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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7117440 | Method and apparatus for providing a menu structure for an interactive information distribution system A method and apparatus for providing an improved interactive menu structure for an on-screen program guide within an interactive information distribution system. The menu structure is generated in service provider equipment and delivered to subscriber equipment as a... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7113208 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and recording medium An image capture apparatus having an image capture unit, a memory, an image compression unit, an image display unit, a control unit, a refresh control unit, and an arbitration unit adapted to assign a higher priority to a process of providing image data from the ima... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7110007 | Image processing apparatus and method This invention relates to an image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program for combining an original image and another image. In this invention, an original image is segmented into a plurality of segmented images, and a segmented image to be combi... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106324 | Image generating system and program An image generating system and a program enabling scissoring of a polygon in a three-dimensional stage to prevent display failure of a polygon on a screen end or at a short distance from the viewpoint with a reduced computation load. The system performs scissoring p... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7098924 | Method and programmable device for triangle interpolation in homogeneous space A method and apparatus for obtaining an attribute in homogenous space. After obtaining the vertices of a triangle, the world space coordinates and the attribute of each vertex are transformed to homogeneous coordinates and an attribute in viewer space. Then a set of... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7091974 | Method for selecting and displaying a subject or interest in a still digital image The present invention is in the field of digital imaging. It relates to a method for determining the coordinates of a subject of interest in a digital image, so as to be able to then display this subject of interest on the screen of a terminal with low display capac... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7084886 | 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... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7080096 | Housing space-related commodity sale assisting system, housing space-related commodity sale assisting method, program for assisting housing space-related commodity sale, and computer-readable recorded medium on which program for assisting housing space-related commodity sale is recorded The inventive system includes a database for storing housing display data including layout information of a housing such as a real estate object, an interior display data including information regarding interior of the housing, and furniture display data including c... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075555 | Method and apparatus for using a color table scheme for displaying information on either color or monochrome display A method and system of determining the screen capability and rendering the appropriate display attribute is herein described. The present invention performs this task by using a color table, which contains a list of object types and a corresponding list of display a... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7075557 | Method of and apparatus for handling high bandwidth on-screen-display graphics data over a distributed IEEE 1394 network utilizing an isochronous data transmission format On-screen-display graphics data is transmitted from a source device to a display device over an IEEE 1394-1995 serial bus network utilizing an isochronous data format. The on-screen-display graphics data is generated by the source device and transmitted to a display... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071952 | Method for inserting objects into a working area in a computer application The present invention relates to a method for facilitating the insertion of an object in a working area on a computer display, and is implemented in a computer application software. The method comprises the steps of indicating at least one subarea of the working are... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7064752 | Multi-function unit of a graphics system for updating a hierarchical Z buffer A multi-function unit for occlusion testing primitives being processed in a graphics system and for updating a Z pyramid data structure used for occlusion testing. The Z pyramid data structure is updated on the fly, i.e., as primitives are being occlusion tested. Th... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061507 | Antialiasing method and apparatus for video applications Antialiasing method and apparatus for video applications. A method for antialiasing a video graphic. First, the processor renders the pixels and, during the step of rendering, determines if an edge pixel of a polygon is being rendered. If so, a sample point is defin... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062077 | Scanner densitometer and data evaluation method Optically scanned data forms an image stored in a computer memory represented as an array having at least two dimensions. The stored image is subjected to virtual scanning. Thus a subset of the array is defined as a portion of the image having first and second dimen... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057667 | Image display control system and method allowing connection of various kinds of image displays to one supply source This invention discloses an arrangement allowing connection of various kinds of image displays to one supply source in an image display control system having a supply source for transmitting a signal including at least a video signal, and an image display for receiv... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053914 | Graphic editing device, graphic editing method and storage medium for storing a program A flowchart containing objects A–C is displayed on a computer screen. Object B is subordinate to object A and object C is subordinate to object B. If a user selects object B, object B is deleted, and simultaneously objects A and C are connected. In this case, obje... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050070 | Image editing method and image editing apparatus An image editing method comprises storing original images, storing alpha masks corresponding to the original images, respectively, superposing in turn object images that are extracted from the original images by the alpha masks, to display a composite image on a fir... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050069 | Fast clear technique for display regions having subregions A technique for performing clear operations in a region having a subregion. Responsive to a first clear command: perform an initialization in which stale information is eliminated from pixels outside the subregion. Responsive to subsequent clear commands: update a c... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7049957 | Local area positioning system A positioning system includes a command signal generator, a subject module, a plurality of sensor modules, and a plurality of counters. A comparator compares the plurality of increments and generate a plurality of counter differential values; and a correlator correl... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046403 | Image edge color computation Methods and apparatus implementing techniques for identifying, in a device space, an effective centerscan object color along an edge between an overscan object and a centerscan object, the overscan object having a higher paint order than the centerscan object. The e... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046250 | Caching fonts for improved bandwidth of transmitted text Caching fonts on a display computer may be performed in order to reduce network bandwidth utilization and/or to improve CPU usage. Text commands may be recorded when they are executed to create a portion of a graphics image. These text commands may be used to update... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042469 | Multiple views for a measurement system diagram A system and method for displaying multiple views of a diagram of a measurement system. A first view of the diagram of the measurement system may be displayed at a first scale. The first view may illustrate a first portion, but not all, of the diagram. A second view... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042467 | Compositing using multiple backdrops Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for compositing a digital image. The invention performs the steps of providing a current accumulation image; identifying as the current element of the digital image to be processed a... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042466 | Efficient clip-testing in graphics acceleration A method and apparatus for performing fast clip-testing operations in a general purpose processor are provided. This is accomplished by executing a single instruction for comparing a first value x to a second value y and, as a result of the comparison, determining w... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7034848 | System and method for automatically cropping graphical images An image cropping system utilizes memory, an object detector, and an image cropper. A set of digital data that defines a graphical image is stored in the memory. The object detector analyzes the set of digital data and automatically identifies a portion of the digit... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031547 | User definable image reference points A method for image processing of a plurality of digital images comprising the steps of determining one or more sets of pixel characteristics, each set having at least one characteristic that is location independent; determining for each pixel characteristic set, an ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7020843 | Method and system for implementing a browser object container A method and system for implementing a browser object container is disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, a method for implementing a browser object container comprises the steps of identifying content data for inclusion in a browser object container; defining one ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020493 | Portable communication terminal with multiple displays A cellular phone has a black-and-white LCD that displays characters and communication information and a color LCD that displays an image. The image and the characters are displayed on the separate LCDs. Thus, the characters are not superimposed on the image, and the... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7012617 | Method for representing a digital color image using a set of palette colors based on detected important colors Disclosed is a method for converting an input digital color image having a set of possible input colors to an output digital color image having a set of palette colors, the number of palette colors being less than the number of possible input colors, wherein the set... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012614 | Texture roaming via dimension elevation The present invention provides texture roaming via dimension elevation. A degree elevated texture is used to contain level of detail (LOD) levels (or tiles) of a clip-map across a degree elevated coordinate space. For example, a three-dimensional (3D) texture is use... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7012612 | Context dependent image caching A mechanism is provided that identifies certain classes of images that are likely to be re-used, and utilizes this information to manage a cache better. This may include flushing certain classes of images that are less likely to be re-used before flushing the classe... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7009624 | Shape processor The shape processor is a rendering module that may be used to stream graphical objects having a predefined format into a frame buffer or a physical display. Documents to be rendered by the shape processor may be decomposed into primitive graphical objects and passed... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7009579 | Transmitting apparatus and method, receiving apparatus and method, transmitting and receiving apparatus and method, record medium and signal On the transmission side, a background picture and objects #1 to #3 are transmitted at a transmission rate R/4 each. On the reception side, a picture composed of the objects #1 to #3 and the background picture is displayed with a particul... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006093 | Method and system for processing a three-dimensional shape data The steps of obtaining three-dimensional shape data representing a three-dimensional shape model, designating a portion required to be corrected of the three-dimensional shape model, displaying a surface to be joined to the designated portion, modifying a shape of t... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006091 | Method and system for optimizing the display of a subject of interest in a digital image The present invention is in the field of digital imaging. It relates to a method and a system for selecting a subject of interest in a digital image, so as to be able to then display this subject of interest on the screen of a terminal with low display capacity. The... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002600 | Image cut-away/display system An image cut-away/display system is disclosed. Images are taken in continuous view areas by several cameras, etc. The images are combined for forming a single wide-area view image. View-point data is generated for each of users. Images are cut away for each user fro... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002601 | Method and apparatus for rendering a quadrangle primitive A method and apparatus thereof for generating a computer graphics image using quadrangle-shaped primitives formed by combining connected triangle-shaped primitives. In a computer graphics rendering process, a first triangle-shaped primitive and a second triangle-sha... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002587 | Semiconductor device, image data processing apparatus and method A semiconductor device and an image data processing apparatus are capable of easily realizing address control, simplifying a circuit for address control, and easily realizing access to image data while reducing the volumes of pieces of image data of different resolu... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999103 | 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 ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995762 | Measurement of dimensions of solid objects from two-dimensional image(s) The present invention facilitates solid object reconstruction from a two-dimensional image. If an object is of known and regular shape, information about the object can be extracted from at least one view by utilizing appropriate constraints and measuring a distance... | 02/07/2006 |
