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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5384907 | Method for carrying out scissoring -processing of stroke letters in a screen display The desired size of a series of letters is found by cutting out only a portion within a frame surrounded by a predetermined frame line among image information formed by a series of stroke letters. A band frame is created having a predetermined width on bo... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5371513 | Apparatus for generating programmable interrupts to indicate display positions in a computer A circuit for generating programmable interrupt signals including apparatus for counting the individual rows of signals being displayed by an output display, apparatus for selectively storing a signal indicating a particular row, apparatus for determining... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5369741 | Method for pre-clipping a line lying within a clipping rectangular region which is a subset of a region of a display screen A method for drawing lines on a graphics device in such manner in that only those points lying inside a specified rectangular area of the device are drawn. Predetermined digital outcodes are generated for defining the endpoints of the lines and a decision... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5341463 | Selective polygon map display method Signal transformations of inputted data brought about by 58 new subroutines in combination with other subroutines to display world maps or other display items with the unique capability of performing the following functions in complete generality. (1) Arb... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5303321 | Integrated hardware generator for area fill, conics and vectors in a graphics rendering processor An integrated hardware generator for generating digital signals representative of vectors, polygons and conics primitives and area fills therefor. The primitive signals are used in the formation of a final digital output signal read into a bit map memory ... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5297251 | Method and apparatus for pixel clipping source and destination windows in a graphics system A method of moving blocks of pixel data, including window-identifying data, from a source area to a destination area within a frame buffer in a computer graphics system comprises the steps of: reading a block of pixel data from the source area into a pixe... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5276437 | Multi-media window manager An apparatus and method for displaying non-obscured pixels in a multiple-media motion video environment (dynamic image management) possessing overlaid windows. In an encoding process, only boundary values and identification values corresponding to each wi... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5276798 | Multifunction high performance graphics rendering processor Disclosed is a multifunction cogenerator or graphics processor for use in a graphics rendering processor. The graphics processor comprises dual graphics engines operating in parallel, with one of the engines having higher operating priority than the other... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5241656 | Depth buffer clipping for window management In a computer system with a screen display on which is formed a plurality of at least partially overlapping windows associated with different applications, a depth buffer is added to the display adapter for providing with different applications, a depth b... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5200740 | Dropout-free center point fill method for displaying characters Method for displaying characters with improved legibility at relatively low resolution by modifying the center point fill method and displaying additional pixels as needed to maintain connectivity and avoid dropout problems. Additional pixels are turned o... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5193148 | Method and apparatus for pixel clipping source and destination windows in a graphics system A method of moving blocks of pixel data, including window-identifying data, from a source area to a destination area within a frame buffer in a computer graphics system comprises the steps of: reading a block of pixel data from the source area into a pixe... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5185597 | Sprite cursor with edge extension and clipping A circuit for generating an N by M pixel sprite cursor having edge extension features which are clipped to only appear in preselected windows on a video display. The circuit provides edge extension by extending the pattern appearing in the pixels located ... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5185598 | Character graphic information display device A character graphic information display device is adapted to decode into the character graphic picture images with the standard density the high density of character graphic information which has been transmitted so as to display it on the display portion... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5167018 | Polygon-filling apparatus Polygon filling apparatus in which data are obtained through registers from memory files for holding accumulated addition values and incremental values, such data are added in a single addition circuit, the accumulated addition values in one of said regis... | 11/24/1992 |
| 5157764 | Apparatus and method for using a test window in a graphics subsystem which incorporates hardware to perform clipping of images An apparatus and method for using a test window to improve the efficiency of clipping and inter-coordinate images which are to be displayed by a graphic display subsystem. A test window is defined which surrounds a window (the clip window) within which it... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5125074 | Process for eliminating hidden faces for synthesis of a three-dimensional wire image A process for eliminating hidden faces for synthesis of a three-dimensional wire image from the set of edges of a wire image, the edges being provided with priority parameters making it possible to restore the appearances of a third-dimension. The process... | 06/23/1992 |
| 5119080 | Video-data processor A video-data processor is disclosed in which a video data produced from the laser disk or the like is processed in four stages of video memory. The video data is first A/D converted and written into a first video memory. Then, the video data in the first ... | 06/02/1992 |
| 5105472 | Graphic reproduction method A graphic reproduction method includes a first step for scanning a contour of a predetermined graphic that has been read from a storage source that stores contours of graphics, to detect a black change dot PB and a white change dot PW | 04/14/1992 |
| 5008853 | Representation of collaborative multi-user activities relative to shared structured data objects in a networked workstation environment A multi-user collaborative system in which the contents as well as the current status of other user activity of a shared structured data object representing one or more related structured data objects in the form of data entries can be concurrently access... | 04/16/1991 |
| 5003497 | Method for three-dimensional clip checking for computer graphics A method for clip checking three dimensional images for display on a computer display system. The display system includes a computer having a central processing unit(CPU) coupled to a memory and a cathode ray tube (CRT) display. The method of the present ... | 03/26/1991 |
| 5003496 | Page memory control in a raster image processor A raster image processor for an all points addressable marking engine includes a page memory having a data input and a write enable input. Halftone tints are applied to bit maps of objects stored in the page memory by applying a tint bit pattern to the da... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4999789 | Method and apparatus for trimming B-spline descriptions of patches in a high performance three dimensional graphics system A graphics accelerator responds to commands from a computer in a graphic system by storing the definitions of nonuniform rational B-spline patches and their associated trimming curves. The graphics accelerator then produces device coordinates for trimmed ... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4941111 | Video picking and clipping method and apparatus The picking method and apparatus comprise: A CPU and a direct memory access (DMA) circuit which is used with a graphics microprocessor (GμP) for virtually redrawing a display list from a system memory of objects in a bit map. A starting address and a num... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4933877 | Bit map image processing apparatus having hardware window function A bit map image processing apparatus includes a window detector for detecting a window position on a screen and a frame memory for storing image data. The frame memory has p 2-port memories each having an l bits×m (column)×n (row) memory area. Each row ... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4885703 | 3-D graphics display system using triangle processor pipeline A graphic processing system for representing three-dimensional objects on a monitor which uses a pipeline of polygon processors coupled in series. The three-dimensional objects are converted into a group of two-dimensional polygons. These polygons are the... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4823282 | Graphic display apparatus having boundary detection target region designating circuit A boundary detection target region designating circuit includes a maximum value register in which a predetermined minimum value is initially set, and a minimum value register in which a predetermined maximum value is initially set. The content of the maxi... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4819192 | Method of displaying image A method of displaying graphic image surface information data of an object lying within a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional display screen when seen from a predetermined observing point is disclosed. A patch of the surface of an object is separ... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4757461 | Process for graphically representing a structure A process for graphically representing a simulated workpiece as processed by a numerically-controlled machine tool. Stored data defining the workpiece and the tool as well as program data defining relative movement therebetween are used to generate polygo... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4754488 | Method for ascertaining and filling of bounded areas of a colored raster display A method for use in a bit-mapped presentation display system for ascertaining the boundary of an arbitrarily-shaped closed polygon filled with a first color-coded pel pattern and then filling the ascertained polygon with a second color-coded pel pattern. ... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4698779 | Graphic display with determination of coincidence of subject and clip areas A method of determining the coincidence of a subject area and a clip area in a graphic display system, comprising creating three parts list, one for parts of the subject area that are outside the clip area, a second for parts of the clip area that are ins... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4622545 | Method and apparatus for image compression and manipulation Apparatus and methods are disclosed which are most advantageously used in conjunction with a digital computer to provide improved graphics capability. These techniques permit the representation and manipulation of any arbitrarily shaped image in terms of ... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4616217 | Visual simulators, computer generated imagery, and display systems A display system having a screen and two spaced projectors arranged to illuminate respective parts of the screen. The screen includes a diffusor which serves to scatter light incident on the screen at a particular point in a manner such that more of the l... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4611268 | Method and electronic apparatus for optimal arrangement of shapes having at least two dimensions The present invention relates to a method and an electronic apparatus for optimal arrangement of shapes having at least two dimensions, whereby optimization can be performed quickly while satisfying several requirements at the same time. According to the ... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4570233 | Modular digital image generator A digital image generator (DIG) that realizes a modular architecture. The DIG employes a geometric processor that processes a plurality of prioritized faces which comprise an image to be displayed. The faces, in turn, comprise a plurality of picture eleme... | 02/11/1986 |
| 4545070 | Pattern discriminator A pattern discriminator receives scanning data obtained by raster scanning objects within predefined window regions with a photoelectric converter, converts the scanned data into pixel binary data by using a threshold value dependent upon the scanning pos... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4208719 | Edge smoothing for real-time simulation of a polygon face object system as viewed by a moving observer The visual system within an aircraft flight simulation system receives flight data and terrain data which is formated into a buffer memory. The image data is forwarded to an image processor which translates the image data into face vertex vectors Vf, defi... | 06/17/1980 |
