing system having addressable memory areas each coupled to a respective memory controller. The memory controllers are further coupled to each other through a memory controller bus upon which a memor... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7176926 | Method for animating two-dimensional objects A method animates an object as a sequence of frames according to an animation script. The object is represented as a two-dimensional distance field. For each frame in the sequence of frames, a pose of the object is updated according to the animation script. The obje... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176918 | Three-dimensional paint projection weighting of diffuse and scattered illumination methods and apparatus Methods for rendering an object includes determining diffuse illumination values for object surface points, associating a 3D grid including vertices with the object, mapping object surface points to vertices, determining diffuse illumination values for vertices from... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173615 | Generating a mesh A method of generating a mesh includes locating a reference voxel. The reference voxel is inside a surface of an object and is adjacent to at least one voxel outside the surface. The method also includes, for a voxel outside the surface adjacent to the reference vox... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7173616 | Method for determining the bounding voxelisation of a 3D polygon Bounding voxelization of a triangle or other polygon represented in a three-dimensional space is determined by dividing the triangle or polygon into polygons, each being an intersected slice of a grid. Each polygon is rasterized individually to determine an intersec... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7174409 | System and method for memory hub-based expansion bus A system memory includes a memory hub controller, a memory module accessible by the memory hub controller, and an expansion module having a processor circuit coupled to the memory module and also having access to the memory module. The memory hub controller is coupl... | 02/06/2007 |
