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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7098914 | Image synthesis method, image synthesis apparatus, and storage medium An image synthesis method includes a placement information obtaining step of obtaining placement information about a plurality of images in which adjacent images have a common subject region, and a synthesis step of combining the images using a mapping mode in accor... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7098915 | System and method for determining line-of-sight volume for a specified point A system and method determines a Line-of-Sight volume for a specified point within a three dimensional model. Each data file includes data about geometric entities that make-up a geographic feature that may impact a Line-of-Sight from a focus. A processor is operati... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7098924 | Method and programmable device for triangle interpolation in homogeneous space A method and apparatus for obtaining an attribute in homogenous space. After obtaining the vertices of a triangle, the world space coordinates and the attribute of each vertex are transformed to homogeneous coordinates and an attribute in viewer space. Then a set of... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099910 | Partitioned shifter for single instruction stream multiple data stream (SIMD) operations A method of enabling a single instruction stream multiple data stream operation and a double precision floating point operation within a single floating point execution unit which includes providing a floating point unit with a two way aligner and a two way normaliz... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095905 | Merging images to form a panoramic image Methods, and apparatus implementing methods, including computer program products, for merging images of segments of a view. Methods include: receiving, from a network, a first image representing a first segment of the view and a second image representing a second se... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095338 | TCAS VSI display A graphical display of a vertical speed indicator showing “fly-to” and “no-fly” commands on the periphery of a vertical speed indicator during TCAS traffic or resolution advisory conditions. ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095401 | System and method for gesture interface A method for determining a gesture includes determining a change in a background of an image from a plurality of images, determining a object in the image, determining a trajectory of the object through the plurality of images, and classifying a gesture according to... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095414 | Blending system and method in an integrated computer graphics pipeline A system and method are provided for a hardware implementation of a blending technique during graphics processing in a graphics pipeline. During processing in the pipeline, a plurality of matrices and a plurality of weight values are received. Also received is verte... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095418 | Apparatus and methods for texture mapping The invention provides texture mapping techniques that facilitate interactive painting of a three-dimensional virtual surface by a user in object space, without requiring global parameterization. The texture mapping techniques feature rendering texture for a given v... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095529 | Color management system A method for applying a selected color space transformation profile when rendering image data includes providing a plurality of color space transformation profiles; receiving a media attribute, the media attribute identifying a desired characteristic of a media to b... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7091984 | Scalable desktop A method for displaying a desktop display surface. The method includes creating a render target surface having substantially the same dimensions as a desktop display surface, casting the desktop display surface as a texture, and setting the render target surface as ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092983 | Method and system for secure remote distributed rendering A computerized method for remotely rendering a render job includes receiving a render job submitted by a client at a first rendering site, the render job associated with at least one file stored at the first rendering site. The file stores information necessary to r... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7091991 | 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... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7091990 | Method of guided blind deconvolution of microscopic images and software A method for blind deconvolution of microscopic images in which only a single parameter is varied for the estimation of the PSF. The single parameter takes account of the optical properties of the environment of the object (40) between the objective (20 | 08/15/2006 |
| 7091928 | Intelligent eye A new approach for visual man-machine interaction that mimics the human response to natural visual information by instructing the computer with eye and ocular appendages. The system may also be used to uniquely identify the user. ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088364 | Method and system for displaying stereoscopic detail-in-context presentations A method for generating a stereoscopic presentation of a region-of-interest in a monoscopic information representation. The method includes the steps of: (a) selecting first and second viewpoints for the region-of-interest; (b) creating a lens surface having a prede... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088389 | System for displaying information in specific region According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system for displaying information in a specific region includes a capturing unit for capturing a desired subject, an image capturing unit for capturing an image of the subject, a position and attitude calculatin... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085683 | Data processing and observation system An observation paradigm that works with a collection of the abovementioned elements, to provide a way of observing information infrastructures and data movement in a chosen time frame. The user (human observer) is provided sophisticated controls and interaction mech... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7084904 | Foveated wide-angle imaging system and method for capturing and viewing wide-angle images in real time The present invention includes a foveated wide-angle imaging system and method for capturing a wide-angle image and for viewing the captured wide-angle image in real time. In general, the foveated wide-angle imaging system includes a foveated wide-angle camera syste... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085434 | Sprite recognition in animated sequences Sprite identification in animated sequences is achieved by performing three separate but related procedures, namely (i) identification of the sprite, (ii) identification of the background and (iii) identification of the identified sprite's translation path. By analy... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7082572 | Methods and apparatus for interactive map-based analysis of digital video content The present invention provides electronic methods and apparatus for interactively authoring, sharing and analyzing digital video content. Methods for authoring include displaying visual data, defining each traversal as a time-based sequence of frames and annotating ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7082387 | System and method for simultaneous construction of physical and CAD models A system and method for simultaneous construction of a corresponding CAD model and physical model, wherein the CAD model comprises a plurality of CAD representations each corresponding to a physical component part that is used to construct the physical model. During... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7082575 | System using graphic interface to perform stock management A system that uses a graphic interface to perform stock management is disclosed. It is comprised of a database to store data needed for stock management and to link each of the following modules to perform stock management using the graphic interface. The modules in... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081088 | Method and apparatus for automatic local path planning for virtual colonoscopy A method for automatic local path planning for a virtual endoscope comprises the steps of defining a sub volume around a current endoscope position in a lumen; performing a region growing inside the lumen, starting from the current endoscope position; calculating an... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079711 | Method and device for validating parameters defining an image The present invention describes a method of validating parameters defining an image, each parameter being represented by one of the tops of a polygon and being able to be associated with one or more functionalities. A point, being able to move in the polygon, makes ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079830 | Information handling system with wireless LAN and wired LAN activity monitoring apparatus and methodology An information handling system is provided which includes a wired network controller fixedly mounted in the system and an optional wireless network card which is pluggably receivable by a connector in the system. The system includes a first indicator for annunciatin... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7080096 | Housing space-related commodity sale assisting system, housing space-related commodity sale assisting method, program for assisting housing space-related commodity sale, and computer-readable recorded medium on which program for assisting housing space-related commodity sale is recorded The inventive system includes a database for storing housing display data including layout information of a housing such as a real estate object, an interior display data including information regarding interior of the housing, and furniture display data including c... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079137 | Method for digitally rendering an object using measured BRDF data A digital rendering method employs measured BRDF values for a modeled material by collecting BRDF measurements using a precision reflectometer. A laser light may be used as the source of the incident beam. Sparsely measured BRDF data is resampled to build a data tab... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079139 | Method and system for measuring an item depicted in an image A method and system for measuring an object represented by a three dimensional model includes an algorithm for displaying the three dimensional object in a 2 dimensional space. Once rendered in two dimensions, a user can identify two points on the object in that two... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075534 | Method and system for automatically generating factored approximations for arbitrary bidirectional reflectance distribution functions A method and a system are presented to generate automatically factored approximations for arbitrary Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Functions (BRDFs). The method presented extends previous work to include a search over a space of 4D to 2D projections. Each se... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075542 | Selectable multi-performance configuration The present invention relates to a selectable multi-performance configuration. Instead of the traditional methods of producing separate high-end and low-end graphics chips, the present invention produces processing systems in a single unit. The single unit is readil... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075533 | System for and method of implementing refraction mapping A system performs refraction mapping for an image having an object, the object being viewed along at least one line of sight and at least partially through a boundary of first and second at least semi-transparent media. The boundary defines at least one normal vecto... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076364 | Road map display device and redoce media for use in the same A road map display device including a road map information memory for memorizing road map data on a two-dimensional coordinate and a detection device for detecting a present position and a travel direction of an automotive vehicle, wherein the two-dimensional coordi... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076474 | Method and system for simulating a business process using historical execution data The present invention pertains to a system for simulating business processes. The system has data warehouse for storing historical execution data from executions of a first business process. The system also has a business process simulator coupled to the data wareho... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076735 | System and method for network transmission of graphical data through a distributed application Systems and methods for network transmission of three-dimensional graphical data are disclosed. A single graphical application instance can virtually and efficiently exist on multiple local or remote display systems by directly sharing its raw rendered framebuffer m... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071949 | View dependent tiled textures An array of view-dependent sprited tiles provide different views of an image texture (e.g., structure, color, shading, illumination, transparency, as well as other image attributes). The different views of the image texture correspond to different viewing angles at ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7071938 | System and method for generating pixel values for pixels in an image using strictly deterministic methodologies for generating sample points A computer graphics system generates pixel values for pixels in an image of objects in a scene, using strictly-deterministic low-discrepancy sequences, as sample points for evaluating integrals which are used to simulate a number of computer graphic techniques, incl... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068267 | Computer-implemented system and method for handling linked data views A computer-implemented system and method for use in a data visualization system having a data model. The data model contains data observations. A first view and a second view are used to display at least a portion of the data observations contained in the data model... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068269 | System and method for presenting three-dimensional data The invention relates to a system and method for presenting data such as CAD data and three-dimensional graphic design data. The presentation method includes a set of one or more pages upon which objects are arranged. The objects may be associated with models, image... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068288 | System and method for moving graphical objects on a computer controlled system A user interface method and system for positioning graphical objects in the display area of a free form system. A selected object may operate in a first state where it can be moved to different positions within the display area. The selected object may further opera... | 06/27/2006 |
