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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7830393 | Device, method, and integrated circuit for rectangular image drawing In the case where a previous character (P1) is cleared on a screen (20) and a new character (P2) is displayed on the right of the previous one, first, image data to be transferred (P2) is prepared in a source image memory. Next, a write s... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7432937 | System and method for concave polygon rasterization An apparatus and method to render concave polygons. In some embodiments, the method includes setting an alpha buffer of a hardware rasterizer to zero, generating an alpha mask by rendering the concave polygon as a plurality of convex polygons of connected vertices, ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7400329 | Graphics images system and method A system for 3-dimensional gaming on a mobile handset is provided. The system includes a converter component operable to convert a pre-rendered 3-dimensional graphic image having 24-bit color resolution to a 3-dimensional graphic image having 16-bit color resolution... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7362334 | System for regional data association and presentation and method for the same A database methodology that concerns the mapping of any arbitrary object into a plurality of regions, enabling the assignment of multiple region-specific attributes thereto and facilitating the concurrent, graphical presentation of any assigned attributes. Attribute... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352366 | Dynamic rendering of ink strokes with transparency Apparatus and methods for dynamically rendering transparent ink strokes, in some situations such that the rendered ink stroke has transparency similar to physical ink while it is being drawn. For example, the ink stroke may be dynamically rendered as a stroke having... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348996 | Method of and system for pixel sampling A method, system, and article of manufacture for reducing aliasing. A method in accordance with one embodiment sampling a pixel of an image at a plurality of pixel sample points to produce a corresponding plurality of pixel sample values, wherein at least one of the... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348993 | System and method for obtaining accurate image content A method and system for allowing a computer system platform the ability to create image content is provided. Captured image data of an original image is received and information corresponding to colorimetric points is measured. Automatic determinations are made as t... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7345691 | Method of image processing and electronic device utilizing the same A method of image processing using neural networks. Images to be processed and displayed are received. Each image is divided into sections, each comprising pixels represented by color values. A neural network training procedure is executed for the sections to obtain... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7333117 | Method of compensating colors in image display device for users with color vision deficiency and device of the same Disclosed are a method of compensating colors in an image display device for users with color vision deficiency and a device of the same, enabling the users with color vision deficiency to view display images as vividly and naturally as normal users. The method for ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7312800 | Color correction of digital video images using a programmable graphics processing unit A system which utilizes the processing capabilities of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in the graphics controller. Each frame of each video stream or track is decoded into a buffer and a color profile indicating parameters of the color space of the video source i... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7277100 | Managing multi-component data Multi-component data is managed. Pixel image data is stored in a machine readable memory device. The pixel image data is decomposed into multiple colorspace components. The multiple colorspace components are stored in one continuous machine-readable memory segment o... | 10/02/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7239323 | Color display driving apparatus in a portable mobile telephone with color display unit A color display driving apparatus that simultaneously on-screen displays an RGB format color image and a YUV format color image on the same color display unit. A first memory stores YUV data, and a YUV-RGB converter converts YUV data read from the first memory to RG... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231632 | System for reducing the number of programs necessary to render an image A system for reducing memory and computational requirements of graphics operations. The system provides techniques for combining otherwise individual operations to apply filters to images. A combined filter emerging from the combination spares the processor time and... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7230630 | Graphics display systems with data compression and methods of performing data compression of graphics data Graphics display systems include a graphics data compression circuit having a data encoder therein. The data encoder is configured to compress second color graphics data to be rendered as a second pixel of a display into a data string containing a data field and a h... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227551 | Manipulating text and graphic appearance A method, device and computer system for creating a smooth, continuous height (scalar or vector) field are described. The described techniques permit arbitrary closed regions to be smoothly shaded without producing unnatural smoothness at the region's edges or bound... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224369 | Image processing apparatus and method of same An image processing apparatus, able to improve the pixel fill rate and able to prevent an increase of memory resources and increase of memory access, provided with a color calculation circuit for performing pixel level processing based on supplied first attribute pa... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221475 | Color image processing apparatus The invention relates to a color image processing apparatus and, more particularly, to adjusting means of a color tone and a sharpness. According to the invention, there is provided a color image processing apparatus characterized by having processing means for perf... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7200808 | Electronic document processor An electronic document processor is provided in which a controller sets a size of an abstract display area, in an entire display area, according to an input supplied to an input unit, determines an abstract length based on the set abstract display area size, generat... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7176944 | Opacity based interference texture A method and apparatus for generating a colored or shaded texture for images to be displayed on a display device or printed. The method includes the step of providing a plurality of shape elements, each of which defines a surface. Each of the shape elements also has... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7151522 | Display driver, electro-optical device, and method of setting display driver parameters A display driver includes a control register; a memory control circuit which controls EEPROM access; and a register write circuit which writes a display characteristic control parameter that has been read from EEPROM to the control register at power-on, at a system ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7116333 | Data retrieval method and system One aspect of the invention is a method for data retrieval. The method includes the step of rendering geometry from a selected perspective (140) to produce a plurality of data values (130, T′AB). The method also includes the steps of stori... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7091985 | System and method for compressing color data using expandable color palette A method, apparatus, and information bearing medium for compressing color utilizes an expandable color palette for storing a pre-established number of n-bit color codes. Each of the n-bit color codes maps to an m-bit color value, where m is an integer greater than n... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7081900 | Graphical user interface for color correction A graphical user interface facilitates color modification of a sequence of segments of moving images on a display of a general purpose computer. The graphical user interface may include a three-image display. The three image display may include a first region on the... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7068285 | Image converting apparatus and method thereof A system and method for converting color images divides a first image into first RGB values per pixel, determines which of the RGB colors in the first image has a greater specific gravity, converts the first RGB values into second RGB color values based on the color... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7053909 | Display method and display apparatus The display method and apparatus display colors used in color information on a display unit capable of displaying gray scale. The method and apparatus convert the colors into gray scale values so as to enable differences in the colors to be identified even when the ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7015922 | Image display method and portable terminal for displaying selected image An image display method for displaying description data having text information and image information described in a predetermined description format. The image display method comprises the steps of extracting attribute values indicating attributes for specifying th... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015931 | Method and apparatus for representing and searching for color images A method of representing a color image comprises selecting a region of the image, selecting one or more colors as representative colors for the region and, for a region having two or more representative colors, calculating two parameters for each representative colo... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6992678 | Image processing apparatus and method of same An image processing apparatus, able to improve the pixel fill rate and able to prevent an increase of memory resources and increase of memory access, provided with a color calculation circuit for performing pixel level processing based on supplied first attribute pa... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6985524 | Apparatus and method for adjusting real time video to compensate for color blindness An apparatus and a method are provided for adjusting real time video to compensate for color blindness. A video system includes a decoder that receives and decodes a video signal into original color signals. A processor receives the original color signals and output... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6943801 | System and method for refreshing imaging devices or displays on a page-level basis The present invention provides a system and method for checking authorization of remote configuration operations. The method comprises storing at least one image frame such that content of the image frame is stored in a plurality of memory pages in a memory. The met... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6914613 | Color selection method The present invention is directed to a color selection method, which includes the steps of selecting colors in accordance with identification criteria supplied, for example, by a vehicle manufacturer; displaying the colors in the form of color reference chips on the... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6897873 | Display control apparatus having replaceable color palette A display control apparatus contains a video memory, a video memory controller, a color palette memory and a color palette replacer signal generator. The video memory stores display data that are read from a CD-ROM and contain header data (HA-HD), palette data (P... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6891545 | Color burst queue for a shared memory controller in a color sequential display system A system and method for managing memory in display processing circuit for use with a color sequential display. The system comprises: a shared memory; and a storage queue coupled to the shared memory, wherein the storage queue includes: a system for receiving and sto... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6876400 | Apparatus and method for protecting a memory sharing signal control lines with other circuitry An apparatus such as a television signal receiver includes first and second circuit boards. The first circuit board includes a memory, and control circuitry for controlling at least one function of the apparatus. The second circuit board is operably coupled to the f... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6870578 | Apparatus and method for sharing signal control lines An apparatus such as a television signal receiver includes first and second circuit boards. The first circuit board includes a first device such as a memory, and control circuitry for controlling at least one function of the apparatus. The second circuit board is op... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6850246 | Screen display unit capable of displaying greater number of colors on the same screen A screen display unit includes a display RAM to which a CPU writes palette codes corresponding to character codes, and a selector for selecting display color data read from one of two color palettes on a character code by character code basis in response to the pale... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6847373 | Natural color matching in a video editing system Colors in an image that are selected as a source color can be matched to a selected destination color such that the modification to the image appears natural. Components of a selected destination color having a first luminance and components of a source color having... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6847410 | Picture data memory device with picture data input channels and picture data output channels A picture data memory device which can be used universally comprises a central picture data memory for storing picture data of a plurality of picture data input channels, in which case the stored picture data can additionally be read out via a plurality of picture d... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6831645 | System and method for performing font operations when background color is transparent One embodiment of a method of performing a font operation involves receiving a set of font data identifying a font operation to be performed. If a first font data unit in the set indicates that a first coordinate should be a background color and transparent backgrou... | 12/14/2004 |
