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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8164600 | Method and system for combining images generated by separate sources A system and method for combining images generated by separate sources. The system comprises a plurality of video image data sources that generate separate video images. The video images are captured and scaled by image processing hardware to fit within the viewport... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8120623 | Apparatuses for overlaying images, portable devices having the same and methods of overlaying images An apparatus for overlaying images includes a broadcast image layer generator, an application image layer generator, and an overlay processor. The broadcast image layer generator generates a broadcast image layer based on a received broadcast signal. The application... | 02/21/2012 |
| 7859552 | Image processing apparatus A image processing apparatus includes a first image converting section for converting an original image into an output resolution image, a second image converting section for converting the original image into an intermediate resolution image, a similarity informati... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7667717 | System and method for displaying images utilizing multi-blending A system and method for processing images utilizing varied feature class weights is provided. A computer system associates two or more images with a set of feature class data, such as color and texture data. The computer system assigns a set of processing weights fo... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7420571 | Method for processing a gray level in a plasma display panel and apparatus using the same A system and method for processing a gray level in a display device performs a random error diffusion operation on the video data using a first random coefficient value and a random dithering operation on the error-diffused video data using a second random coefficie... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7400763 | Smart erasure brush Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for erasing in a digital image. A method includes identifying a plurality of tip regions on the image, establishing an erasure color, and completely erasing pixels in the tip region that have a color matchi... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7372471 | System and method for single-sample virtual coverage anti-aliasing A graphics system has a mode of operation in which primitive coverage information is generated for real sample locations and virtual sample locations for use in anti-aliasing pixels. An individual pixel has a single real sample with color information and at least on... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7348996 | Method of and system for pixel sampling A method, system, and article of manufacture for reducing aliasing. A method in accordance with one embodiment sampling a pixel of an image at a plurality of pixel sample points to produce a corresponding plurality of pixel sample values, wherein at least one of the... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343415 | Display of software notes indicating that content from a content provider site is available for display First program code is executed at a content recipient so as to identify a content provider having posted content of interest to the content recipient. Second program code is executed at the content recipient so as to automatically access the content provider and ini... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339570 | Data signal line drive circuit, drive circuit, image display device incorporating the same, and electronic apparatus using the same An image display device includes two data signal line drive circuits and two scan signal line drive circuits configured differently from each other. Different data signal line drive circuits and scan signal line drive circuit are compatible with different display fo... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337270 | Apparatus, system, and method for servicing a data storage device using work-in-process (WIP) maps An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for servicing a data storage device. A service registration module registers a service process for servicing the stripe groups of a data storage device. A WIP map initialization module creates a WIP map for each stripe ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337321 | Digital content protection using invisible and visible watermarks A technique for distributing digital contents capable of effectively protecting copyrights and the like on the basis of invisible electronic watermark information and electronic watermark information is to be provided. On the sending side, additional information inc... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333119 | System and method for virtual coverage anti-aliasing A graphics system has a mode of operation in which real samples and virtual samples are generated for anti-aliasing pixels. Each virtual sample identifies a set of real samples associated with a common primitive that covers a virtual sample location within a pixel. ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327375 | Control program for display apparatus As characters move, building are rotated and deformed, then, a powerful expression as if the characters moved lively and freely in three-dimensional space. The game machine stores a first image plane for displaying a ground, a second plane for displaying imag... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321371 | Data conversion device The data conversion device of the present invention includes: a coding section for replacing (i) one or more components constituting the display data of each pixel and other one or more components constituting display data of a pixel existing around that pixel on a ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318681 | Label making apparatus A label making apparatus displays a copy print setting screen to make a user input a number of sets or labels to be copied, and determines whether or not a value stored in a total number of sets in a RAM is 1. After the determination, if the total number of sets is ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7301543 | Systems and methods for selecting a white point for image displays Several embodiments of the present application disclose techniques, systems and methods for changing or rendering input image data that may assume a first white point for a given display into image data to be rendered under a second—assumed, desired or measured—... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298923 | Method and system for focus-adaptive reconstruction of spine images A method for aligning a pair of digital images includes providing a pair of digital images, wherein each said image comprises a plurality of intensities corresponding to a domain of points in a D-dimensional space, and the pair of images present adjacent views of a ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7289086 | Image data correction method and apparatus for plasma display panel, and plasma display panel device having the apparatus An image data correction method and apparatus for a plasma display panel, and a plasma display panel device having the apparatus. The image data correction method calculates a load factor of video signals fed into a plasma display panel, and determines an automatic ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7277118 | Method and system for compensating for parallax in multiple camera systems A camera array captures plural component images which are combined into a single scene. In one embodiment, each camera of the array is a fixed digital camera. The images from each camera are warped to a common coordinate system and the disparity between overlapping ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7245308 | Display control device and display device A display control device is provided which includes characteristic value-calculating unit for calculating a characteristic value based on an input image signal, a conversion characteristic-calculating unit for determining a conversion characteristic from the charact... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7230628 | Previewing a framed image print An apparatus and method of generating a visual representation of an image based product. Where the image based product is a picture image, the method produces a framed prototype image showing the picture image framed within a frame. The method includes providing a f... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7218332 | Method and apparatus for windowing and image rendition Systems and methods are presented for processing and rendering image data during a single pass through the image data. A method includes loading scanlines of image data into a rolling band buffer, performing a windowing technique on the image data, and determining i... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7209572 | Digital watermark embedding apparatus, digital watermark extraction apparatus, and methods thereof A document image undergoes document analysis to obtain circumscribing rectangles of characters (S601), and two distances between non-neighboring circumscribing rectangles from the head of the document are respectively calculated as d1 and d2 (S | 04/24/2007 |
| 7205998 | System and process for optimal texture map reconstruction from multiple views A system and process for reconstructing optimal texture maps from multiple views of a scene is described. In essence, this reconstruction is based on the optimal synthesis of textures from multiple sources. This is generally accomplished using basic image processing... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7194630 | Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, storage medium and program A provider side apparatus provides original digital data together with a digital signature generated by the provider side apparatus, the digital signature detecting whether the original digital data was falsified or detecting a change level given to the original dig... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190807 | Digital watermark extracting method, apparatus, program and storage medium The invention is to precisely extract a digital watermark from image data which are subjected to embedding of the digital watermark in a state of a binary image and are then converted into a multi-value image (gray scale image). For attaining the foregoing ob... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190338 | Data signal line drive circuit, drive circuit, image display device incorporating the same, and electronic apparatus using the same An image display device includes two data signal line drive circuits and two scan signal line drive circuits configured differently from each other. Different data signal line drive circuits and scan signal line drive circuit are compatible with different display fo... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190373 | Alpha channel filter An image processing filter processes an image, and the resultant processed image is merged with an unprocessed version of the image using an alpha channel. The ability to modify the alpha channel based on user input is provided, and the image is reprocessed upon the... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190370 | Previewing and manipulating a framed image print An apparatus and method of generating a visual representation of an image based product. Where the image based product is a picture image, the method produces a framed prototype image showing the picture image framed within a frame. The method includes providing a f... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7184047 | Method and apparatus for the generation of computer graphic representations of individuals Apparatus for generating computer models of individuals is provided comprising a booth (1) that is connected to a server (2) via the Internet (3). Image data of an individual is captured using the booth (1) and a computer model correspond... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184606 | Image processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program In an image processing apparatus, the head top of a subject is detected, and the positions of a camera and a mirror are adjusted so that the coordinates of the detected head top coincide with the coordinates of a reference head top. When it is determined that the co... | 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 |
| 7167165 | Temporary lines for writing A user is provided with guidelines that are temporarily displayed with content, in order to assist the user in neatly and accurately writing electronic ink. The guidelines may appear when the user moves a writing tool, such as a stylus or pen, close to a display and... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158153 | Method and circuit for adjusting background contrast in a display device A method for adjusting the contrast of a background region in a display device is provided. A video signal for a background region is received in a background region mode. The gain of the video signal is adjusted responsive to a background region control signal ther... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158143 | Fast algorithm for anisotropic texture sampling A faster algorithm for computing the texture of a pixel is disclosed. A major and minor direction in texel space are determined. Steps in the major direction are set to unity and steps in the minor direction are set to the slope of the anistropy line of the footprin... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7155601 | Multi-element operand sub-portion shuffle instruction execution An apparatus and method for performing a shuffle operation on packed data is described. In one embodiment, a 128-bit packed data operand having at eight data elements is accessed. In one embodiment, one of the data elements in the upper half of the data operand is s... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7126609 | Method and apparatus for painting groups of objects Methods and apparatus, including computer program apparatus, implementing techniques for processing digital artwork. In one aspect, the techniques process aggregations of artwork where both the aggregation and at least some of the aggregated artwork have attached st... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7113193 | Method for color transition detection A hand-manipulated prop is picked-up via a single video camera, and the camera image is analyzed to isolate the part of the image pertaining to the object for mapping the position and orientation of the object into a three-dimensional space, wherein the three-dimens... | 09/26/2006 |
