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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6967650 | Image generating system and program Am image generating system and program which can generate an image in which the change of state in an object propagate with less amount of data and reduced load in computation is provided. The image generating system generates an aggregate object (600) which ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967653 | Apparatus and method for semi-automatic classification of volume data An apparatus for semiautomatic classification of volume data provides the ability to generate visually significant representations of the important regions of the data set. The representations may be indicated by opacity or color changes, for example. The apparatus ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965688 | Three-dimensional model analyzing apparatus detecting and smoothing edges before analytic operation In a three-dimensional model analyzing apparatus for analyzing a physical property of a three-dimensional model, an information receiving unit receives information on a three-dimensional model as an object to be analyzed, an edge detecting unit detects an edge of th... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6965847 | Methods and computer readable medium for improved radiotherapy dosimetry planning Methods and computer readable media are disclosed for ultimately developing a dosimetry plan for a treatment volume irradiated during radiation therapy with a radiation source concentrated internally within a patient or incident from an external beam. The dosimetry ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6961058 | Macrostructure modeling with microstructure reflectance slices A method and system for efficient synthesis of photorealistic free-form knitwear, where a single cross-section of yarn serves as the basic primitive for modeling entire articles of knitwear. This primitive, called the lumislice, describes radiance from a yarn cross-... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6958752 | Systems and methods for three-dimensional modeling Systems and methods for modifying a virtual object stored within a computer. The systems and methods allow virtual object modifications that are otherwise computationally inconvenient. The virtual object is represented as a volumetric representation. A portion of th... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6954212 | Three-dimensional computer modelling To generate a 3D computer model of a subject object 210, images 300-316, 380-384 of the subject object are recorded from different viewing positions and directions. The image data is processed to generate a plurality of sets of images, each set contain... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6954202 | Image-based methods of representation and rendering of three-dimensional object and animated three-dimensional object Provided are three-dimensional still and animated object representations obtained from photos of real-life objects and their geometrical representations, allowing compact storage, fast rendering with high output image quality, suitable for animation purposes. The me... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6954211 | Hardware-accelerated anti-aliased graphics In order to render a primitive, the primitive is subdivided into trapezoids and triangles. The subdivision occurs using scanline-aligned lines. These simple scanline-aligned regions are further subdivided so that the primitive is divided into simple scanline-boundar... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6954802 | Removable media recording station for the medical industry A removable medium recording station records medical image data in a format and removable medium that are widely accepted. The removable medium recording station can be used to effectively replace an installed storage device on an existing stand-alone medical image ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6947053 | Texture engine state variable synchronizer A mechanism for synchronizing state variables used by texture pipelines in a multi-pipeline graphics texture engine. The mechanism ensures that, as polygons are processed by a texture engine, the state variables associated with each polygon are distributed in parall... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6947039 | Method, system and computer program for producing a medical report The invention refers to a method of producing a medical report comprising a dynamic image information based on a volumetric scan of one or more internal organs of a subject. According to the method two-dimensional images for simulating a three-dimensional view of th... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6944743 | Memory hub bypass circuit and method A computer system and a method used to access data from a plurality of memory devices with a memory hub. The computer system includes a plurality of memory modules coupled to a memory hub controller. Each of the memory modules includes the memory hub and the plurali... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6940507 | Method and apparatus for visualization of 3D voxel data using lit opacity volumes with shading A volume rendering process is disclosed for improving the visual quality of images produced by rendering and displaying volumetric data in voxel format for the display of three-dimensional (3D) data on a two-dimensional (2D) display with shading and opacity to contr... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6941255 | Feature modeling in a finite element model A method for simulating a physical system using finite element techniques, wherein two or more distinct models corresponding to distinct regions within the modeled system are solved, each with a corresponding evaluator. Nodes which lie on the boundaries between the ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6937250 | System and method for mapping textures onto surfaces of computer-generated objects A method for mapping a texture onto a surface of a computer generated object represented by a plurality of pixels, where the mapping of the texture is dependent upon the geometric shape of the object. The method includes dividing a texture map comprising a plurality... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6937239 | Method and apparatus for orientating a character stroke Disclosed is a method of orientating a space curve having two endpoints. The method comprises selecting a desired direction and then generating a first vector having a direction which is same as the selected desired direction. At least one second vector is then gene... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6937057 | 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 ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6933952 | Method for antialiasing a set of objects represented as a set of two-dimensional distance fields in object-order A method and apparatus antialias a region of a set of objects. The set of objects is represented by a set of two-dimensional distance fields. Each distance field is partitioned into cells, where each cell is associated with a method for reconstructing the distance f... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6933939 | Method for correcting an adaptively sampled distance field A method corrects an adaptively sampled distance field of a model. The adaptively sampled distance field includes a multiple of cells. Each cell stores distance values at vertices of the cell. The cells include interior cells, surface cells, and exterior cells, and ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6930683 | Three-dimensional reconstruction method utilizing reprojective optimization A method of operating a data processing system to generate a three-dimensional model of a space from a plurality of measured images of the space. Each measured image includes a view of the space from a corresponding viewpoint. The method divides the space into a plu... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6931602 | Approach facilitating the selection of various machine vision functionality from among different platforms A method and apparatus are provided to improve upon accessibility of machine vision tools. More specifically, improved methods and apparatuses are presented to allow a user to select, via a user interface of a web browser included in a given computer, a machine visi... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6928399 | Method and program for simulating a physical system using object-oriented programming The invention relates to an object-oriented method for simulating a property of at least one fluid in a fluid-containing physical system in which the physical system is represented by a multiplicity of volumetric cells and a multiplicity of connections between cells... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6924823 | Recording medium, program, image processing method, and image processing device An image is freely enlarged/reduced in accordance with a user's control instruction to be displayed by reducing noises such as jaggy. An image processing device includes an affine transforming unit for affine transforming coordinates of a control point based on at l... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6917369 | Method and apparatus for rendering cell-based distance fields using texture mapping A method and apparatus render a region of a distance field representing an object. The distance field is partitioned into a set of cells, where each cell includes a set of distance samples and a method for reconstructing the distance field within the cell using the ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6917692 | Kalman tracking of color objects A semi-automatic method of tracking color objects in a video image sequence starts by separating the objects on the basis of color and identifying an object of interest to track. A Kalman predictive algotithm in used to predict the position of the centroid of the ob... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6917758 | Method of image compensation for watermarked film A method for obtaining an adjusted digital image which is compensated for a watermark exposure is described comprising: determining a first sensitometric response of a photographic media without a watermark exposure; determining a second sensitometric response of th... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6914601 | Method, apparatus, and computer program for generating three-dimensional shape data or volume data Disclosed herein are a method for generating volume data from images of an object viewed from diverse view points. This method comprises the steps of: (a) in each of discrete coordinate positions within a coordinate system for rendering a volume, obtaining a value c... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6915409 | Computerized information retrieval system A computerized information retrieval system having consistency among a sensory network portrayed in a visual display, a semantic network that establishes the logic of data organization and retrieval and a mechanical storage network that locates data in a memory stru... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6914602 | Approximating gradients with offset midpoints A method and computer program for approximating a gradient, the gradient defining a nonlinear transition from one color or gray level to another in an image where the rate of transition is determined by the function y=xe where e>1. The method includes ide... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6914600 | Volumetric warping for voxel coloring on an infinite domain A method of generating a three-dimensional model of a scene from a plurality of photographs of the scene. The method includes voxels in an interior region and an exterior region of the scene in question and then examines the voxels to determine if they are empty or ... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6909913 | Method and system for producing interactive three-dimensional renderings of selected body organs having hollow lumens to enable simulated movement through the lumen A method and system are provided for effecting interactive, three-dimensional renderings of selected body organs for purposes of medical observation and diagnosis. A series of CT images of the selected body organs are acquired. The series of CT images is stacked to ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6906708 | Image processing method and apparatus, and storage medium An image processing apparatus includes recording unit which has recorded image information appended with quantized space information in units of pixels; setting unit for setting a sampling rate in accordance with moving speed in a virtual space; reconstruction unit ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6903737 | Method and apparatus for implementing spread memory layout This disclosure provides a system for efficiently processing a data set. More particularly, image data such as volumetric data are stored in a spread memory fashion, with image data subsets occupying only a fraction of each page. Each memory page is sized to roughly... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6903740 | Volumetric-based method and system for visualizing datasets The present invention is a method for visualizing a plurality of stochastic datasets. The present invention provides a more accurate account of situations in the real world to better enable scientists and engineers to utilize the results of computer models. The meth... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6897864 | Method and program for coordinate decision procedure of voxel model, and recording medium thereof A VOXEL model generating unit generates a VOXEL model of an analysis object, and an inertia principal axes computing unit computes a center of gravity and principal axes of inertia. A three-dimensional CAD data rotating unit rotates the VOXEL model around one axis o... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6894707 | Display device for a medical tomographic image The display device for tomographic image has a display, a hard disk, a mechanical slide-bar for setting a display speed for series of tomographic images and a controller. This device is used for displaying tomographic images in the manner of paging on the display fo... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6891963 | Image display In an image display apparatus capable of storing therein a small amount of images and also capable of displaying two sorts, or more of images within a short time period, an axial image 1, a sagittal image 2, and a coronal image 3, which are load... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6891537 | Method for volume rendering The invention relates to a method for rendering of a volume data set on a two dimensional display. According to the method of the invention gradient vectors of voxel values are computed and are replaced by an index into a gradient look up table, thereby reducing the... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6888546 | Three-dimensional image display, display method, program for display A three-dimensional image displayed by a conventional medical computer system is not displayed on the basis of anatomic landmarks, so that a plurality of images cannot be compared with one another and examined on the basis of the same reference surfaces and referenc... | 05/03/2005 |
