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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7030609 | Split-blade data collection for propeller MRI The present invention provides a system and method of MR imaging particularly applicable with fast spin echo protocols. Odd and even echoes are used to create separate blades or strips in k-space. Preferably, each blade extends through the center of k-space. The bla... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027048 | 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... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023438 | Method and apparatus for rendering shadows A method and apparatus for rendering shadows. A pre-rendering process implements a two dimensional array or map of depth-based functions, such as a visibility function in z. During rendering of an object scene, these functions are accessed via lookup operations to e... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019744 | Method and apparatus for rendering of translucent objects using volumetric grids A method for rendering an object includes determining illumination values for surface points on the object, associating a grid including vertices and voxels with the object, determining illumination values associated with vertices from illumination values for surfac... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7015924 | Display apparatus and image encoded for display by such an apparatus In a system for storing and displaying images, such as in a personal computer or mobile telephone, a display apparatus is provided which selectively displays virtual reflections of the real environment according to mirror values encoded with the stored image. A came... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016521 | Image processing method and system, and medical examination apparatus, for extracting a path following a threadlike structure in an image An image processing method of extracting the points of a path following a threadlike structure in an image (IP) formed by a grid of Potential points. A first processing step (4) implements a first path-tracking operation using a front marching technique denot... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015935 | Apparatus for reference image rotation, and computer software product and method for reference image rotation In an apparatus for displaying reference images of patients and slices to be measured in a displayed reference image for assisting the positioning of slices in preparation for a slice-by-slice measurement and a computer software product and corresponding method, a s... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7014562 | Video game machine and after-image display method of video game machine An after-image of a ball is displayed on traces of the ball so that each gamer recognizes in which direction and at which speed the shot ball flies. A real ball 30 really exists in a virtual space on a screen and flies from the left to the right in the figure... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012601 | Line drawing for a volumetric display A method for rapid rendering of a desired line in a volumetric display having a rotatable screen includes stepping the rotatable screen through a sequence of angular positions and, at each angular position, rendering, on the rotatable screen, a rasterized approximat... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012608 | Simulation device The present invention introduces a simulation device which produces first object on a display means, and said first object is capable of being operated by input means. The present invention also has the following characteristics. First, said first object is composed... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7013032 | Method and apparatus for secondary capture of 3D based images on a picture archival and communications (PACS) system An image management system (10), includes a PACS system. The PACS system (10) includes a PACS server (20) coupled to a communications network (22) and a plurality of PACS workstations (40) also coupled to a communications network (... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7006085 | System and method for analyzing and imaging three-dimensional volume data sets A system and method is provided for quickly tracking a physical phenomena represented within the three-dimensional volume data set. A plurality of planes may be successively displayed in the three-dimensional volume data set from which points are digitized related t... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006087 | Method and apparatus for describing solid shapes, and CAD/CAM system which employs the method Disclosed is a solid shape describing apparatus provided with a function for defining both absolute coordinate system and floating coordinate system, a function for describing a relationship between the absolute coordinate system and the floating coordinate system, ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006095 | Method for typesetting a set glyphs represented as a set of two dimensional distance fields A method typesets a set of glyphs. A current glyph is selected from the set of glyphs and a current position of the current glyph is selected. A next position of a next glyph is determined, where the next glyph is selected from the set of glyphs. The determination o... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006108 | Method for generating a composite glyph and rendering a region of the composite glyph in image-order A method renders a region of a composite glyph. The composite glyph is defined by a set of elements. A set of two-dimensional distance fields is generated using the set of elements, where a composition of the set of two-dimensional distance fields represents the com... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006713 | Image-processing apparatus and image-displaying apparatus The image-processing apparatus includes n image processing sections which receive n consecutive pixel data items that are respectively input with the same timing and which respectively process the respective input pixel data items with the same timing, and a control... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006862 | Graphical user interfaces and methods for retrospectively gating a set of images Graphical user interfaces and methods for displaying ECG, slice images and a reconstruction projection image of the slices. In exemplary embodiments, the graphical user interfaces and methods facilitate the selection of slice images that are taken during a quiet par... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006090 | Method and computer program product for lighting a computer graphics image and a computer The invention relates to a method to and a computer program product for lighting a computer graphics image to be rendered. It is assumed that a plurality of light sources illuminate one or more objects of the scene to be rendered thus causing a complex lighting situ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003175 | Object-order multi-planar reformatting A system and method for object-order reformatting of a volume having data slices includes a coordinate transformation unit for transforming coordinates of an oblique surface through the volume from image-order to object-order, an object-order slice traversal unit fo... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002576 | System and method for analyzing a region of interest relative to a predetermined event A system and method are disclosed for analyzing a three-dimensional (3-D) region of interest relative to a predetermined event. The system and method are particularly useful as analytical, diagnostic and interpretive tools for any type of scientific data. ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002575 | Design supporting program, design supporting method, design supporting apparatus and computer-readable recording medium recorded with design supporting program A design supporting program, a design supporting method, a design supporting apparatus and a computer-readable recording medium recorded with a design supporting program, wherein assignment of graphical elements is simplified, and an amount of work required to input... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000209 | Method and apparatus for propagating a piecewise linear function to a surface Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for propagating a first piecewise linear function (PLF), which is defined over a first state, to a second state, which is a surface. In some embodiments, the space includes a set of states and a transition map that ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999096 | Method and apparatus for rendering using symplectic ray tracing The method for rendering using symplectic ray tracing is comprised the step of fixing the location of observation, fixing view screen of observation, practicing the symplectic ray tracing, acquiring the information of the color where the light rays cross the surface... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999078 | Method of forming a perspective rendering from a voxel space A method for forming a high spatial resolution perspective rendering from a low spatial resolution voxel space is disclosed. The method comprises steps of: a) initializing a virtual window of predetermined resolution pixels, and placing the virtual window in or near... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995763 | Interactive sculpting for volumetric exploration and feature extraction The present invention provides a system of extracting a visual feature from a dataset, comprising a storage means for storing said dataset; retrieval means for retrieving said dataset from said storage means; display means for displaying an image of said retrieval d... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996511 | Three-dimensional mesh generating method, magnetic field analysis method for rotating machine, three-dimensional mesh generating device, magnetic field analysis device for rotating machine, computer program, and recording medium A two-dimensional mesh is generated on a plane perpendicular to the rotation axis. At this time, a ring-shaped gap is provided between the rotor and the stator, and portions facing the ring-shaped gap are equally divided into the same number of parts. An initial thr... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996505 | Methods, apparatus and computer program products for automatically generating nurbs models of triangulated surfaces using homeomorphisms Embodiments automatically generate an accurate network of watertight NURBS patches from polygonal models of objects while automatically detecting and preserving character lines thereon. These embodiments generate from an initial triangulation of the surface, a hiera... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6995766 | Hierarchical lattice generating method, apparatus, and storage device storing a program thereof Hierarchical lattice generating method, apparatus, and program are capable of representing figures of areas in the neighborhood of boundary surfaces on a hierarchical lattice at reduced computation costs and with desired resolutions, using form data for computer sim... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6992666 | 3-dimensional-model-processing apparatus, 3-dimensional-model processing method and program-providing medium Disclosed is a 3-dimensional model-processing apparatus capable of processing a 3-dimensional model appearing on a display unit including a sensor for generating information on the position and the posture, which can be controlled by the user arbitrarily, and contro... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6993461 | Swept volume model A method and apparatus of modeling a swept volume for a computer simulated object by generating a polyhedral representation of the object and representing motion of the object with a set of position matrices. A subset of free neighborhood entities can be determined ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6987878 | System and method for analyzing and imaging an enhanced three-dimensional volume data set using one or more attributes A method and system are disclosed for creating a combination attribute volume or combo volume by combining one or more attribute volumes into a single volume. For instance, seismic data volumes may be used for creating a combination seismic attribute volume from mul... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6980042 | Delay line synchronizer apparatus and method A synchronizer system and method that can be used with a conventional adjustable delay circuit to preserve a pseudo-synchronous phase relationship between clock signals of different clock domains when the time delay of the adjustable delay circuit from which one of ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978039 | Method and system for segmentation of medical images A method and system for segmenting three-dimensional (3D) medical images containing an object of interest are provided. The method comprises generating a plurality of successive layers of fixed radius spheres about a circumference of a sphere containing at least one... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6978230 | Apparatus, system, and method for draping annotations on to a geometric surface Vertices of an annotation are projected onto a surface of a (2D or 3D) model and reconnected to preserve the original appearance of the annotation. The result of our method is a new set of geometry for the annotation that geometrically conforms to the surface of the... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6975760 | Shared image generation apparatus and method, computer program, and computer readable storage medium A shared image generation apparatus generates a basis matrix on the basis of a graph, the vertex set of which corresponds to a set of a plurality of members to which shared images are to be distributed, and generates a plurality of shared images to be distributed to... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6972760 | Area and span based Z-buffer A system and method is provided for decreasing the amount of data required to represent depth information for 3D images. In accordance with one embodiment, depth information is represented by a piecewise function Z(x,y). An (x,y) space is split into areas representi... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6973642 | Multi-dimensional programming device and multi-dimensional programming method An object is to provide a multi-dimensional programming device and a multi-dimensional programming method for creating multi-dimensional, horizontally written flowcharts, which solves problems experienced in vertically written program flowcharts or the like, and als... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6972774 | Image processing system for inserting plurality of images into composite area, and medium An image processing system according to the present invention aiming at providing a function capable of efficiently managing and utilizing image data, comprises a display unit for displaying on a screen a composite area as an aggregation of unit areas into which ima... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6967662 | Volume clipping in computer 3D graphics A method and apparatus are provided for clipping modifier volumes in a 3-dimensional computer graphics generating system. Objects are represented as a set of planar polygons. An indication is then provided as to which of the polygons form modifier volumes. A determi... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6968299 | Method and apparatus for reconstructing a surface using a ball-pivoting algorithm A method and apparatus are disclosed for finding a triangle mesh that interpolates a set of points obtained from a scanning system. A ball-pivoting algorithm computes a triangle mesh interpolating a given point cloud. The disclosed ball-pivoting algorithm triangulat... | 11/22/2005 |
