Quotables
"One of the greatest labor saving inventions of today is tomorrow!"
Vincent T. Floss
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4952051 | Method and apparatus for producing animated drawings and in-between drawings A method and system which enables an animator to make drawings and in-between drawings. Preceding and following tweens 74 and 75 are shown to the animator in such a way that they are distinguishable from each other and from the in-between drawing 73 on wh... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4951038 | Apparatus for displaying a sprite on a screen Apparatus for displaying a sprite on a screen comprises sprite attribute tables each including coordinates indicating a display position of a sprite, a pattern code defining the sprite in regard to pattern data, and control data defining a display mode of... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4951039 | Animated data display interleaving A portable communications receiver is disclosed having a receiver for receiving and detecting periodically transmitted selective call paging signals and data signals. In response to the selective call paging signal, a decoder generates control signals whi... | 08/21/1990 |
| 4947257 | Raster assembly processor A system for combining a plurality of video signals and various forms of still imagery such as text or graphics into a single high resolution display is disclosed. The invention system utilizes a multiport memory and a key based memory access system to fl... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4935879 | Texture mapping apparatus and method A texture mapping apparatus for the real-time display of a figure in which an animated image has been mapped. The apparatus includes a device which generates 2D (2 dimensional) source coordinates data which provide a source for texture mapping data corres... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4918435 | Method for processing animated graphics In a method for processing animated graphic in which a graphic symbol is displayed on a displaying unit on the basis of data preliminarily set in a video RAM and the displayed graphic symbol is totally shifted by a predetermined amount, the graphic symbol... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4905168 | Object processing for video system using slips and linked list There is disclosed herein a system for rapid processing of the data records of many moving and nonmoving objects on a playfield only part of which is displayed and for determining collisions between objects. A search pipeline using a synchrounous state ma... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4897806 | Pseudo-random point sampling techniques in computer graphics A computer database contains visual and other information of an object scene from which a television monitor or film display is created by electronically sampling points of the object scene information in the computer memory. Undesirable effects of aliasi... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4895376 | Interactive video game An interactive game includes a housing with a first part and a second part. The first part is moveable with respect to the second part and carries a liquid crystal display. Switches provide electrical signals indicating the position of the first part with... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4894774 | Lookahead pipeline for processing object records in a video system There is disclosed herein a system for rapid processing of the data records of many moving and nonmoving objects on a playfield only part of which is displayed and for determining collisions between objects. A search pipeline using a synchronous state mac... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4893198 | Method and apparatus for performing high speed video animation An animation recording process is particularly adapted to videotape recorders of the type having a control panel display, multifunction soft keys, and are microprocessor controlled. Rapid recording of large pluralities of still images is effected using th... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4893256 | Interactive video composition and presentation systems A method for specifying and executing independent, multi-media tasks along a synchronizing time-line, preferably in the form of a spreadsheet matrix with the event elements making up the rows and the time periods the columns. The media include various pie... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4884972 | Speech synchronized animation A system for providing randomly-accessible animated objects having synchronous audio and visual features suitable for use as an education system or video entertainment system is provided. The speech sounds and the associated visual and behavioral characte... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4884199 | User transaction guidance A user guidance display system provides an animated display of example action being entered into a displayed image of the machine, to show a self-service machine user how the machine is to be operated. The various graphic images which show the prospective... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4864517 | Graphics display system using frame buffers A method and apparatus creates a display of a scene having a plurality of object elements. One or more frame buffers are utilized in creating the display.... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4864289 | Video display control system for animation pattern image A video display control system displays a multicolor animation pattern on a screen of a video display unit. The video display control system is mainly constructed by a video RAM (VRAM) and a video display processor (VDP). The VRAM stores animation pattern... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4841291 | Interactive animation of graphics objects A technique is described for animating graphics objects (sprites) on a display. The display manager allows a user to select a sprite from the display or from a sprite table. Then the user selects the operation to perform on the sprite. Enabled operations ... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4827532 | Cinematic works with altered facial displays The invention relates to a cinematic work and includes substituting for an original sound track of a motion picture a new sound track in a different language while at the same time correcting the lip movements of actors in the film to correspond to the ne... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4821220 | System for animating program operation and displaying time-based relationships In a computerized simulation system, the behavior of a model comprising a group of interrelated objects in an object oriented programming environment is defined by a constraint network including temporal constraints, which the future behavior of the model... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4797836 | Image orientation and animation using quaternions A method for orientating and animating video images using quaternions to provide smooth, predictable rotations in a digital video effect device. Euler angles for a new orientation are input by an operator and are converted into an appropriate quaternion. ... | 01/10/1989 |
| 4774506 | Process for producing synthetic video images for real time visual display and high information density and apparatus using this process The process is based on the time-evolutive nature of each of the elements for previously determining a subdivision of the stored image into separate zones, corresponding with the distribution of the elements in the image, and for allocating to each zone a... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4764763 | Electronic sketching device An electronic sketching device. The electronic sketching device includes a display for providing a visual representation of a sketch on a display area. The electronic sketching device also including a cursor controller for moving a cursor on the display a... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4760390 | Graphics display system and method with enhanced instruction data and processing A system for the storage, retrieval and manipulation of significantly large amounts of data to produce highly complex and visually pleasing graphics within the time constraint of a full motion video raster scanning system by storing memory data correspond... | 07/26/1988 |
| 4642710 | Animated display controlled by an audio device An animated display in the form of a representation of a face, is controlled by an associated audio tape player and a microprocessor-controlled liquid crystal display. The facial features are variable responsively to the audio signals of the tape player a... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4628470 | Apparatus and method for generating a pictorial display on a measuring instrument during a metering process To start a metering process, the operator enters the desired weight value into a display control. The display contains a container shaped figure which is "filled" as material is added to the balance. The rate at which the container fills relative to the r... | 12/09/1986 |
| 4623147 | Process for displaying a plurality of objects on a video screen A process is disclosed for displaying a plurality of objects on a video display screen. A video computer system (VCS) includes a microprocessor unit (MPU), a television interface adapter (TIA) having first and second high-resolution player graphics capabi... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4600200 | Three-dimensional image display system A three-dimensional image display system comprising a video information memory, storing video information in the form of a perspective view, a reading circuit for reading out the video information stored in the video information memory while scrolling the... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4600919 | Three dimensional animation The disclosure is directed to an improved method and apparatus for generating a sequence of video frames representative of three-dimensional animation. A plurality of key frames are stored, each key frame including a common figure having one or more joint... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4580782 | Memory mapping scheme for one-dimensional memory storage system A one-dimensional memory storage device, such as a video disc, is utilized to store graphic image symbols for video game displays. The storage device is organized so that the graphic symbols may be retrieved rapidly enough to give the visual impression th... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4569026 | TV Movies that talk back A video entertainment system by which human viewers conduct simulated voice conversations with screen actors or cartoon characters in a branching story game shown on a television screen. The actors and cartoon characters reply responsively with lip-sync s... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4445187 | Video games with voice dialog A video game system by which human viewers conduct simulated voice conversations with game characters or cartoon characters in a branching story game shown on a television screen. The characters and cartoons reply responsively with lip-sync sound to words... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4333152 | TV Movies that talk back A video entertainment system by which human viewers conduct simulated voice conversations with screen actors or cartoon characters in a prerecorded branching movie shown on a television screen. The actors and cartoons reply responsively with lip-sync soun... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4305131 | Dialog between TV movies and human viewers A video amusement system by which one or more viewers influence the course of a motion picture as if each viewer were a participant in a real-life drama or dialog. A speech-recognition unit recognizes a few spoken words such as "yes" and "run" spoken by a... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4276570 | Method and apparatus for producing an image of a person's face at a different age In order to simulate the appearance of a different age on a person's face, a picture of an old face and a corresponding young face are recorded and the differences between the old and young face found and recorded. A picture of the person's face to be sim... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4189743 | Apparatus and method for automatic coloration and/or shading of images The invention is an improved apparatus and method for the automatic coloration and/or shading of images, and especially images utilized for presenting animated motion pictures. Display means are provided, preferably at least one display for displaying mon... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4053740 | Video game system A self-contained operator responsive video game system is disclosed. The system is capable of generating a virtually unlimited number of games where a player responds to and controls high resolution objects drawn on a display device such as a cathode ray ... | 10/11/1977 |
| 4045789 | Animated video image display system and method System and method for producing an animated image of a moving object on a video display screen wherein digital data for a plurality of progressively different images of the object is stored in a memory and read out during successive frames of the picture.... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4026555 | Television display control apparatus Keyboard-controlled apparatus for producing video signals for standard television receivers includes a random access memory having a multiplicity of storage positions each of which corresponds to a preselected discrete portion of the TV raster. Data store... | 05/31/1977 |
| 3937878 | Animated dithered display systems Dithered display systems are adapted to present animated images via a conditional replenishment technique. The only cells of the display panel which are accessed for any given frame are cells which are to have states in that frame which differ from their ... | 02/10/1976 |
