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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7260535 | Web server controls for web enabled recognition and/or audible prompting for call controls Web server controls are provided for generating client side markups with recognition and/or audible prompting to enable telephone call controls such as making, transferring and disconnecting telephone calls. ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260539 | System for low-latency animation of talking heads Methods and apparatus for rendering a talking head on a client device are disclosed. The client device has a client cache capable of storing audio/visual data associated with rendering the talking head. The method comprises storing sentences in a client cache of a c... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257538 | Generating animation from visual and audio input A technique for generating an animated character based on visual and audio input from a live subject. Further described is a technique of extracting phonemes to select corresponding visemes to model a set of physical positions of the subject or emotional expression ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256787 | Method to imitate lifelike images for computer deformed objects A method to imitate lifelike images for computer deformed objects includes the following steps, selecting a number of significant points on an object, categorizing the significant points into measurable points and specific points, defining a relationship between the... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257252 | Voting-based video background mosaicking For each pixel in a video background mosaic, intensity values associated with corresponding pixels in multiple video frames are collected, and an intensity value associated with the majority of the corresponding pixels is selected. The selected intensity value defin... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7253817 | Virtual human interface for conducting surveys A virtual human interface for conducting survey questioning comprises a system and method which may include a script file which may include survey question data, response pattern data, expression data, advertising data, entertainment data, lobbying data and/or proce... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254283 | Image processor processing image data in parallel with a plurality of processors In order to efficiently process image data in a circuit dividing single image data into a plurality of data and processing the data with a plurality of MPUs in parallel with each other, the MPUs process image data input through an input image data in parallel with e... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254235 | Receiving mixed-media data Encrypted mixed media data (201) may be read by many browsers (101) from a server (108). Downloaded encrypted environment data includes data modification access codes. A user access code is received and an access check (214) is performed ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254223 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems Contact data in a database for a wireless personal communication device are remotely updatable from, or transferable between, a computer system using a radio frequency connection. New contact data, and changes or updates to existing contact data, are input at the co... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251788 | Simulated speed-of-light delay for recreational benefit applications Recreations which simulate space travel with space communication simulate the communication delays that would inhere at space distances. Recreation-related communications are passed through a store-and-forward server in which they are stored before forwarding for a ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7250944 | Geographic view of a modelling system Geo View is a three-dimensional virtual universe in which a real-world or virtual object may be represented by one or more virtual objects whose attributes are derived from attributes of the real-world object via a flexible user-specifiable mapping. Typically a two-... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251593 | Simulation system, method and computer-readable medium for human augmentation devices A system, a method and a computer readable medium are provided for simulating a combined musculoskeletal and augmentation device system. The dynamics model of the combined musculoskeletal and augmentation device system receives computed torques at the joints as inpu... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251674 | Internationalization of the web services infrastructure A method and system for processing a Web service request in a distributed computing environment. In one embodiment, the Web service request is processed in a Web service requester. A packet having a header containing an internationalization context of the Web servic... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7250952 | Forecast weather video presentation system and method A system and method for generating a realistic weather forecast visualization. Realistic weather graphics and animations are combined with a few of view of location of interest to allow weather presentation viewers to visualize future forecast weather conditions as ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251697 | Method and apparatus for structured streaming of an XML document A method and apparatus are disclosed for streaming an XML document/content in a structured manner that allows the receiver to decode prioritized portions of an XML document. Document models, such as XML Schemas, are utilized in converting XML documents into prioriti... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7251318 | Method and apparatus for improved personal communication devices and systems An apparatus and method provide a database in a pager that contains menus that may be displayed on a pager display. A paging service sends a page including an identification, retrieves a menu from the pager database and displays the menu. The pager responds to the p... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249367 | Method and apparatus for switching between multiple programs by interacting with a hyperlinked television broadcast A system and method of adding hyperlinked information to a television broadcast. The broadcast material is analyzed and one or more regions within a frame are identified. Additional information can be associated with a region, and can be transmitted in encoded form,... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248265 | System and method for processing graphics operations with graphics processing unit Disclosed is a system and method for processing graphic operations on a plurality of data structures of an image with a graphics processing unit and memory. The disclosed techniques of the system and method create an accumulation buffer of the data structures for ac... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248270 | Stroke-based posing of three-dimensional models A posing system for three-dimensional characters and other models uses a stroke-based gestural language to position elements of the characters in a three-dimensional environment. A user draws a stroke in a two-dimensional interface in connection with a portion of mo... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249190 | Enhanced data exchange and presentation/communication system A system for establishing a dedicated internet connection between a user and a marketer is described. The connection is initiated by a customer downloading a framework program for a viewer. Thereafter, as content is communicated to the user, it is included with prog... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249196 | Web page source file transfer system and method A method for transmitting web page source data over a computer network. The method typically includes receiving a request for the web page source data from a remote client. The web page source data contains renderable and non-renderable data. The request is received... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248267 | Method and apparatus for simulated direct frame buffer access for graphics adapters A method, data processing system, and computer instructions for simulating direct frame buffer access. A request for access to a frame buffer memory is received from an application. A portion of system memory is allocated for use as the frame buffer memory in respon... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245305 | Shading of images using texture Colors are obtained and used to shade two-dimensional non-photo realistic images of three-dimensional models. The colors are stored as texels in texture maps. The texels are chosen to shade the images based on their orientation in a scene. The colors may be obtained... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245315 | Distinguishing between fire and non-fire conditions using cameras Detecting fire and non-fire conditions includes receiving a plurality of frames of video information, determining an energy indicator for each of a subset of the plurality of frames, detecting a fire condition in response to the energy indicator for each of the subs... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7246367 | Synchronized service provision in a communications network The invention relates to the synchronized playback of video and/or audio recordings in terminals of a communications network. A server stores recordings including timing markers, each of which indicates an internal position within the recording. The system comprises... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243365 | Apparatus and method for delivery of metadata on ATVEF transport B enabled platform A method and associated apparatus for announcing and identifying metadata relating to available video programs and/or enhancements in an enhanced television communications system compliant with the standard set forth by the Advanced Television Enhancement Forum (ATV... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7243057 | Method for modeling complex occlusions in fluid simulations A method of incorporating effects of solid dynamic objects into each discrete time step of a fluid simulation in a high quality fashion on Cartesian grids. The method relies on modifying the fluid velocity field within regions internal to the solid objects prior to ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7243122 | Computer implemented method and apparatus for fulfilling a request for information content with a user-selectable version of a file containing that information content A method of fulfilling a request for information content with a user-selectable version of a file containing that information content. Selection of a hyperlink to information content results in generation of a menu of versions of files containing that information co... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242421 | Methods of establishing a communications link using perceptual sensing of a user's presence A method of establishing a communications link uses automatic sensing of a computer user's presence and activity state to record user attributes in a form accessible to other computers in a communications network. Such automatic sensing may include keyboard/mouse mo... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242408 | Graphical processing of object perimeter information A technique for graphically processing perimeter information includes determining a polar representation of the perimeter of an object to define polar perimeter information, storing the polar perimeter information, retrieving the stored polar perimeter information u... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242405 | Shape and animation methods and systems using examples Systems and methods for shape animation are described. In one aspect, a degree of freedom is linearly approximated. The degree of freedom is associated with a new form or motion for rendering based on multiple examples that define respective forms or motions within ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239320 | System and method for transmitting interactive synchronized graphics A method and system for compact representation of interactive data and transmitting the data via a computer network is disclosed. The system and method provide for logically separating the data into a graphical and multimedia data sections. The multimedia data secti... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239321 | Static and dynamic 3-D human face reconstruction A system for three-dimensional (3-D) facial animation, including a base 3-D surface model representing a human face, and a set of displacement fields representing surface motion patterns associated with muscle movements. Each displacement field is a displacement vec... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240075 | Interactive generating query related to telestrator data designating at least a portion of the still image frame and data identifying a user is generated from the user designating a selected region on the display screen, transmitting the query to the remote information system Methods, apparatuses, and systems enabling an interactive information retrieval system that includes a user interface allowing users to graphically generate information queries for objects of interest found in various media, such as television, video, and print. The... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240286 | Content editing apparatus, content editing method, content editing program, and computer-readable storage medium A content editing apparatus that edits digital broadcast content that is composed of a plurality of data carousels for realizing pseudo-interaction is provided. An operation reception unit receives identification information and a transmission start time and a trans... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239718 | Apparatus and method for high-speed marker-free motion capture A high-speed marker-free motion capture, which is capable of powerfully detecting a body's feature points corresponding to a body's end portions such as a head, hands, feet, trunk, arms and legs at a high speed in an illumination change or background or noises of ca... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239741 | Image processing device executing image processing on input image and processing method for the same An image processing device is composed of an image drawing section, an image input section, a corresponding-point searching section, and a processing parameter improving section. The image drawing section has a preset three-dimensional model image to draw a three-di... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240220 | Method and apparatus for cryptographic conversion in a data storage system When data is encrypted and stored for a long time, encryption key(s) and/or algorithm(s) should be updated so as not to be compromised due to malicious attack. To that end, stored encrypted data is converted in the storage system with new set of cryptographic criter... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239962 | Method and apparatus for a routing agent A method and apparatus for a route calculation engine is described. The method of calculating a route to a resource comprises identifying a plurality of locations at which the resource may be available and creating an optimal route through the plurality of locations... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239990 | Method for the numerical simulation of a physical phenomenon with a preferential direction The invention provides a method of simulating behavior of a flow interacting with an object. The invention improves the accuracy of the approximation of the spatial pth derivative Dp, p≧1, and therefore reduces the cost of the simulation. It ... | 07/03/2007 |
