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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7301543 | Systems and methods for selecting a white point for image displays Several embodiments of the present application disclose techniques, systems and methods for changing or rendering input image data that may assume a first white point for a given display into image data to be rendered under a second—assumed, desired or measured—... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301544 | Printing tree-described documents 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... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302373 | System and method for visualizing data in a three-dimensional scene A method for displaying a plurality of measurement data along a borehole trajectory includes displaying a borehole model representing the borehole trajectory; and displaying the plurality of measurement data as at least one layer overlaying the borehole model, where... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298374 | Scheme for providing wrinkled look in computer simulation of materials Scheme for use in cloth simulation that provides a good dynamic “wrinkled” look to the cloth as it moves. The simulated area of each of the triangles in the triangle mesh is compared with the original area of the triangle to determine how much it got compressed ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298378 | Virtual reality universe realized as a distributed location network A virtual reality network provides access to a number of virtual reality representations, each virtual reality representation representing a location in a virtual universe and defined by VR data stored on the network. The VR data can be in a simplified data format. ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298379 | Luminance preserving color conversion from YUV to RGB This invention presents a YUV to RGB conversion method which preserves high precision of luminance information in an original YUV image signal when converting it to RGB signal. The method can be used to convert the original YUV signal to arbitrary quantization level... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295347 | Image processing method for generating multi-level data A method of processing image data when generating multi-level data having arbitrary levels with arbitrary level spacing. The method scales the value of the input pixel to a common level spacing in relation to the arbitrary level spacing in which the input pixel resi... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295214 | Color melding apparatus and method Techniques for locating an array of melded colors onto a software application's component window in order to create three-dimensional and multicolor graphics within the component window. The techniques include decoding a first and second color into their respective ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295205 | Method and system for optimizing a finite element mesh Computer-implemented method and system for optimizing a finite element mesh. Computing devices are configured to calculate a quality score for at least one original element in a finite element mesh based upon two or more quality attributes simultaneously. A quality ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295213 | Apparatus and method for converting metadata color temperature and apparatus and method for providing metadata A method and an apparatus for converting the color temperature of metadata and a method and an apparatus for providing image metadata are provided. The apparatus for providing image metadata includes an input unit, an image metadata decoding unit, and an image color... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295705 | Image processing apparatus and method When one viewing condition parameter is applied to all pixels, a visual effect between a single color and a background expressed on a rasterized image cannot be reflected on a color matching result. To prevent this, when color matching using a human color appearance... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295173 | Image display method An image display method including dividing an original image for one frame period into a plurality of subfield images, arranging the subfield images in a direction of a time axis in an order of brightness of the subfield images, and displaying the arranged subfield ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296184 | Method and system for masking dynamic regions in a user interface to enable testing of user interface consistency A system and method for masking dynamic regions of a user interface that assist in testing of the static user interface layout. The masking regions are used to eliminate the regions of the user interface layout that are expected to change during a verification proce... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293243 | Application sharing viewer presentation An improved application sharing system and method are described wherein an application sharing viewing display is modified to increase the likelihood that a viewing user is able to see without scrolling the entirety of a window of interest displayed by a sharing use... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292724 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method The present invention provides an image processing apparatus on which an image forming engine for forming a full-color image by using color materials corresponding to data of color tones on the basis of C (cyan), M (magenta), Y (yellow), and K (black) data is mounte... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292252 | Projection type image display system, projector, program, information storage medium and image projection method capable of avoiding obstacles in the projection area To provide a projection type image display system, projector, program, information storage medium and image projection method which can project an image applicable to viewing environment of a changed projection position, a liquid crystal projector is provided with: ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292255 | Image data acquisition optimisation A method of creating an image is disclosed. The image is formed by rendering at least a plurality of graphical objects to be composited according to a first hierarchical structure (eg. 4500) representing a compositing expression for the image. The first hiera... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292207 | Computing blending functions for the tiling of overlapped video projectors A system for correcting the intensities of pixels supplied to a projector. An image generated by the projector has a number of regions formed by the overlapping of the image with one or more other images generated by one or more other projectors. The system includes... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292253 | Display apparatus, information display method, information display program, readable recording medium, and information apparatus A display apparatus (1) comprises a display device (10) and a control section (40) for displaying characters by using sub-pixel rendering. Each character is displayed in a frame having a predetermined size. The control section (40) has a ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289164 | System and method for color palette conversion from TV unsafe to TV safe colors The system and software of the present invention presents a process for translating a source palette containing TV unsafe colors into a resultant modified palette containing only TV safe colors, while preserving the color trends in the source palette. The software w... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289119 | Statistical rendering acceleration Different rendering techniques are selected for portions of a scene based on statistical estimates of the portions' rendering costs. A scene is partitioned into a bounding volume hierarchy. Each bounding volume includes a statistical model of the spatial distributio... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7290042 | Server apparatus and system The present invention provides a server apparatus, which can fetch image data in a desired state and a system including the server apparatus. In the server apparatus, received designation information is analyzed. When specific profile data is designated by profile d... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289100 | Method and apparatus for driving liquid crystal display A method of driving a liquid crystal display includes arranging an externally provided first data into a histogram for each frame, producing a second data having an expanded contrast using the histogram, determining a control value by extracting a peak value at a po... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289126 | Gamma-corrected texel storage in a graphics memory Methods, circuits, and apparatus for handling gamma-corrected texels stored in a graphics memory. On-the-fly gamma-to-linear and linear-to-gamma conversions are performed such that gamma-corrected texels are provided to circuits that are able to process them, while ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289127 | Multi-conic gradient generation Disclosed herein is a technique for computing a complex gradient using multiple conics. In connection with a computer system having a graphics processing unit (GPU) in addition to the normal central processing unit (CPU), gradients can be computed in real time. The ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289128 | Image processing device The image processing device of the present invention maps signal values on saturation segments to corresponding signals on an achromatic axis. In conjunction with this, mapping of color signal present around the saturation segments is mapped while preserving the con... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286269 | Use of an input black and white bitmap to generate emboldened anti-aliasing bitmap A computer-implemented simulated emboldening mechanism for emboldening an input Black and White bitmap to generate an emboldened Anti-Aliasing bitmap. The simulated emboldening adjusts the intensity of the pixel in the direction of emboldening taking into account co... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286724 | Method and apparatus for searching, browsing and summarizing moving image data using fidelity for tree-structure moving image hierarchy A method and apparatus for searching, browsing and summarizing moving image data using the fidelity of a tree-structured moving image hierarchy, which can partition or divide the moving image data into predetermined units, extract a key frame or representative frame... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286707 | Object-detection method multi-class Bhattacharyya Boost algorithm used therein The present invention discloses an object-detection method and a multi-class Bhattacharyya Boost algorithm used therein, wherein firstly, integral images are calculated from an image data in order to speed up the extraction of the characteristics of the objects; the... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287234 | Methods, systems and computer program products for use of color saturation to highlight items in a tree map visualization Data from a data set is displayed as a tree map visualization by identifying data elements in the data set to be highlighted and generating a tree map visualization based on the data set where a location of bounding boxes corresponding to the identified data element... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286720 | 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... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286121 | Sub-component based rendering of objects having spatial frequency dominance parallel to the striping direction of the display Mechanisms for rendering an object on a portion of a display that includes pixel sub-components for each pixel. The pixel sub-components are striped along a certain direction (e.g., vertically or horizontally). The computing system determines that the object has spa... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286136 | Display and weighted dot rendering method The invention relates to a display and an image data processing system. According to the arrangement of the display, two color dots having lower light intensity than the other two color dots in a white balance status are disposed on diagonal positions of the pixel g... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286146 | Method and system for LED temporal dithering to achieve multi-bit color resolution A method and system for temporal dithering of an LED indicator are disclosed, one embodiment of the method comprising: initializing the LED indicator to display a first color of a color palette; during each cycle of a preset cycling rate, cycling the LED indicator d... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283983 | Computer and vision-based augmented interaction in the use of printed media Media and gesture recognition apparatus and methods are disclosed. A computerized system views a first printed media using an electronic visual sensor. The system retrieves information corresponding to the viewed printed media from a database. Using the electronic v... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283139 | Image processing device for transmitting color with fidelity and product selling method using the same An image processing device (1) provides a client device (3) with a first test pattern image, acquires the results of evaluation concerning distinguishability of the image by human eyes, acquires color expression characteristics of the client device ( | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283142 | Color display having horizontal sub-pixel arrangements and layouts A color display having horizontal sub-pixel arrangements and layouts is disclosed. The display can include a plurality of a sub-pixel group. The sub-pixel group can have a plurality of sub-pixels wherein each sub-pixel has a height along a vertical axis and a width ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283275 | Logo data generating apparatus, logo data generating method, and data storage medium A logo data generating apparatus and method easily generate logo data suitable for storage to and output by a particular target printer without requiring a complicated process defining the image processing and data communication parameters. An control data receiving... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283662 | Protecting colors from clipping Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for protecting colors from being clipped during color adjustment. A first set of colors is identified in a source color space, and a first color mapping is specified to associate colors in the source color ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283663 | Interpolation of edge portions of a digital image A method and apparatus for interpolating color image information are provided. One or more image data values for a portion of a digital image in a vicinity of a target pixel are received and stored in a local array. A processor determines whether there is an edge in... | 10/16/2007 |
