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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| 8174528 | Retaining a surface detail Among other disclosure, a computer-implemented method for retaining a surface detail includes identifying a surface that is to be used for generating an image in a rendering process. The surface includes polygons to be changed from an initial size to a larger size a... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8130224 | User-interface design Graphical user interface objects are specified by a collection of attribute-value pairs, the collection of which comprise a complete description of the object and may be used by a rendering element to create a visual representation of the object. In practice, each o... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8106907 | Leaping iterative composition method of complicated graphic and storage medium having computer program executing the same A leaping iterative composition method of a complicated graphic and a storage medium having a computer program executing the same are described. First, an initiator and generators are set. After several times of iterating, a transitional object is formed. Then, a le... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8081186 | Spatial exploration field of view preview mechanism Indicators operable to preview or show the position and relative zoom level of a field of view within a virtual space. Virtual space exploration tools typically make use of a field of view for limiting a user's view of the virtual space and zooming in on a portion o... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077177 | Method for loading and displaying gridded data by determining the usefulness of a particular vertex Method, computer executable program and apparatus for displaying massive amounts of potentially non-uniform gridded data through the use of view dependant refinement. An initial minimal representation is created. A view dependant refinement criterion is then used to... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072456 | System and method for image-based rendering with object proxies A system and method for rendering with an object proxy. In one embodiment, a method includes forming a set of view textures corresponding to a set of viewing directions; selecting a viewing direction for rendering; selecting at least two view textures from the forme... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068103 | User-interface design Graphical user interface objects are specified by a collection of attribute-value pairs, the collection of which comprise a complete description of the object and may be used by a rendering element to create a visual representation of the object. In practice, each o... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063903 | Edge evaluation techniques for graphics hardware The edge evaluation technique, in accordance with one embodiment of the present technology, includes determining a number of edges of a given primitive to be evaluated. The technique also includes sequencing evaluation of a first edge by a first edge evaluation circ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059124 | Temporary non-tiled rendering of 3D objects 3D artwork may be rendered in a tiled, raster environment without tiling to improve performance and response time. When an image includes 3D artwork, rendering the 3D artwork using multiple tiles may cause performance problems. Instead of rendering a 3D model using ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8044957 | Subdividing geometry images in graphics hardware A system may include a graphics memory, a data bus, a processor, and a vertex shader. The data bus may be operatively connected to the graphics memory. The processor may send vertex data to the graphics memory via the data bus. The vertex shader may read the vertex ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8019736 | Systems and methods for combining a plurality of terrain databases into one terrain database A present novel and non-trivial system and methods for exacting terrain elevation data contained in a plurality of terrain elevation databases or data sets, combining the terrain elevation data contained in each terrain elevation data set to produce a single, combin... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018458 | Close-packed uniformly adjacent, multiresolutional overlapping spatial data ordering A method, apparatus, system and data structure is disclosed for mapping of spatial data to linear indexing for efficient computational storage, retrieval, integration, transmission, visual display, analysis, fusion, and modeling. These inventions are based on plane ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8009169 | Efficient tile-based rasterization An apparatus and method for rasterizing a primitive in a graphics system is disclosed in one example of the invention as including scanning a first row of tiles, one tile at a time, starting from a first point and scanning in a first direction. Immediately after sca... | 08/30/2011 |
| RE42656 | Method and apparatus for scaling up and down a video image An input video image having an arbitrary resolution is converted to another video image having a predetermined resolution of a display device to display the video image with the converted resolution. The frequencies of the synchronizing signals of the input video si... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7940270 | Computer processing of multi-dimensional data The present invention relates to a solution for processing source data into target data. A rim distance (δ4) between the block sample boundary (βSB) and the block edge (b4) is relatively short for a comparatively high resolution le... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7924282 | Object loading and unloading system An object loading and unloading system for loading and unloading objects in a graphically simulated virtual environment, or virtual world, is described. A world object manager manages multiple object loaders to load and unload objects as geographic cells move within... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921363 | Applying data thinning processing to a data set for visualization To visualize data, an input data set having a plurality of data items is received, and data thinning processing is applied to identify data items of the input data set to deselect from visualizing in a visualization screen. Identifying the data items to deselect is ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7876323 | Display apparatus and display method, learning apparatus and learning method, and programs therefor A display apparatus that displays an image includes: an image converting unit converting a photographed image signal, which is an image signal from a photographing unit that photographs an object, into a high-quality image signal of an image higher in quality than a... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7876322 | Method and apparatus for fast and efficient mesh simplification A method and apparatus for the simplification of a mesh surface is disclosed that preserves the original geometry of the shape of the surface and, at the same time, reduces undesirable triangle geometries. In one embodiment, a mesh simplification process first deter... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7872650 | Remotely viewing large tiled image datasets Systems and methods are described for remotely viewing large tiled image datasets, such as global maps at multiple resolution levels. A voting schema immediately retrieves the image tiles in a multi-resolution image dataset that are most likely to provide temporary ... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7859532 | Generating character images based upon display conditions In a 2D and 3D character determining process, the contents of display status information indicating a display status of a non-player character, such as a display position and display brightness, is confirmed. It is then determined whether or not the display status o... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7834874 | Method of improving the presentation of image data which inter-locked with video signals throughput of a terminal and a system thereof Systems and methods for presenting image data to a terminal are disclosed, the system including a memory configured to store tolerance cycle information associated with the realization time of an image data, a processor configured to determine a realization processi... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7830380 | Method, apparatus, and medium for transforming graphic data of an object A method, apparatus, and medium for transforming a graphic data of an object and a computer readable recording medium storing a program for executing the method are provided. The method includes; determining at least one triangle to be collapsed among one or more tr... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830381 | Systems for visualizing images using explicit quality prioritization of a feature(s) in multidimensional image data sets, related methods and computer products Visualization systems for rendering images from a multi-dimensional data set, include an interactive visualization system configured to accept user input to define at least one explicit prioritized feature in an image rendered from a multi-dimensional image data set... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7804501 | Object loading and unloading system An object loading and unloading system for loading and unloading objects in a graphically simulated virtual environment, or virtual world, is described. A world object manager manages multiple object loaders to load and unload objects as geographic cells move within... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7791602 | Method and apparatus for implementing level of detail with ray tracing The present invention relates to computer graphics applications involving scene rendering using objects modeled at multiple levels of detail. In accordance with an aspect of the invention, a ray tracer implementation allows users to specify multiple versions of a pa... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7777743 | Viewing multi-dimensional data through hierarchical visualization A method for hierarchical visualization of multi-dimensional data is provided. A first dimension-reduction process is applied to a multi-dimensional data set to obtain a first visualization. A subset of the multi-dimensional data set associated with a selected regio... | 08/17/2010 |
| RE41522 | Method and apparatus for scaling up and down a video image An input video image having an arbitrary resolution is converted to another video image having a predetermined resolution of a display device to display the video image with the converted resolution. The frequencies of the synchronizing signals of the input video si... | 08/17/2010 |
| RE41428 | Method and device for pictorial representation of space-related data A method and device for the pictorial representation of space-related data, for example, geographical data of the earth. Such methods are used for visualising topographical or meteorological data in the form of weather maps or weather forecast films. Further fields ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7746343 | Streaming and interactive visualization of filled polygon data in a geographic information system Interactive geographic information systems (GIS) and techniques are disclosed that provide users with a greater degree of flexibility, utility, and information. A markup language is provided that facilitates communication between servers and clients of the interacti... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7724255 | Program, information storage medium, and image generation system A program for generating an image, the program causing a computer to function as: an object space setting section which sets an object in an object space; a vertex processing section which performs per-vertex processing; and a pixel processing section which performs... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7710419 | Program, information storage medium, and image generation system An image generation system including a vertex processing section and a pixel processing section. When subjecting an object which is distant from a virtual camera to predetermined processing which is implemented by a first processing and a second processing, the vert... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7639255 | Realistic video color display A computer-implemented method for displaying on a color display device a realistic color of a paint coating comprising the following steps: (A) identify L*, a* b* color values at least three different angles for a paint coating from a data base; (B) convert the at l... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7639254 | Intuitive hierarchical time-series data display method and system The present invention provides display that permits a user to grasp time more intuitively. Data associated with respective dates is retrieved and displayed, each set of data being displayed in a display screen that is displayed smaller than that for preceding data i... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7629974 | Storage medium storage game image processing program, game image processing apparatus and game image processing method A video game apparatus functioning as a game image processing apparatus includes a CPU, and the CPU converts a resolution of a game image according to a game image processing program. A GPU draws an original game image on a frame buffer according to an instruction b... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7567249 | Three-dimensional drawing model generation method, three-dimensional model drawing method, and program thereof A three-dimensional drawing model generation method draw a three-dimensional model as a texture image, which decrease the number of polygons of the texture model and allows smooth drawing. By simplify appearance shape of the three-dimensional model and removing smal... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7561156 | Adaptive quadtree-based scalable surface rendering A 3D scalable surface renderer allows efficient real-time 3D rendering of high-detail smooth surfaces. The renderer is exceptionally effective with software rendering and low-end weaker graphics accelerators, and provides excellent visible quality per the amount of ... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7554543 | System and method for exact rendering in a zooming user interface A method and apparatus is disclosed that facilitates realistic navigation of visual content by displaying an interpolated image during navigation and a more exact image when the navigation ceases. Methodologies are disclosed for rendering and displaying “tiles”,... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7551172 | Sending three-dimensional images over a network A benefit is obtained for sending digital information over a network. The digital information is representative of three-dimensional images which include photographic images. The receiving computer renders the images from the received digital information, and a view... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548239 | Matching digital information flow to a human perception system A method and system for matching digital information flow to the human perception system. In various embodiments, multi-monitor (multimon) support is leveraged to take advantage of multiple windowing and window positioning to separate elements of different tasks int... | 06/16/2009 |
