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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8018472 | Blending multiple display layers Image processing techniques are described that reduce the amount of bandwidth required to read an image from memory for display. According to the techniques, a processor stores low change rate display layers in a memory such that a processor can read the display lay... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7394462 | Superimposing apparatus and method for broadcasting three-dimensional computer graphics image A superimposing apparatus and method for broadcasting a 3DCG image can calculate and superimpose additional information such as characters and figures expressed by a 3DCG image on a TV frame in real time by combining a general three-dimensional graphics accelerator ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7336286 | Method of and an apparatus for processing images In an image processing apparatus to conduct an on-screen display operation, the bus band of an image memory is minimized. The apparatus includes an image memory including a first memory area to store a first image data group of a first image for a background and a s... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7304652 | System and method for providing graphics using graphical engine Systems and methods that provide graphics using a graphical engine are provided. In one example, a system may provide layered graphics in a video environment. The system may include a bus, a graphical engine and a graphical pipeline. The graphical engine may be coup... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7286143 | Interactive viewpoint video employing viewpoints forming an array A system and process for generating, and then rendering and displaying, an interactive viewpoint video in which a user can watch a dynamic scene while manipulating (freezing, slowing down, or reversing) time and changing the viewpoint at will. In general, the intera... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283299 | Magnifying observation apparatus, method for observing magnified image, and computer-readable medium In a magnifying observation apparatus, simple observation conditions are set for simply acquiring a plurality of observation images. A plurality of simple observation images are acquired per the plurality of simple observation conditions set, and displayed on a simp... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281021 | Method, apparatus, and computer program for generating albums Correlation between images and photography locations thereof is facilitated when generating an album of images photographed during a trip. Map data sets are stored in a storage means of an album generation support server. A user accesses the album generation support... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277571 | Effective image processing, apparatus and method in virtual three-dimensional space It is an object of the present invention to make it possible to apply an effect, which does not cause deficiency in any direction of 360 degrees within a virtual three-dimensional space, around an object. An image processing method which generates an image obtained ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7272497 | Vehicle navigation system with multi-use display A vehicle navigation system (e.g., GPS) with multi-use display generator that provides for the switching of a displayed image from a navigational based image to a non-navigational image such as a favorite photo. This versatility allows for the user of a vehicle navi... | 09/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7245306 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, storage medium and program An image processing parameter is determined by moving an image displayed on a map representing a color space to an arbitrary position on the map, and an image process corresponding to the arbitrary position is performed on the image at the position after the movemen... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7197703 | System and methodology for the storage and manipulation of documents A document imaging platform system and methodology for capturing, transmitting, storing, retrieving and displaying documents in a shared-system environment using the Internet or other network is disclosed. Through utilization of thumbnail images along with full imag... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7187781 | Information processing device and method for processing picture data and digital watermark information A device and method for embedding plural kinds of additional information or multiple bits of additional information into one picture is provided. A region information generating step generates region information to specify at least two regions in the real picture sp... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7170935 | Image processing apparatus and method, and computer-readable memory Frames constituting an input moving picture are extracted by a frame extraction unit, the extracted frames are compared and scene changes in the moving picture are discriminated by a scene-change discrimination unit. Scene-change information relating to specific sce... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7158151 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program storage medium and program An information processing apparatus and method are provided by which the user not only can merely see an album display but also can enjoy the album display satisfactorily as a memory. Image data are stored, and time information and position information are recorded ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155679 | Digital media frame A method and a device for displaying images on a digital media frame is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a memory, a processing unit, a display, an interface circuit, and a display circuit. The interface circuit has at least one receiving port capab... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7154487 | Power saving palette look-up table for graphics controller A system for generating compensation pixel data for pixel data having adjacent values. The compensation pixel data is the pixel data adjusted by a value in order to perform an effect with the pixel data. The system has a comparator for determining whether the pixel ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7143351 | Image display device and displaying method An image display device for playing-back and displaying binary image data after decoding the above by the frame, comprises an image judging unit for judging the current frame to be a moving image or a static image, based on the time interval between the frames which... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7116325 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program storage medium and program An information processing apparatus and method are provided by which the user not only can merely see an album display but also can enjoy the album display satisfactorily as a memory. Image data are stored, and time information and position information are recorded ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7096211 | Apparatus and method for image/position display An information processing apparatus and an information processing method as well as a program storage medium by which a large amount of image data is managed readily and displayed plainly are disclosed. A film window and a map window are displayed on a display scree... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7088389 | System for displaying information in specific region According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system for displaying information in a specific region includes a capturing unit for capturing a desired subject, an image capturing unit for capturing an image of the subject, a position and attitude calculatin... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7061509 | Method and apparatus for keying of secondary video into primary video Apparatus for inserting an externally supplied video image into a computer graphics image. A TV card (131), responsive to synchronization signals, is connected to a video source to receive and convert an input video stream and also connected to provide a scal... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7046285 | Digital photographing apparatus having position information capability A digital photographing apparatus, portably structured, for recording a photographed digital picture signal to a recording medium and reproducing a digital picture signal from the recording medium The apparatus includes a recording means for recording the digital pi... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7012623 | Image processing method and apparatus An image as a basis of a mosaic image is segmented into M×N areas by the process shown in FIG. 4 (S300), and the image characteristics of the segmented areas (S301), and those of source images (S305) are obtained. When the source image i... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7002625 | Image pickup apparatus for recording a photographed image in a directory An image pickup apparatus, which is a device for recording an image file on a recording medium according to a file system having a plurality of directories including attributes associated with a photographing position of image data and a photographer, detects the ph... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6995792 | Camera with positioning capability A positioning operation is performed to acquire a positioning result immediately before or immediately after a photographing instruction is given. GPS positioning is performed in response to a positioning start instruction (half depression of the shutter), after whi... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6982727 | System and method for providing graphics using graphical engine Systems and methods that provide graphics using a graphical engine are provided. In one example, a system may provide layered graphics in a video environment. The system may include a bus, a graphical engine and a graphical pipeline. The graphical engine may be coup... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6980217 | Integration of video processing into a block move engine An apparatus comprising a data modification circuit and a composite circuit. The data modification circuit may be configured to generate a first output data stream in response to a first one or more of the data streams. The composite circuit may be configured to gen... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6967666 | Composite picture generating method A composite picture generating method is provided which superimposes an arbitrary image with a natural motion over a moving picture and allows the user to easily specify the position on the moving picture of the image to be superimposed. A moving picture over which ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6907569 | “Show me” user interface command with scroll tracking Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for displaying a document on a display device. Methods include receiving a user input selecting a location in a document displayed in a display pane and requesting a show-me operation, and, in response to t... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6897880 | User interface for generating parameter values in media presentations based on selected presentation instances A system providing a user interface to allow a user to easily modify parameters of media presentations such as images and audio. The user selects first and second reference instances, such as images. The images are described by parameters and parameter values. Diffe... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6882350 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program storage medium and program An information processing apparatus and method by which the user can see an album display and can enjoy the album display as a memory. Image data, time information and position information are recorded. Thumbnail icons representative of the image data are displayed ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6831661 | Projection display apparatus, display method for same and image display apparatus The present invention provides a technology that enables related portions of multiple pages of images to be displayed simultaneously. A projection display apparatus comprises: an image extraction section that extracts at least a portion of given first image data as ... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6826289 | System for changing attribute of image by electronic watermark In the attribute detection apparatus in the system of the present invention, an inputted image is transformed by DCT means to extract an estimation value of the embedded electronic watermark data in frequency space. Then, the statistical similarity between known ele... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6784897 | Apparatus for carrying out translucent-processing to still and moving pictures and method of doing the same An apparatus for carrying out translucent-processing to still and moving pictures, includes (a) a judgment unit which judges whether a picture to be displayed is a still or moving picture, (b) a memory which stores first data about first and second pictures to be pr... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6707465 | Data processing apparatus and method, and storage medium This invention provides a technique capable of always keeping digital watermark information embedded in image data having the embedded digital watermark information by an optimum scheme on the basis of a time factor, or removing a digital watermark, or erasing the i... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6611266 | Method for achieving roaming capabilities and performing interactive CGI implanting, and computer games using same A method for realistically implanting a non-floating. Computer Graphic Image object into a real camera image sequence filmed scene, and for obtaining roaming capabilities therein, including modeling a picture into which a Computer Graphic Image object is ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6539240 | Data communication apparatus, data communication method, and storage medium storing computer program for data communication It is determined whether or not a receiver responds to a call from a caller. If it is detected that the receiver has responded, a communication channel is maintained, and thereafter two characters respectively representing the caller and receiver are comm... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6535232 | Device for controlling quality of reproduction of motion picture and method for controlling the same An apparatus comprises an object generation unit for generating an object based on three-dimensional object data externally input, an object position determination unit that moves the generated object according to a user input, and thereby determines an o... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6486900 | System and method for a video display screen saver A system for minimizing screen burn on a display screen caused by the display of video images that do not occupy the entire area of the display screen includes video image processing circuitry for formatting a received video signal to display an active im... | 11/26/2002 |
