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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8139088 | Method for generating a digital map A method for generating a digital map that can be stored on an electronic storage medium and in which a geographic area is described by a multitude of data sets includes the following steps: a) loading a database, in which the geog... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8059139 | Display controller, display control method, display control program, and mobile terminal device A display controller includes a character display unit for displaying character information on a display unit; a keyword detecting unit for detecting a predetermined keyword from the character information displayed by the character display unit; an image information... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059138 | Image processing and arranging system, image processing and arranging method, and computer readable medium for image processing and arranging An image processing system includes: a display that displays a still image and a moving image to move over the still image; a snapshot-image producing unit that produces the snapshot image of the moving image; and an arranging unit that arranges the snapshot image o... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7834895 | Storage medium storing game program, and game device Trace shape information, representing the shape of a trace along which an object has moved across a game field in a virtual game world is updated based on the change in the position where the object is located in the virtual game world. A ground texture is produced ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7719547 | Video and graphics system with square graphics pixels A video and graphics system provides square graphics pixels to blend images having 640×480 pixels, such as graphics images provided by some set top boxes and intended to be displayed at a 12.27 MHz display sample rate, with images having 704×480 pixels, such as IT... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7659914 | Generation of an image from text This invention consists of processes that cause text that is placed on a surface to be selectively scaled, thickened or thinned to achieve the overall appearance of lightness or darkness, thereby forming the approximation of an image. A target image can be used wher... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7554563 | Video display control apparatus and video display control method Provided are a video display control apparatus and a video display control method. A video display control apparatus, including a data storage storing graphic/control integrated data including control information used to display graphic data to be combined with vide... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7495677 | Controller driver and display panel driving method A controller driver includes a driving process circuit configured to receive background bit map data of a background image and font data for a character image, and a font drawing circuit configured to generate pixel data of the character image from the font data. Th... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7408551 | Performance-based representation for support of multiple decisions A computer-implemented decision support system provides a performance-based representation using multi-dimensional clipping and transformation algorithms. Three types of supporting information are presented to the decision maker: a function matrix that describes the... | 08/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7342581 | Method and apparatus for displaying 3-D state indicators A method for presenting a user selected status of an object in a three dimensional graphic display is disclosed. The method includes the step of receiving a request to select a property of an object for display. The method further includes the step of displaying at ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336287 | Video and graphics system with square graphics pixels A video and graphics system provides square graphics pixels to blend images having 640×480 pixels, such as graphics images provided by some set top boxes and intended to be displayed at a 12.27 MHz display sample rate, with images having 704×480 pixels, such as IT... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330100 | Mobile device and related method for displaying text message with background images A wireless communications device includes a communication circuit for receiving a message signal having a text message via radio transmission; a storage device having a plurality of image data stored therein; a selecting module for selecting an image datum from the ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7319470 | Content delivery system, content server, and content delivery method To provide a contents distribution system, a contents server and a contents distribution method that do not need a layout operation at the time of distribution of contents and that enable a check of the content of image data that is hard to browse. When distribution... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7295249 | Digital television display control apparatus and method Apparatus for controlling a digital television display, the apparatus comprising a main processor 4, a main memory 5 coupled to said main processor 4 via address and data busses, the main memory 5 being arranged to store at least temporar... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293236 | System and method for controlling devices in home network environment A method and system for displaying status information about each of a plurality of devices and transmitting control information in a home network environment are provided. Includes (a) running an application program for providing a user interface; (b) the control de... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289235 | Information processing device, information processing system, method for controlling information processing device, storage medium and control program In order to perform optimal character registration and a printing process depending on a language, in an information processing device connected to a printer having a first registration area and a second registration area as font registration areas, registration amo... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7271814 | Systems and methods for generating visual representations of graphical data and digital document processing A method of blending a plurality of mutually overlapping graphical objects in a digital document processing system. The graphical objects are arranged in an ordered stack that includes at least one static object and at least one animated object. Each object has at l... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7269300 | Sharpening a digital image in accordance with magnification values A method of processing a digital image having pixels to improve the sharpness of a print generated from the digital image including determining a magnification value representing the magnification of a pixel of the digital image on the print based on the number of i... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263228 | Apparatus and method for detecting a pattern A method for detecting a specific pattern contained in an image. The pattern-detection method has steps of binarizing the input image data to obtain binary image data, recognizing a partial image that is contained in the binary image data, is part of the specific pa... | 08/28/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7233268 | Multi-stage sample rate converter Architectures of multi-stage sample rate converters are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a received signal with a higher sampling rate is converted to a lower sampling rate. To prevent aliasing in the resultant signal, an anti-aliasing fi... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7230633 | Method and apparatus for image blending Methods and apparatuses for blending two images using vector table look up operations. In one aspect of the invention, a method to blend two images includes: loading a vector of keys into a vector register; converting the vector of keys into a first vector of blendi... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7218327 | Font memory for a display A font memory for a display includes a ROM with a storage region divided into a program storing region and a font data storing region, divided into a mono-font data storing region and a color font data storing region, and designed to map and store data in three segm... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7210996 | Questionnaire method of making topic-specific word puzzle documents A questionnaire about a predefined topic is presented to the user of a computer, either via software or over a network. The questionnaire includes suggestions for clues or words of a word puzzle, such as a crossword puzzle or word search puzzle. The user need only a... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212209 | System and method of representing personal profile in symmetrical graphical form A computer system generates a symmetrical graphical image representative of a personal profile of a subject. Personal attributes of the subject are acquired through an assessment tool. The personal attributes are acquired through website and stored on a computer sys... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7199805 | Method and apparatus for titling Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for presenting computer-generated characters. The method defines several frames for a character and sequentially presents the frames. Each frame depicts a particular representation of the character. Also, at least t... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196700 | Controlling display An energy-conserving mobile station and a means for reducing the energy consumption of a mobile station and to reduce burn-in on the display element, where a part of the liquid crystal display element (LCD) of a mobile station is switched off, when the whole display... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193629 | Display apparatus A communication line is connected between a client terminal apparatus 2 and a game server apparatus 3 via a network 1, and an Internet game system, which runs a pre-determined network game in a virtual space provided by the game server apparatus... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194032 | Circuit and method for modifying a region of an encoded image A video processing circuit includes a processor that receives an encoded image having first and second regions, decodes the first region of the image, modifies the decoded first region, and re-encodes the modified first region. Such a circuit allows one to modify a ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7193635 | Portable terminal, overlay output method, and program therefor A portable terminal allows the user to flexibly and readily change an overlay output distribution for reproduced data in accordance with the user's taste and can automatically control the overlay output distribution in accordance with a surrounding environment. A se... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7185021 | Navigation device for displaying dated map data There is disclosed a navigation device designed to display emphasis display data edited by an emphasis display data editing part and normal display data edited by a normal display data editing part in a superposing manner. Thus, a clear visible map can be displayed.... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184062 | Statistically-based image blending methods and systems for pasting multiple digital sub-images together Statistically-based image blending methods and systems for pasting a plurality of digital sub-images together into a single final pasted image are described herein. One embodiment comprises methods for blending a plurality of digital sub-images together into a singl... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7179171 | Fish breeding toy for cellular telephones A cellular telephone breeding toy includes a memory storing genetic traits of corresponding breedable virtual fish. The memory also stores sets of image templates, there being at least one genetic trait associated with each image template. A keypad is used to select... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7176929 | Low cost animated sequence function for low cost OSD devices The present invention provides a low cost animation sequence function for OSDs. An animation sequence is produced by changing the attributes associated with a character within the OSD rather than by substituting the character itself. A character may have several dif... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171389 | Identification, storage and display of land data on a website Disclosed is a land website that provides a personalized database on which data can be stored, retrieved, customized and communicated (e.g., by e-mail) relating to a particular piece of property. The database can be accessible via a password and a security code over... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7164431 | System and method for mixing graphics and text in an on-screen display application The invention provides a system and method for mixing graphics and text in an on-screen display application. The system includes font and character memories. The font memory stores bitmaps associated with characters to be displayed on a display device. The character... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7161695 | Image information distributing system In an image processing system, a server stores first image information in a compressed manner therein and sends second image information that represents the same element as that of the first image information with information content smaller than that of the first i... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7162531 | Manipulating a compressed video stream A computer may be remotely accessed. At a first location, display commands are generated. The display commands are converted into a compressed video data stream. Each display element (50) is checked if it is encoded (52). If an object is encoded, it is... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158139 | Simple on screen display system using mapped ROM generated characters The present invention provides a low cost OSD system with minimal ROM requirements, minimal computing power required from the microcontroller, and minimal I/O port requirements. The OSD system creates a fixed frame around a small set of programmable characters. The ... | 01/02/2007 |
