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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7100050 | Secured signal modification and verification with privacy control A watermarking scheme is provided that allows the watermarked image to be authenticated by an authentication agent without revealing the human-readable content of the image. There is disclosed an approach that combines privacy control with watermarking and authentic... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7099804 | Automated horizontally structured manufacturing process design modeling Disclosed is a method of horizontally structured automated CAD/CAM manufacturing process, comprising: selecting a blank for machining into an actual part; establishing a coordinate system; creating a master process model comprising: virtual blank corresponding to th... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7098902 | Display driver, electro-optical device, and method of setting display driver parameters A display driver includes a correction parameter register which stores correction parameters for correcting contrast adjustment values; a computation circuit which adds a correction value specified by a correction parameter to a contrast adjustment value instructed ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7098908 | System and method for analyzing and imaging three-dimensional volume data sets A system and method is provided for analyzing and imaging three-dimensional volume data sets. In one embodiment of the invention, a ribbon section is produced which may include a plurality of planes projected from a polyline. The polyline may include one or more lin... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7098909 | Automatic generating device for 3-d structure shape, automatic generating method, program therefor, and recording medium recording the program An automatic three-dimensional structure shape generation apparatus for automatically generating the shape of a three-dimensional structure from a plurality of points having three-dimensional coordinates containing height information includes means for constituting ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7098911 | Placing feathers on a surface The present invention provides a computer implemented method for placing feathers on a surface. The method includes providing a surface having a plurality of vertices and establishing a growing direction for each of the plurality of vertices on the surface. Feathers... | 08/29/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7092035 | Block move engine with scaling and/or filtering for video or graphics An apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to calculate and present an output signal having a first resolution in response to (i) an input signal having a second resolution and (ii) one or more control signals. ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7091975 | Shape and animation methods and systems using examples Modern animation and modeling systems enable artists to create high-quality content, but provide limited support for interactive applications. Although complex forms and motions can be constructed either by hand or with motion or geometry capture technologies, once ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088468 | Data-conversion method for a multibeam laser writer for very complex microlithographic patterns The invention relates to microlithography, in particular to the writing of photomasks for computer displays, microelectronic devices, and precision photoetching. It is also applicable to wafers, optical devices and a variety of electronic interconnection structures ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088360 | Simplified identifier generation in a computer aided design (CAD) environment The invention includes computer instructions that operate to receive a request to generate an identifier in a computer aided design (CAD) application. Additionally, the instructions operate to determine if an input corresponds to a predetermined shape for the identi... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088359 | Vertex reordering in 3D graphics A method and apparatus for reordering the vertices of a graphics primitive. The vertices of the primitive are received in a circular order, but the position of the vertices in the circular order is arbitrary. The vertices include coordinates with respect to an origi... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088362 | Graphic computing apparatus A graphic computing apparatus has a shape divider which generates a subpolygon mesh by dividing the unit shape of the surface of an object present in a three-dimensional space into a plurality of subpolygons arranged two-dimensionally and having an arbitrary size, a... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7084883 | Image processing device, image processing method and program distribution medium and data distribution medium for processing images An image processing device and method for processing an image defined by a combination of unit graphic forms or polygons are provided with an interpolated line completion unit which determines an interpolated line which is the line that interpolates a space between ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7086006 | Component user interface management A user interface framework management system for managing the user interface of a software application is provided. The user interface framework management comprises a merged application user interface for receiving a software application user interface element of t... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7081903 | Efficient movement of fragment stamp A method and apparatus for visiting all productive stamp positions for a two-dimensional convex polygonal object. The object is visited with a stamp that has a stamp rectangle, and one or more discrete sample points. A productive location is one for which the object... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081902 | Apparatus, system, and method for gamma correction of smoothed primitives A graphics processor performed gamma correction of the coverage values of pixels. In one embodiment, a gamma correction factor is written into a run-time loadable lookup table of the graphics processor. The gamma corrected coverage values may be used in an anti-alia... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081894 | Picture drawing apparatus and picture drawing method The picture drawing method is in a graphics computer, a special effect device or a video game machine. Data required for picture drawing is generated by pre-processing by a pre-processor 32 based on a drawing command for drawing a picture model defined by the... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081892 | Image with depth of field using z-buffer image data and alpha blending A graphics image is produced for a computer display with depth of field information by producing a sharp image of a scene, producing a blur image of the scene, and producing z-buffer image data, and producing an alpha channel RGBA image comprising an alpha blend of ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081893 | System and method for point pushing to render polygons in environments with changing levels of detail A system and method are described for pushing child vertices to predetermined parent vertices to remove detail from an array of polygons. In one embodiment, a graphics engine identifies an LOD boundary that divides the array of polygons into low LOD and high LOD are... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079144 | Curve generating device and method, and program recorded medium A user gives, as input, two curves at a start time and at an end time and reference correspondence points with respect to the respective curves. Then, a pursuit operation of pursuing a reference correspondence point is carried out with respect to picture images succ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079153 | System and method for creating mark-making tools A mark-making tool creator creates mark-making tool definitions for a graphic computer software application having a mark-making tool handler for handling mark-making tools based on mark-making tool definitions. The mark-making tool creator comprises a donor handler... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079143 | Waveform drawing system and method A waveform drawing routine is disclosed that includes receiving an array of predecessor image data points, wherein the predecessor image data points form a predecessor line that has a predecessor high end point and a predecessor low end point, receiving an array of ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079908 | Horizontally-structured modeling for analysis A method of horizontally structured CAD/CAM/CAE modeling for analysis comprising: establishing a horizontally structured model of an object in a CAD/CAM/CAE modeling system; creating an analysis model from the horizontally structured model; and performing analysis e... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7079996 | System and method for design of experiments using direct surface manipulation of a mesh model A system and method for design of experiments (DOE) using direct surface manipulation of a mesh model. The method includes the steps of selecting a geometric model in a computer-aided design (CAD) format, converting the geometric model into a mesh model and evaluati... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7080065 | Query pruning using interior rectangles in an R-tree index To determine relationships among objects represented in a database at least one interior rectangle lying entirely within a first geometric shape is define. A minimum bounding area for the first geometry and a minimum bounding area for a second geometry are defined a... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076727 | Configuring activities to perform operations on user-defined fields A process control system that automatically monitors processes and performs activities based on conditions detected during monitoring. The information needed to do the monitoring and perform activities is contained in tables in a database system. The process control... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075538 | Methods and apparatus for faster line drawing on remote displays The present invention provides methods and apparatus for a computer network system to provide compact and efficient representations of graphics commands on drawing/displaying lines, circles, etc. The methods and apparatus exploit the redundancies and/or relations of... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075548 | Efficient detection of texture sharing between multiple contexts A technique for detecting texture sharing between multiple contexts having unique ID's includes obtaining a texture usage mask of a subject texture and a context ID of a subject context. A first logic operation with the texture usage mask of the subject texture and ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075532 | Robust tetrahedralization and triangulation method with applications in VLSI layout design and manufacturability A tetrahedralization and triangulation method used with the proximity based rounding method to satisfy topological consistency of tetrahedralization with the bounded precision of a digital computer is described. Tetrahedralization is applied to a VLSI design, and mo... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076412 | Method and apparatus for storing and selectively retrieving dimensions of geometry pieces of a mechanical design The present invention includes computer instructions that facilitate characterizing a geometry piece based upon one or more received input selections, generating a temporary dimension type based, at least in part, upon the characterization, storing the temporary dim... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071935 | Graphics system with just-in-time decompression of compressed graphics data A graphics system and method for increasing efficiency of decompressing blocks of compressed geometry data and reducing redundant transformation and lighting calculations is disclosed. Multiple decompression pipelines are used to increases the decompression speed. A... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7073124 | Display drafting apparatus and system therefor When the drafting operation with a display drafting apparatus and the generating operation with a control program schema generator proceed concurrently or separately, a step of temporarily storing the device of interest for display can be omitted to enhance the draf... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068272 | System, method and article of manufacture for Z-value and stencil culling prior to rendering in a computer graphics processing pipeline A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for early Z-value based culling prior to pixel rendering in a graphics pipeline. In initial stages of processing, Z-value culling is performed on at least one pixel. Thereafter, the pixel is conditionally rend... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065263 | Image processing apparatus, image input/output apparatus, scaling method and memory control method The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, an image input/output apparatus, a scaling method and a memory control method, by which input image data is written to an external memory in tiles, the tiles written to the external memory are read, and... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064858 | Apparatus and method for displaying preview images to print and a computer-readable medium having a program for displaying preview images to print recorded thereon Simultaneous display of a page preview and an enlarged view of a spot on the page was so far impossible. Supplied data for print is converted to bitmap data from which a previewer 33b simultaneously displays preview images in the page view displ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061490 | Multi-variate data and related presentation and analysis A recursively partitioned/nested geometric structure is employed to graphically present and/or facilitate analysis of multi-variate data, including functions of multi-dimensional variables. Visual attributes are associated with appropriate ones of the regions within... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061501 | Rendering a pencil-sketch image A pencil-sketch image is rendered from three-dimensional (3D) data by determining a pencil-sketch texture for a polygon defined by the 3D data, projecting the polygon onto a two-dimensional surface, and mapping the pencil-sketch texture onto the polygon to render th... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7061502 | Method and apparatus for providing logical combination of N alpha operations within a graphics system A graphics system including a custom graphics and audio processor produces exciting 2D and 3D graphics and surround sound. The system includes a graphics and audio processor including a 3D graphics pipeline and an audio digital signal processor. Logical combination ... | 06/13/2006 |
