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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8022968 | Image display and storage apparatus, method and medium An image display and storage device, method, and medium to process an original image and generate a main image so that the original image does not overlap a sub image, and store the original image instead of the main image when the main image and the sub image are d... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7978209 | Image forming apparatus, image forming method and image forming program An image displayer 7 displays image data correlated to a plurality of block regions. An image selector 9 receives a selection of a displayed arbitrary block region and a selection of modifying an image mode of the image data corresponding to the select... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7639268 | Display device displaying first and second windows on a display screen An information processing apparatus for displaying first and second windows on a display screen of a display device includes an input for inputting first image data for displaying a moving image on the first window, and second image data for displaying a second imag... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7576756 | System and method for interaction of graphical objects on a computer controlled system A user interface method and system for performing sensemaking tasks using visual information objects. The present invention provides techniques for the system to perform operations for creating, rearranging visual information objects, reallocating display space and ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7495676 | Process for creation and display of merged digital images A process for the creation of a merged image comprising the steps of preparing at least two base images in digital format, selecting a pattern wherein said pattern comprises a multiplicity of cells, each cell having n regions wherein n is the number of prepared base... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7418111 | Methods and apparatus to process media The presently claimed invention relates generally to digital watermarking, obtaining identifiers from media and/or processing media files. One claim recites a method including: accessing a target website; collecting display or scripting instructions associated with ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7389221 | System and method for interactive translation The present invention provides an interactive system and method for effective and convenient language translation. The system and method provides a translation window that is opened in conjunction with a web page window containing web pages hosted on the internet. T... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7355561 | Systems and methods for providing images Systems and methods for providing images are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of the system for providing images includes a first image display device for displaying a first image at a first image plane and a second image display device for displaying a second ima... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7330196 | Apparatus and method for image processing capable of accelerating image overlay process An image processing apparatus includes an overlay detector and a memory. The image processing apparatus and method sequentially process graphic rendering instructions for image data. The graphic rendering instructions include first and second graphic rendering instr... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7295963 | Adaptive machine translation A computer-implemented method for providing information to an automatic machine translation system to improve translation accuracy is disclosed. The method includes receiving a collection of source text. An attempted translation that corresponds to the collection of... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7287088 | Transmission bandwidth and memory requirements reduction in a portable image capture device by eliminating duplicate image transmissions A system and method for reducing storage and transmission bandwidth requirements of a portable image capture device capable of establishing a communications connection on a network are disclosed. The method includes assigning an image identifier to captured images u... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7272641 | Image information managing system An information managing system for browsing or transferring images between apparatuses is connected to a network. In this system, an information storage apparatus such as an image pickup apparatus, an information managing apparatus such as an image server, and an in... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7268789 | Reflection space image based rendering at an interactive frame rate The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for reflection space image based rendering of an object at an interactive frame rate. A set of source radiance environment maps associated with a set of source viewing vectors are warped t... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265763 | Method and system for image templates A method and system for enabling a user to import a user-defined graphics edit into at least one template, the method including the steps of selecting, by the user, at least one first editable object, editing, by the user, at least part of the at least one first edi... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262772 | Visual content summary Techniques are described for selecting and displaying specific content elements from within content of a media asset, such that the content elements may be displayed within a reserved portion of a user display, thereby providing a visual summary of the media asset c... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7256799 | Image synthesizer, image synthesis method and computer readable recording medium having image synthesis processing program recorded thereon In an image stitcher for arranging a plurality of images to be stitched in m rows and n columns (both m and n are natural numbers) on a monitor screen such that their respective arrangement positions conform to an actual relative positional relationship, to stitch a... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251357 | Method, apparatus and recording medium for setting background image When a photograph album is generated by laying out images, a background image is set in accordance with the images. Image data sets representing the images are input to background setting means and area ratio calculation means calculates a ratio of an area where a c... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7234114 | Extensible object previewer in a shell browser A system and method for extending the functionality of an object previewed in a shell browser to improve the user experience. The shell browser provides an extensibility mechanism so that third party developers can extend the functionality of the default previewer f... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7225407 | Resource browser sessions search A browser sessions search tool allows a user to search through records of previously viewed resource pages, even across multiple browser sessions. Each visit to a resource page results in creation of a visit data structure that references the resource page content. ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7210093 | Method, system, and program for displaying pages downloaded from over a network in an application window Disclosed is a system, method, and program for displaying pages in a viewer program on a computer display monitor. The viewer program displays an application window. The viewer program downloads a first and second pages from one of multiple servers over a network an... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7202839 | Resolution reduction technique for displaying documents on a monitor A method of generating an output image having a lower resolution than that of a source image is provided. A thinned image is generated by discarding outer pixels of the source image. In parallel with generation of the thinned image, an averaged image is generated, s... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7199817 | Methods and systems for networked camera control Methods and systems for providing fluid real-time camera control of at least one camera to at least one network user via a network including the internet. A control pad or area can be provided to camera users via an application or applet that can be calibrated to pr... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7188319 | Displaying graphical information and user selected properties on a computer interface A new way of providing pertinent information about an item (e.g., a text file, a picture file, a music file, video file, or any other similar file) is provided. The invention provides graphical information about the item along with user-selectable properties that ar... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188316 | System and method for viewing and editing multi-value properties In a display of properties (or metadata) for multiple selected files, properties may be aggregated. Visual differentiation may be used to associate displayed aggregated values with one or more selected files to which the values pertain. Multi-value properties may al... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7176908 | Picture display device and picture display method Video signals from a plurality of personal computers are written to a memory that stores video signals for a plurality of display screens through respective buffers. The video signals may be read from the respective buffers and displayed simultaneously on a single m... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7176944 | Opacity based interference texture A method and apparatus for generating a colored or shaded texture for images to be displayed on a display device or printed. The method includes the step of providing a plurality of shape elements, each of which defines a surface. Each of the shape elements also has... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7178110 | File processing apparatus and computer-readable storage medium storing a program for operating a computer as a file processing apparatus The invention provides a file processing apparatus, with which files can be selected easily when subjecting files to a predetermined process. A window W that is displayed during file processing is partitioned into three regions, namely a file display window W1 | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173671 | Selectively overlaying a user interface atop a video signal Overlaying visual interface information atop a video signal without obscuring desired features of the video signal. The video signal may contain one or more pre-selected features, such as text. Two or more display sections equally divide the video signal, and any pr... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167596 | Image processing method for generating three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional screen The image processing device is designed to retrieve a predetermined data section from data composing a first image, to retrieve a coefficient value from a predetermined table using a value of the retrieved data section as an index, and to subject the first image to ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7164490 | Custom cut image products A method for obtaining custom cut images products by an ordinary unskilled user/consumer wherein the consumer at a first location identifies a subject within a digital image for producing a cut image product. A software program automatically differentiates the selec... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161561 | Display system In a display system capable of displaying images fed from a plurality of sensing devices on an indicator, horizontal and vertical synchronizing signals of the individual measuring devices are synchronized with one another and desired image signals are selected for o... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158109 | Active matrix display An active matrix display comprises an active matrix array of pixels divided into first and second sets, the pixels 35 of the first set are refreshed in the conventional active matrix way by a first refreshing arrangement M1, 6, 7. Pixels 36 for ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158150 | Image wipe method and device An image wipe method includes the steps of defining at least a first reference point to divide a screen area into several sub-areas according to the first reference points, selecting at least one sub-area, and performing a first image process on the selected sub-are... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151548 | Information displaying system, information providing apparatus, and information providing method An information displaying system for displaying information corresponding to a geographical location includes a display commanding unit pre-assigned with a unique ID, an information displaying unit for displaying information corresponding to a command received from ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7139970 | Assigning a hot spot in an electronic artwork Apparatus and methods implementing a technique for creating an electronic artwork with a hot area. For a selected layer of the artwork, a non-transparent region is identified and an action is assigned to an area corresponding to the non-transparent region, the actio... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133051 | Full scale video with overlaid graphical user interface and scaled image The present disclosure relates to displaying full scale images with overlaid similar scaled images and a graphical user device in a display of a client device. The client device receives video streams of the full scale images and scaled images. The video streams are... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7084885 | Image processing apparatus and display control method An example image display apparatus includes processing circuitry such as a communication processor and a game processor. The processing circuitry continuously processes a communication-related function and selectively processes a game-related function. When the game... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7068291 | Video display screen segmentation An apparatus for controlling the format of a video display. The apparatus includes a profile module for defining at least one profile. The profile has at least one display characteristic of video information associated with a type of application. The apparatus also ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7064767 | Image solution processing method, processing apparatus, and program The invention establishes a target face to which a texture will be mapped and determines the start point for drawing the texture and the number of drawing iterations. In accordance with the drawing start point and the number of drawing iterations, the texture is map... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7061456 | Image display method and image display apparatus A display method can achieve both a substantially high definition image display and high speed dynamic image display. The image displaying method of an image displaying apparatus having a display portion consisting of a plurality of pixels takes each of a predetermi... | 06/13/2006 |
