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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7173631 | Flexible antialiasing in embedded devices A three-dimensional (3D) graphics pipeline renders a sequence of images of 3D scenes each composed of a plural set of objects. The pipeline comprises an antialiasing oversampling mechanism to perform for a given image, at an early stage of the pipeline, oversampling... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7173622 | Apparatus and method for generating 3D images A method of representing n-dimensional parametric surfaces (animated shapes) is provided that expresses all shapes in a consistent manner to reduce storage requirements, support deformation and simplify interaction between shapes. The method, a version of sweeps, re... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7173618 | Image creation program and method of creating image A character object 2001 which stands on a ground in a virtual space is arranged to rise on a land object 1802. Here, the character object 2001 is arranged to look towards a side of a virtual camera 1601. Further, the land object 1802 | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171051 | Method and apparatus for performing fixed blocksize compression for texture mapping Method and apparatus for providing texture and/or alpha compression. In one embodiment, the present invention incorporates stored palettes, e.g., a luminance palette and a chrominance palette such that, compressed texture data pertaining to a fixed blocksize is deco... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170526 | Method and apparatus for redirecting the output of direct rendering graphics calls One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates redirecting the output of direct rendering graphics calls in a 3D window system. The system interposes a redirection library between an application and a direct rendering library in the 3D wi... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170523 | Drawing-information processing apparatus and drawing-information processed method A drawing-information processing apparatus is used for setting drawing information at positions specified through a drawing-information inputting part. An attribute-inputting part is used for setting attribute of the drawing information, and a changing part is used ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170524 | Line drawing image generating device, storage medium, and line drawing image generating method In an original image, an area whose brightness is smaller than a predetermined value is detected as an ink line area, and a neighboring area of the ink line area, which surrounds the ink line area, is detected as a neighboring area. Furthermore, with respect to an a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170525 | Texturing system A texturing system for use in a three-dimensional graphics system has an input for receiving object data for an object to be textured. Encrypted texture data is obtained from a store a decrypted in a decryption unit. The decrypted texture data generates texture imag... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170509 | Information processing apparatus, program for product assembly process display, and method for product assembly process display A hard disk stores a CAD file having 3-D data that relates to an assembly product comprised of a plurality of parts. Based on this 3-D data of an assembly product, a parts data retriever retrieves 3-D data for each part. According to this 3-D data for each part, a b... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170527 | Interactive horizon mapping Shadows, which play an important role in perceiving the shape and texture of an object, are simulated interactively in a real time, self-shadowing of a bump mapped surface for a computer rendered object. A computer graphics textured object function defines a horizon... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167183 | Reorganized anisotropic sampling order The current invention involves new systems and methods for reorganizing a texture sampling order that is used to read texels from a texel cache. When anisotropic filtering is used to process the texels read from the texel cache, the texels are read in an order based... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7168037 | Text composition spacing amount setting device with icon indicators Methods and apparatus for setting a text composition spacing amount for a DTP system. At least one inter-character-class spacing amount setting table, for use in line composition, groups similar characters, forms a plurality of character classes and sets inter-chara... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167596 | Image processing method for generating three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional screen The image processing device is designed to retrieve a predetermined data section from data composing a first image, to retrieve a coefficient value from a predetermined table using a value of the retrieved data section as an index, and to subject the first image to ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167179 | Image sensing apparatus, image synthesizing method, image processing apparatus, and image processing method An image sensing unit generates a video signal by image-sensing an object. A detecting unit detects a feature of a picture contained in the video signal. An animation generating unit generates animation data on the basis of the detected feature. The generated animat... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167165 | Temporary lines for writing A user is provided with guidelines that are temporarily displayed with content, in order to assist the user in neatly and accurately writing electronic ink. The guidelines may appear when the user moves a writing tool, such as a stylus or pen, close to a display and... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167177 | Macrostructure modeling with microstructure reflectance slices A method and system for efficient synthesis of photorealistic free-form knitwear, where a single cross-section of yarn serves as the basic primitive for modeling entire articles of knitwear. This primitive, called the lumislice, describes radiance from a yarn cross-... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164424 | Interactive water effects using texture coordinate shifting A system and process for adding a photorealistic rendering of a body of water to a virtual 3D scene or image and creating a video therefrom having interactive water effects. A region of water is added to an image by adding an area depicting the original scene as it ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7164421 | Image generation system, program, and information storage medium An image generation system, program, and information storage medium can realistically represent reflection of light on a given object or topographic surface with a reduced computation load. The image generation system includes a section which assigns, to a given obj... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161609 | Multiple-bit storage element for binary optical display element An optical display element of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed that comprises a binary optical display element and a multiple-bit storage element to store a number of bits of a color intensity value to be displayed by the binary optical display element d... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7161601 | Synthesis of progressively-variant textures and application to arbitrary surfaces Methods for synthesizing progressively-variant textures based on texton masks are provided. A first method creates a synthesized texture image guided by a sample texture, first texton mask corresponding to the sample texture and a second texton mask modified based o... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158143 | Fast algorithm for anisotropic texture sampling A faster algorithm for computing the texture of a pixel is disclosed. A major and minor direction in texel space are determined. Steps in the major direction are set to unity and steps in the minor direction are set to the slope of the anistropy line of the footprin... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158155 | Subfield coding circuit and subfield coding method A subfield coding circuit which subfield-converts R, G, and B image data for producing subfield-converted image data, includes (a) a multiplexer which multiplexes R, G, and B image data, (b) a memory such as a static random access memory (SRAM), including a single l... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158178 | Method of converting a sub-sampled color image A method of converting from a sub-sampled color image in a first color space format to a full color image in a second color space format includes the following. A sub-sampled color image in a first color space format is transformed to a second color space format. At... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158138 | System and method for drawing and painting with warped bitmap brushes A system and method is described for rendering a warped brush stroke using a bitmap brush image, the brush stroke being along a arbitrarily curved guideline. The described system and method generate a piecewise linear approximation to the guideline followed by gener... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158135 | Efficient scenery object rendering The number of graphic objects in a visual tile rendered varies as a function of distance between the tile and a viewpoint in a simulation. Fewer objects are rendered when the tile is far from the viewpoint, and vise versa. A level of detail (LOD) value is pseudo-ran... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158147 | Method and apparatus for pixel filtering using shared filter resource between overlay and texture mapping engines A configurable filter module for providing shared filter resource between an overlay engine and a texture mapping engine of a graphics system. The configurable filter may comprise a plurality of linear blend units each of which receives data input from one of the ov... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154504 | System and method for fast, smooth rendering of lit, textured spheres Disclosed is a system for rendering an image of an object having a curved surface. The system includes a component for determining an integer M number of attributes relating to rendering the image and a component for pre-computing an integer N number of attributes r... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154507 | System, method and computer program product for texture shading A system, method and computer program product are provided for texture shading in a hardware graphics processor. Initially, a plurality of texture coordinates is identified. Further, it is determined whether a hardware graphics processor is operating in a texture sh... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154506 | 3D stereo browser for the internet A viewer for viewing stereo images either downloaded over a network, such as the Internet, or resident on a personal computer uses a graphical user interface (GUI) to facilitate the display of wireframes with or without texture applied in a variety of formats. In st... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154503 | Methods and systems for brush composition In various embodiments, methods and systems for brush composition are described. In one particular application of brush composition, opacity issues are addressed by focusing on the composition of objects having opacity effects in terms of the brushes that are used t... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151545 | System and method for applying accurate three-dimensional volume textures to arbitrary triangulated surfaces Systems and methods for displaying volume data on an arbitrary three-dimensional polygonal surface are disclosed. For each polygon in the polygonal surface, a two-dimensional texture tile is created and these texture tiles are combined to form texture atlases. Each ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151546 | Restricting scope of blending modes in 2-D compositing using isolated groups Methods and apparatus, including computer programs, for processing transparency attributes of digital graphics objects. The techniques result in the color compositing of an arbitrary structure of artwork elements defining the appearance of a page to produce a result... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151862 | Image processing apparatus and method, storage medium, and program Texture data filtered according to each of different reduction ratio are stored in a texture buffer. A texture mapping apparatus (an lod calculating apparatus) calculates an lod (Level Of Detail) which represents a reduction ratio of each pixel of a polygon. The cal... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151544 | Method for improving texture cache access by removing redundant requests Cache access is optimized through identifying redundant accesses (read-requests made to identical system memory addresses), and issuing a single cache data request for each group of redundant accesses. One embodiment of the invention is a graphics system comprising ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7148897 | Rendering successive frames in a graphic object system Disclosed is an imaging engine system (699) generally intended for the reproduction of graphical object images using apparatus having limited computing resources, such as so-called “thin clients”. Numerous developments of traditional image processing and ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148899 | Texture mapping 3D objects A texture is applied to a 3D graphic object using a computer system by providing a graphic indication of a mapping between a 3D graphic object and a texture map and modifying the mapping based on a manipulation of the graphic indication. Alternatively, or in additio... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149346 | Three-dimensional database generating system and method for generating three-dimensional database In addition to height data for objects being calculated from stereographic pair images photographed from a satellite, information on outlines is also extracted, and by integrating this height data with the stereographic pair images a three-dimensional database is ge... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149367 | User interface for a system and method for head size equalization in 360 degree panoramic images A User Interface (UI) for a real-time panoramic image correction system and method that simplifies the use of the system for the user. The UI includes a control panel that allows a user to enter meeting table size and shape, camera position and orientation, and the ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148887 | System and method for performing a three-dimensional virtual segmentation and examination with optical texture mapping A system and method for generating a three-dimensional visualization image of an object such as an organ using volume visualization techniques and exploring the image using a guided navigation system which allows the operator to travel along a flight path and to adj... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7149368 | System and method for synthesis of bidirectional texture functions on arbitrary surfaces A bidirectional texture function (BTF) synthesizer serves to synthesize BTFs on arbitrary manifold surfaces using “surface textons” given a sample BTF as an input. The synthesized BTFs fit the surface geometry naturally and seamlessly, and not only look similar ... | 12/12/2006 |
