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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7679624 | Moving computer displayable content into a preferred user interactive focus area A system for displaying content, such as a computer's displayed desktop, to a user such that remote content may be easily accessed, is presented. An exemplary display system includes a preferred interaction area through which the user interacts with the displayed co... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675528 | Image cropping system and method Electronic document design systems and methods allowing a user engaged in customizing an electronic product to re-crop product images in a manner that is compatible with the product layout. Upon selection of an image area in the product design, the user can choose t... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7656418 | User control of 3d volume plane crop A method for interactive adjustment of a 3D ultrasound image of an object includes acquiring a loop of 3D image data of the object, and providing a 3D image of the object on a display for user viewing. The method also includes activating a crop mode via a user inter... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7616218 | Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives are described. In one embodiment, a clipping module includes a clipping engine and a clipping controller connected to the clipping engine. The clipping controller is configured to determine which edges o... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7551183 | Clipping and scissoring technique A method is described that involves redefining a primitive surface to create a redefined primitive surface. The redefining involves clipping a first edge of the primitive surface to a second edge of a displayable screen area. The first edge of the primitive surface ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7511719 | Method, system, and computer product for performing trapezoidal reduction of polygons and interrupted polygons A method, system, and computer program product for rendering an image to available display area based on parameters of one or more unusable display areas. The method includes determining one or more trapezoids for defining the available display area based on the par... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7505047 | Vehicle periphery viewing apparatus A vehicle periphery viewing apparatus for capturing a vehicle-peripheral image includes: an image capturing device disposed on predetermined position; a display device disposed within the vehicle; and an image processing device performing an image division of the or... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7489321 | Using detail-in-context lenses for accurate digital image cropping and measurement A method for cropping a computer generated original image on a display, comprising the steps of: adjusting a user-selected movable boundary on the original image to define a cropped image within the boundary, the boundary defined by two or more points on the origina... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7466322 | Clipping graphics primitives to the w=0 plane Vertices defining a graphics primitive are converted into homogeneous space and clipped against a single clipping plane, the w=0 plane, to produce a clipped graphics primitive having vertices including w coordinates that are greater than or equal to zero. Rasterizin... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7463271 | Optimized access for drawing operations Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention improve drawing operations for drawing an object that has object information onto a background image, which has background image information, already displayed on a display device. A... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7439988 | Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives with respect to a clipping plane Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives are described. In one embodiment, a clipping module includes a mapping unit and a clipping engine that is connected to the mapping unit. The mapping unit is configured to map a graphics primitive onto a ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7438426 | Projection display apparatus and digital zooming method thereof A projection display apparatus and digital zooming method thereof is disclosed. The projection display apparatus receives a first image and includes a control unit, an image processor, an image scaler, a projection lens and a display unit. The control unit is for ca... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436414 | Method for accelerated determination of occlusion between polygons The invention describes a method and system for use in occlusion culling of polygons in an interactive environment, such as a game. The invention employs a boundary box to simplify the testing of occludee polygons. Occluders and occludees are also transformed into n... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437687 | Cellular telephone set, operation control method thereof and program therefor A cellular telephone set can simplify operation when a picture (picture memorandum) picked-up as memorandum is registered in a memory and reproduced. Upon initial registration of an image to a memory for the picture memorandum, a picture memorandum icon is generated... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432983 | Moving-picture processing method and moving-picture processing apparatus with metadata processing A moving-picture processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire metadata including information about each temporal region in an input moving picture with a plurality of temporal regions, a decision unit configured to determine a cutout regio... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7420572 | Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives with accelerated context switching An apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives are described. In one embodiment, a graphics processing apparatus includes a clipping unit that is configured to issue an initial set of outputs based on execution of a set of clipping operations. The... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418131 | Image-capturing device and method for removing strangers from an image An image-capturing device and method for removing strangers from an image are described. First, a first image is input. Then, a control module determines if an unwanted object processing step is needed, and obtains a result. If the result is no, the first image is d... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414635 | Optimized primitive filler The optimized primitive filler is used in a computer system, such as a computer system that displays graphic images. A first step of the method it is determined if a primitive is totally outside a predetermined screen region or at least partially within the predeter... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7400325 | Culling before setup in viewport and culling unit The VPC unit and setup unit of a graphics processing subsystem perform culling operations. The VPC unit performs culling operations on geometric primitives falling within a specific criteria, such as having a property within of a numerical range limit. This limit re... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7388582 | System and method for graphics culling A method is disclosed for culling an object database in a graphics processing system. In one embodiment, the method comprises encoding per-object parameters and culling parameters. The per-object parameters are encoded in texture format thereby creating at least one... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386862 | Process for allowing Applets to be resized independently from the WEB/HTML page they were created The present invention provides for a method for allowing Applets to be resized independently from the WEB/HTML page they were created. The Applet is made “detachable”, from a user's point of view, from the WEB/HTML page it was initially created. Pushing a “det... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382377 | Render to texture cull Method and apparatus for processing one or more fragment data. In one embodiment, the method includes processing one or more fragment data to generate one or more texture map addresses for one or more texels, determining relevance information that correspond to the ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7362368 | Perfecting the optics within a digital image acquisition device using face detection Within a digital acquisition device, acquisition parameters of a digital image are perfected as part of an image capture process using face detection within said captured image to achieve one or more desired image acquisition parameters. Default values are determine... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362338 | Controllable pixel border for improved viewability of a display device A display device having a display matrix (m+2x by n+2x) including an active, e.g., controllable, pixel border located around the edge locations of a frame buffer matrix for improved character viewability. The border can be several pixels wide, e.g., 1 | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359530 | Object-based raster trapping Trapping graphics during pre-press workflow involves intensive computation. In this invention, the trapping engine uses simple bounding boxes, colors, and temporal order information, to eliminate the possibility of trapping many pairs of objects without ever having ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7343320 | Online digital image-based product ordering system A system is provided that allows a photographer to take images for a customer and provide those images to order servicing equipment with which the images are placed on-line for the customer to view. The customer may place orders for the images and products and servi... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339598 | System and method for automated product design Automated electronic document design systems and methods for combining identified images and layouts into electronic product templates for displaying to a user. A plurality of images and a plurality of layouts are retained. Stored images are identified based on keyw... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339701 | Method for darkness correction of trapped pixels A method for correcting for edge defects caused by print characteristics of a print engine includes printing a set of actual color patches corresponding to a desired set of colors; defining an edge region and a uniform area region in each of the patches; for each co... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330194 | Video object clipping method and apparatus A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining a criteria original image and a criteria reference alpha image from ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7327363 | Image processing apparatus, and computer program When volume data of a three-dimensional object to be processed is read and stored into a predetermined storage, first, a plurality of reference planes are set and a plurality of reference distance maps each indicative of distribution of distances between the three-d... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324072 | Pixel border for improved viewability of a display device A display device having a display matrix including a pixel border of width x and located around the edge locations of the matrix for improved viewability. The pixels of the border are “dummy pixels” each containing a red, a green and a blue subpixel. Each subpix... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324113 | Perspective correction computation optimization A method of optimizing perspective correction computations to be executed in a programmable fragment shader, identifying a sequence of program instructions; determining whether the sequence of program instructions can be optimized based on the status of the bit; sou... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7320104 | Text grid creation tools Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling typesetting and layout editing (2a). Data being typeset or laid out are displayed on a display (3). A first menu (20) having a u... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319784 | Magnetic resonance spectroscopy using a conformal voxel The goal was to automate and optimize the shaping and positioning of a shape-specific/conformal voxel that conforms to any volume of interest, such as a cranial lesion, to allow conformal voxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy (CV-MRS). We achieved this by using a co... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315307 | Methods and systems for merging graphics for display on a computing device Disclosed are methods and systems that allow video applications to merge their outputs for display and to transform the outputs of other applications before display. A graphics arbiter tells applications the estimated time when the next frame will be displayed on a ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315308 | Methods and system for merging graphics for display on a computing device Disclosed are methods and systems that allow video applications to merge their outputs for display and to transform the outputs of other applications before display. A graphics arbiter tells applications the estimated time when the next frame will be displayed on a ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315310 | Clipping device A clipping device for reducing the number of processing cycles, and simplifying the circuit, while increasing the speed of the processing. The clipping device has a clip code generation circuit for generating clip codes corresponding to results of a comparison of ve... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313764 | Method and apparatus to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows Methods and apparatuses to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows. In one aspect of the invention, a method to scroll a buffered window on a data processing system includes: determining a second region of a second pixel image of a window in a frame buffer, which ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312806 | Dynamic width adjustment for detail-in-context lenses A method for reducing occlusion in a presentation of a region-of-interest of an original image, the presentation generated by distorting the original image to produce a lens having a focal region for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310103 | Pipelined 2D viewport clip circuit A system and method for performing viewport clipping for multiple viewports using a pipeline. The pixel address coordinates are compared against boundaries of a first viewport window. The results of this comparison, along with the pixel address coordinates, are regi... | 12/18/2007 |