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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7589746 | Optimized frustum clipping via cached clip vertices Apparatus, systems and methods for optimized frustum clipping via cached clip vertices are disclosed. For example, a method is disclosed, the method including generating a clip vertex for a leading edge of a triangle of a triangle strip or fan, indicating that the l... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7400322 | Viewport-based desktop rendering engine Methods, apparatuses and systems directed, in one implementation, to a system of dynamically spawned, virtual, three-dimensional (3D) viewports which render transparently within the elements of, or on top of, an existing desktop display environment, allowing rendere... | 07/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7362335 | System and method for image-based rendering with object proxies A system and method for rendering with an object proxy. In one embodiment, a method includes forming a set of view textures corresponding to a set of viewing directions; selecting a viewing direction for rendering; selecting at least two view textures from the forme... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7292242 | Clipping with addition of vertices to existing primitives Clipping techniques introduce additional vertices into existing primitives without requiring creation of new primitives. For an input triangle with one vertex on the invisible side of a clipping surface, a quadrangle can be defined. The vertices of the quadrangle ar... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7266241 | Secondary color modification of a digital image An ellipsoid chroma region of a chroma plane may be defined to specify a range of chromas for which a secondary chroma modification is to be applied, and to determine an output chroma for each chroma of the chroma plane based on the ellipsoid chroma region. Further,... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7242414 | Processor having a compare extension of an instruction set architecture A processor having a compare extension of an instruction set architecture which incorporates a set of high performance floating point operations. The instruction set architecture incorporates a variety of data formats including single precision and double precision ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7218330 | Method and system for selecting elements in a graphical user interface A computer-implemented method and system for selecting elements in a graphical user interface (GUI) is presented. The method and system improves upon existing approaches by simplifying an element selection perimeter created in a document within a GUI. Preliminary se... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7218331 | Bounding box in 3D graphics A system and method for processing a graphics primitive for display in a display area defined by a scissoring window. The graphics primitive is part of an object in view space which also includes a near and a far plane and possibly one or more user-defined clipping ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7116338 | Color information processing apparatus and method The analysis and evaluation techniques of a gamut mapping technique, which can reflect the determination result of the quality of gamut mapping in the gamut mapping technique, are demanded. Hence, a color distribution information file and image file are loaded, init... | 10/03/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7084910 | System and method for using multiple images in a digital image capture device A digital image capture and processing system, comprising a lens coupled to a lens control element is disclosed. The image capture system includes an image sensor configured to capture images from the lens, and a memory element and a processor coupled to the lens co... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7053917 | Display device A display device is provided that does not cause the viewer to experience a feeling that something is abnormal, even when the relative positions of the display device and the viewer fluctuate. The display device basically includes a display section, a motion detecti... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7007096 | Efficient splitting and mixing of streaming-data frames for processing through multiple processing modules Streaming data is processed through one or more pipes of connected modules including mixers and/or splitters. The data is carried in composite physically allocated frames having virtual subframes associated with different ones of the splitters, mixers, and other tra... | 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 |
| 6967664 | Method and apparatus for primitive processing in a graphics system A method and apparatus for processing graphics primitives that includes a trivial discard guard band. Such a trivial discard guard band is used for comparison operations with the vertices of graphics primitives to determine whether the graphics primitives can be tri... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6967653 | Apparatus and method for semi-automatic classification of volume data An apparatus for semiautomatic classification of volume data provides the ability to generate visually significant representations of the important regions of the data set. The representations may be indicated by opacity or color changes, for example. The apparatus ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6956584 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image output apparatus and storage medium An image processing method converts line vectors of an input graphic path and an input clip path into run sets in dot coordinates passed by the line vectors, and generates a region run describing a closed region represented by the entire path from the run sets, so a... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6928187 | Secondary color modification of a digital image An ellipsoid chroma region of a chroma plane may be defined to specify a range of chromas for which a secondary chroma modification is to be applied, and to determine an output chroma for each chroma of the chroma plane based on the ellipsoid chroma region. Further,... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6882349 | Efficient image allocation for zone rendering Embodiments of the present invention efficiently support rendering of high resolution images under zone rendering. In particular, a bin array rectangle and binner clipping rectangle for determining primitive-zone intersections. Both of these rectangles are defined b... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6864899 | Efficient clip-list management for a two-dimensional graphics subsystem A graphics sub-system manages a two-dimensional coordinate space which includes a plurality of rectangular regions. The two-dimensional coordinate space is represented by a hierarchical linked list of nodes. Each node represents a rectangular region of two-dimension... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6850242 | Image generating system and program It is an objective to provide a image generating system and program capable of performing an environment mapping which can accurately represent the reflection of light source and the like. An environment texture to be viewed in an upward direction from an object is ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6850249 | Automatic region of interest tracking for a color correction system A system and methods for creating user definable windows for applying image processing, particularly useful in a post-production color correction equipment. The system allows a user of an image processing system such as a scene by scene color corrector to define a c... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6734853 | Method of using view frustrum culling for scaleable collision detection Processing a scene graph includes applying view frustrum culling to sort models of the scene graph into first and second lists of models, the first list comprising models at least one of within a view frustrum and intersecting with the view frustrum, the second list... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6686924 | Method and apparatus for parallel processing of geometric aspects of video graphics data A method and apparatus for parallel processing of geometric aspects of video graphics data include processing that begins by determining whether an object-element is within a clipped volume. The processing continues by determining whether the object-eleme... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6683620 | Relational modeling of trimmed nurbs surfaces A method and apparatus are provided relationally modeling a trimmed NURBS surface. The relational model may be formed of a NURBS surface object, a trimming curve object that depends on the NURBS surface object, and a third object which depends on both the... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6680739 | Systems and methods for compositing graphical data A preferred method for producing a composite digital video data stream, which contains data corresponding to an image to be rendered, includes the steps of: receiving multiple digital video data streams, each of the multiple digital video data streams cor... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6664975 | Cheap well-behaved affine transformation of bounding spheres The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for obtaining a bounding sphere for the ellipsoid that results when an affine transformation matrix transforms a bounding volume. The present invention accomplishes this by using Gershgorin intervals... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6590582 | Clipping processing method A method for determining a position at which a polygon to be clipped is situated with respect to a clipping plane to perform clipping processing, includes the steps of selecting a bounding volume sufficiently enclosing the polygon, and judging a position ... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6380946 | Enhancing hardware clipping for bit-packed fonts The present invention is a method and apparatus for enhancing clipping a bit-packed glyph. A first clip value is determined if it is less than a first maximum value. If the first clip value exceeds the first maximum value, a second clip value and a third ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6366370 | Rendering methods for full parallax autostereoscopic displays A method of rendering image data for full parallax autostereoscopic displays. The method is based on a double frustrum camera technique, where two cameras provide image data from opposing sides of an image plane. The near clipping plane is located on the ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6359629 | Backface primitives culling A method of efficiently removing backfacing primitives from the graphics pipeline such that rendering efficiency is increased. In one embodiment of the present invention, a bounding cone of normal vectors of a primitive is first determined during pre-proc... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6353450 | Placing and monitoring transparent user interface elements in a live video stream as a method for user input Providing input signals to a system having a display, the system being coupled to a source of video data signals, such as a video camera, is accomplished by analyzing the video data signals to detect an object in the scene over or at least partially coinc... | 03/05/2002 |
| 5734808 | Pipeline processing device, clipping processing device, three-dimensional simulator device and pipeline processing method An objective of this invention is to provide a pipeline processing device that enables the implementation of optimized pipeline processing and moreover has a simple configuration and control method, and a clipping processing device that uses this pipeline... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5581796 | Processing method and graphics processor for skip drawing a figure In a case where a graphic image segment of which positional information is defined in a world coordinate system and of which size information is defined in a device coordinate system is developed to be displayed on a multi-window screen, the development p... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5268677 | Reduced viewport for graphics display A reduced viewport feature for a graphics display system allows an operator to observe manipulations on a graphics display of video image planes that are wholly or partially outside a viewing area. A two-dimensional input image plane in the form of a wire... | 12/07/1993 |
| 5016189 | Area filling device An area filling device includes an edge table memory for storing an edge table having data related to the edges, and an address table memory for storing edge table address data for every Y coordinate value. An operation circuit calculates data related to ... | 05/14/1991 |
| 5012433 | Multistage clipping method A method for clipping two and three dimensional graphic primitives for use in a computer graphics workstation. During the first clipping stage, the system removes all graphic primitives which lie outside an arbitrary clipping volume or window that is an e... | 04/30/1991 |
