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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7969454 | Composite photograph creation system and composite photograph creation apparatus A composite photograph creation system creates a composite photograph by pasting a user image at a previously determined user image combination position on a template image. The system comprises: a user terminal which sends the user image to one of transmission dest... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7391422 | 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... | 06/24/2008 |
| RE40384 | Apparatus and method for manipulating scanned documents in a computer aided design system An apparatus and method for manipulating scanned documents using computer aided design (CAD) commands includes a link program which receives the CAD commands and displays all or selected portions of a raster-based image, which is created by scanning a hard copy docu... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7365787 | Mobile device with integrated camera operations A mobile device with an integrated camera responsive to signals from a camera activator. The mobile device includes application programs capable of editing documents. The user triggers the device operating system to switch from an active application program in which... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7349837 | Systems and methods for a programming environment for a simulation of a computer application The system includes a novel software application interactive representation modeling language, a software application (82) operative to use the modeling language to create, read and modify interactive representation models of the proposed applications, a memo... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7319980 | Method and a computer network server for facilitating sale of an object A method for facilitating sale of objects such as caps over the Internet, including providing a user input for selecting a display icon representing the object offered for sale, providing a user input for a design element selected by the user to be included on the o... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317449 | Key-based advanced navigation techniques The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates navigating smoothly and gracefully through any type of content viewable on portable devices. Such navigation can be performed while preserving perspective and context with respect to a larger... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315471 | Semiconductor memory device for storing multivalued data Data storage circuits are connected to the bit lines in a one-to-one correspondence. A write circuit writes the data on a first page into a plurality of first memory cells selected simultaneously by a word line. Thereafter, the write circuit writes the data on a sec... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7283274 | Method and system for printing user data to form documents A method and apparatus for printing user data to a form document. A scanner scans the form document at low resolution and sends document data to the computer system. User data to be printed on the form document is input into the computer system and displayed as a us... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280707 | Registration of separations Images may be registered using temporal (time-based) and spatial information. In a film implementation, because film is a sequence of frames, using information from neighboring frames may enable a temporally smoother visual experience. In addition, it may be benefic... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7260270 | Image creating device and image creating method An image-capturing unit generates an image signal corresponding to an image of a subject formed by a photographing optical system. A point spread function generating unit generates varying point spread functions corresponding to various distances based upon two-dime... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260614 | Methods and systems for scalable streaming of images with client-side control Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for managing and transmitting image data. Some embodiments are particularly suited to streaming JPEG 2000 images from a web server. ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257268 | Systems and methods for image pattern recognition Systems and methods for image pattern recognition comprise digital image capture and encoding using vector quantization (“VQ”) of the image. A vocabulary of vectors is built by segmenting images into kernels and creating vectors corresponding to each kernel. Ima... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256798 | Processing complex regions of illustration artwork A computer-based method of processing a computer graphics illustration having pieces of artwork includes mapping outlines of the pieces of artwork onto a grid of cells, determining a number of outlines that map to a cell, and identifying a complex region based on th... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7246085 | Electronic catalogue system, server, and medium for displaying on one screen images of a commercial product and articles for comparison An electronic catalogue system which, for easy sensory recognition of the size of a commercial product which is displayed in an electronic catalogue, displays on one screen the image of the commercial product together with the image of an article for comparison whic... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239582 | Interpolation of optical disc vertical displacement information A method of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed that determines optical disc vertical displacement information at a number of positions on an optical disc. The method interpolates optical disc vertical displacement information at a number of other positions... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236648 | Scaling images for display A graphic image that has pixels arranged in rows and columns is scaled by processing a succession of segments. Each segment comprises contiguous pixels. The row and column dimensions of each segment do not correspond to an intended degree of scaling in both dimensio... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7197714 | Optimizing graphical data synchronization between a graphical client and a stateless server A method for synchronizing data between a graphical client and a stateless server. Descriptions of one or more root object nodes of a scene is downloaded from the server to the graphical client, wherein the descriptions may include references to other object nodes i... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194677 | Method and system to convert paper documents to electronic documents and manage the electronic documents A method for storing, organizing and providing remote electronic access to documents. A cover sheet including a standard set of identification data characterizing each document is developed and stored. A digital version of each document is created and stored by scan... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191145 | Method and system automatically to price a promotional product A computer-implemented method to price a promotional product includes the generation of a user interface that facilitates input of specification information concerning the promotional product, the specification information including product information identifying a... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187389 | System and method for simultaneous display of multiple object categories A system and method for displaying objects in a plurality of layers. The layers are distinguished from one another using a variety of display attributes in order to emphasize objects in upper layers and de-emphasize objects in lower layers. The display attributes ma... | 03/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7184045 | Image processing apparatus, display apparatus with touch panel, image processing method and computer program An image processing apparatus comprises: a boundary line designating unit which designates a boundary line for dividing a screen into a plurality of regions; and a region selecting unit which selects either one of the inside and the outside of the boundary line desi... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7177484 | Method for using customer images in a promotional product A method of offering a customized promotional product to a user. The method comprises the steps of: accessing a user-supplied digital image at a digital imaging device; providing a digital image representative of a promotional product, the promotional product digita... | 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 |
| 7176937 | Methods and apparatus for displaying multiple data categories Methods and apparatus are provided for displaying data categories each having a plurality of data subcategories. The apparatus comprises a display having a current luminous output capacity that is configured to produce a first visual presentation of first data subca... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7158147 | Method and apparatus for pixel filtering using shared filter resource between overlay and texture mapping engines A configurable filter module for providing shared filter resource between an overlay engine and a texture mapping engine of a graphics system. The configurable filter may comprise a plurality of linear blend units each of which receives data input from one of the ov... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7146305 | Analytical virtual machine An analytical virtual machine (AVM) analyzes computer code using a software processor including a register that stores behavior flags indicative of behaviors identified by virtually executing the code within the virtual machine. The AVM includes a sequencer that sto... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7139004 | Method and apparatus to convert bitmapped images for use in a structured text/graphics editor In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, disclosed is an image analysis and conversion method and system, where bitmapped ink images are converted to structured object representations of the bitmapped images, which may be read and edited by a structur... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7130466 | System and method for compiling images from a database and comparing the compiled images with known images A method and system for discovering from a database an object which is confusingly similar with a known object. A database, such as the internet, is searched for objects which, when discovered, may be duplicated and stored. A determination is then made if any object... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127600 | Aggressive content pre-fetching during pre-boot runtime to support speedy OS booting A method and system for content pre-fetching during a processing system pre-boot runtime. First, it is determined when a processor of a processing system is in one of a busy wait state and an idle state during a pre-boot runtime of the processing system. Then, conte... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127415 | Method and system for acquiring branded promotional products A method and system allows users to purchase branded promotional products over the Internet through a central, real-time exchange process. Users may include customers, resellers, vendor partners, business service partners and medial partners. This system provides a ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7110616 | Device for processing images, in particular medical images A device for generating fusion images by fusioning two images, in particular medical images, comprising an image-processing computation unit (2) for fusioning the images, as well as a monitor (3) connected thereto for image output, a gray-value histogr... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110586 | Apparatus for remote control of a microscope An apparatus and method acquires and stores multiple resolution images from a specimen on a support and provides to the user a low magnification, reconstructed macro image of the entire specimen, or a large portion thereof, to aid the person in selecting points of i... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7089298 | Naming distribution method for ad hoc networks Device name conflicts are resolved when adding devices to existing ad hoc networks or when joining two ad hoc networks together. After a connection has been established between a new device to be added and a first member device in the ad hoc network, a name distribu... | 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 |
| 7050112 | Method and device for displaying at least two images within one combined picture A device for processing a first video signal and a second video signal that contain image data which overlap within a combined picture includes a processing element and a controller. The processing element receives the first video signal containing first image pixel... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7034840 | Method for an image reducing processing circuit A method for an image reducing processing circuit includes the memory architecture of two FIFO units. The method includes the following steps of: providing an input processing unit receiving original image data and delivering the image data; providing a horizontal d... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7034317 | Method and apparatus for limiting scanning imaging array data to characteristics of interest A method and system for limiting the amount of image data to be captured by a scanning imaging array. A low-resolution preliminary image of an object is acquired. Data from the preliminary image is used to identify features of interest in the object or to perform ot... | 04/25/2006 |
