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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184127 | Apparatus for and method of generating graphic data, and information recording medium An apparatus for and method of generating graphic data, and information recording medium storing the same. An apparatus for generating graphic data includes: a line information extractor extracting line information of each line from the graphic data, the graphic dat... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184128 | Data distribution system and method therefor An object of the present invention is to provide a data distribution system which is suitable to distribute data to a mobile terminal device and the like to cause the mobile terminal device and the like to display an image, and a method therefor. In response to a re... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8174540 | Consistency checking of user-settable isolated parameters in a graphical model In one embodiment, a method for checking consistency of user-settable isolated parameters among a first graphical modeling component and a second graphical modeling component in an executable graphical model is provided. The method includes designating that the firs... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174541 | Dividing three-dimensional space into location based virtual packets The invention provides a method and system for three-dimensional virtual world pattern positioning. The method includes creating a three-dimensional pattern for a virtual world environment, sub-dividing the pattern into a plurality of sub-divisions each having a vec... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174539 | Imprint for visualization and manufacturing Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating a design image for manufacturing a designed object. In one aspect, a method includes receiving input specifying a visual design of an object in a first image, generating a second im... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169448 | Mobile terminal and display method thereof A display unit includes a transparent light emitting element and displaying information on both sides thereof; a sensing unit for detecting the direction in which the screen of the display unit faces; and a controller for determining a placed state of the display un... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8159504 | System and method for presenting an avatar A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an avatar engine having a controller to retrieve a user profile, present a user an avatar having characteristics that correlate to the user profile, detect a change in a develop... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8149246 | Digital document editing method, digital document editing program and digital document editing apparatus The invention relates to an editing of a digital document containing an image, a text, a pattern and the like on pages constituting the digital document. In response to an operation for deleting an image positioned in a page, such image is not added to another page ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144169 | Input device for graphics An input device for editing a 3D model displayed in a screen is provided. The input device includes a signal transceiver module and a telescopic sensing component. The signal transceiver module communicates with a graphic system to obtain information of the 3D model... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140581 | Configurable view on data models Data-driven configuration of various views on data models. A framework may be provided that offers one or more parameterized view generation components, each aimed at generating a particular view type in response to configuration data that populates the parameters o... | 03/20/2012 |
| RE43260 | Method for clustering and querying media items The present invention relates to managing media items in data processing terminals. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a method, a device and a computer program product for arranging, viewing and querying media items organized in hierarchical mu... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139084 | Image display device and method of displaying image Under an LCD panel (241) a prism sheet (242) is provided, and a light beam is emitted in a first direction (243) at a timing that a first LED group (247) is turned on, so that an eye (202L) located at this position can view a first... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139083 | Custom image frames A method includes retrieving an image stored on a device, creating a mask in a portion of the image, and creating a custom image frame from the image and the mask. ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139085 | Display data extraction methods, devices and computer systems utilizing the same A device of capturing display data is implemented in an electronic device. A first request for capture of display data associated with the display of the electronic device is received. The display is a composite image generated by a program from one or more raw data... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139082 | Image processing apparatus and its control method, and program When first vector image data is input, whether or not the first vector image data includes a raster image data expression part is determined. The raster image data expression part is converted into second vector image data based on the determination result. Final fo... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134575 | Maintaining graphical presentations based on user customizations A method and system for rendering graphics based on user customizations in a computer graphics application are disclosed. The customizations relate to various properties of one or more graphical elements in the graphic. Such properties include positioning, size, for... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130237 | Resolution independent user interface design Graphical user interface material map objects are specified by a collection of attribute-value pairs, the collection of which comprises a complete description of the material map and may be used by a rendering engine to create a visual representation of the material... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130239 | Update traversal of object trees for multiprocessor systems A system stores a first object tree that describes a graphical scene in memory and creates a second object tree based on the first object tree, where the second object tree is optimized for use by a graphics processing unit (GPU) to render a graphical scene. The sys... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130238 | Methods and files for delivering imagery with embedded data The present invention is directed to the realistic three-dimensional presentation of images in scenes, and is particularly useful for easily illustrating how artwork would appear on a surface in a scene, such as on a billboard. In one embodiment, image files are pro... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8120619 | Character display device and character display method The present invention is intended to speed up rendering that is performed in the course of displaying a document that contains both icons and characters. A character display device that displays a document containing both icons and characters includes: a searching u... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120618 | System and method for visualization of objects using energy minimization of customized potential functions The present invention, an object display system, provides a system and method for positioning objects on a viewing area. One embodiment can be viewed as providing a method comprising the steps of specifying a plurality of objects, specifying a plurality of object pa... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115782 | Assisted adaptive region editing tool Properties of pixels of a digital image are sampled within different subdivisions of an editing tool impression to produce different pixel property distributions. The property distributions from each region may be automatically classified to identify different edit ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106923 | Flexible pixel hardware and method A graphical display station of arbitrary shape such as channel letters or other shaped structures is populated with pixels which are components of flexible pixel strings which can be arranged to fit the arbitrary shape(s). The flexible pixel strings provide for stra... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106922 | Methods and systems for imaging device data display Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for imaging device display standardization. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102405 | TV screen text capture A method of processing television images consistent with certain implementations involves receiving a television signal and capturing a television image; capturing and storing a frame of the television image to a frame memory device; editing the captured image to at... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098263 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus has an operation panel to display an operation panel image used for editing the virtual object, and capable of receiving a user instruction of editing the virtual object, and an operation panel image generation unit to generate the oper... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094168 | Adding secondary content to underutilized space on a display device Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for adding a secondary content to a display with underutilized space are provided. If a primary content, such as a movie, does not fill the entire display then the display includes underutilized space. The dimensions and... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091018 | Method and system for creating and implementing dynamic graphic media A computer-implemented method and system for creating and implementing dynamic clip art images in a software module. Clip art images are typically static in nature and cannot be modified by a user. This limitation with conventional clip art images makes them inflexi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081195 | Method for increasing operation speed in virtual three dimensional (3D) application and operational method thereof The present invention relates to a method for increasing operation speed in virtual three dimensional (3D) application and an operational method thereof. The method includes the steps of: providing a display frame, which includes a plurality of scan lines; dividing ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081196 | Assisted adaptive region editing tool Properties of pixels of a digital image are sampled within different subdivisions of an editing tool impression to produce different pixel property distributions. The property distributions from each region may be automatically classified to identify different edit ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077187 | Image display using a computer system, including, but not limited to, display of a reference image for comparison with a current image in image editing When editing an image (160.2) with a computer system, a command may be issued to display a reference image (160.0 or 160.1) to allow a human user to visually compare the current image (160.2) with the reference image. In response, some em... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073876 | Computer product having distribution map data, distribution map data generating method, distrubution map data generating apparatus and terminal device Distribution map data for distributing a map by communication includes road data representing position information on the roads contained in a plurality of compartments and integrating name data for integrating name information for the same roads contained in the pl... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072468 | Automated image framing Methods and systems for automatically creating a frame image for a content image are presented, and include retaining in electronic storage one or more master frame component images, automatically cropping at least one of the master frame component images to create ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072467 | Request-driven on-demand processing A rendering system is provided. The rendering system includes a rendering component that receives a request to view a data set and provide output to drive a display application. A processing engine generates output data for the rendering component, where the output ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072466 | Medical examination apparatus for acquiring slice images of a subject A medical examination apparatus for acquisition of slice images of an examination subject, such as a magnetic resonance apparatus, has a control device for controlling the image acquisition procedure having at least one associated monitor on which graphic elements s... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8063915 | Method and apparatus for collecting and analyzing surface wound data A 3D surface wound, injury, and personal protective equipment (PPE) data entry system provides an easily usable graphical user interface through which an examiner can objectively record data relating to surface wounds and injuries sustained by a subject human, as we... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059136 | Hierarchichal rapid serial visual presentation for robust target identification A system and method of efficiently and effectively triaging an image that may include one or more target entities are provided. An image that may include one or more target entities is retrieved. The retrieved image is then divided into a plurality of sub-images, an... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059137 | Compositing desktop window manager A method and system for rendering a desktop on a computer using a composited desktop model operating system are disclosed. A composited desktop window manager, upon receiving content information from application programs, draws the window to a buffer memory for futu... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8049767 | Image editing method and apparatus thereof An image editing method includes recording by coding edit information in a predetermined field of an original image frame, and displaying either the original image or an image edited based on the edit information. Accordingly, the edit information is recorded in a b... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8044972 | Synchronized viewing of tomosynthesis and/or mammograms Systems and methods that visualize medical data having image rendering circuits configured to substantially concurrently display a first image view of breast tissue using a stack of primary tomosynthesis image data and a second image view of breast tissue using a re... | 10/25/2011 |
