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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8139089 | Navigating digital images using detail-in-context lenses In an implementation, an appearance of lens is displayed on a display device for a selected region of an image to magnify the selected region of the image in comparison with a portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens. A zoomed-in view of the image ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134829 | Foldable electronic device The invention discloses a foldable electronic device having a folding module pivotally connected to a first body and a second body. The folding module has at least one folding member with a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion defined thereon, wh... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8120624 | Detail-in-context lenses for digital image cropping, measurement and online maps In one or more implementations, a signal is received selecting a geographic location in an original image of a digital map for display on a display. The original image is distorted to give an appearance of a lens being applied to the digital map for display on the d... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8094170 | Composite image-generating device and computer-readable medium storing program for causing computer to function as composite image-generating device A composite image-generating device includes: a geometric transformation table that assigns coordinates corresponding to positions of pixels of an output image on an input image received from a capturing section; and an output image-generating section that generates... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094169 | Imaging model and apparatus A system and method for making an imaging model and an imaging apparatus. An apparatus for image processing may include an optical element having a field of view, and image sectoring element coupled to the optical element, the image sectoring element configured to s... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8063917 | Image processing system and program An object can be deformed in a remarkably short processing time. The image processing system (10) comprises: a first mesh creating section (36) for creating data on such an intermediate triangular mesh that the secondary error metric representative of ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8063918 | Method and apparatus for rendering images with and without radially symmetric distortions A method and apparatus for rendering images with and without radially symmetric distortions is described in which the forward and backward radial distortion rendering processes are decomposed into two stages. One-dimensional elements in one planar dimension (rows or... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7978210 | Detail-in-context lenses for digital image cropping and measurement In one or more implementations, a cropped image is defined within a boundary on an original image displayed on a display. The original image is distorted to give an appearance of a lens being applied to the original image displayed on the display, the appearance of ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7952595 | Image deformation using physical models A method for deforming an image using a physical model includes inputting the image, discrediting the image into a grid, applying forces to the grid upon receiving an input command for dragging the grid, updating a mesh deformation of the grid according to the force... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7808513 | Automatic keystone correction system and method The invention relates to an automatic keystone correction system and method. The system includes an interface to display a pattern on a projection surface and a controller to distort image data responsive to the pattern. The pattern includes a plurality of polygons,... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7737998 | System and method for contiguous images from polygons A system, method and computer-readable media are disclosed for generating an image from another image of contiguous polygons and a vector containing values to which areas of corresponding polygons are scaled. The method embodiment relates to generating an image from... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7705862 | System and method for improved keystone correction I describe and claim a system and method for improved keystone correction. The method comprising identifying input values associated with an image projected on the projection surface, the input values including one or more center-points on edges of a distorted proje... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7583276 | Warping tool definition Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implement techniques for modifying an image. A warping tool has a perimeter having a shape and a size. The warping tool has one or more associated vectors each of which originates at a mesh point defined by... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7567263 | Brush for warping and water reflection effects A system for generating a warping effect in an image having a plurality of regions, each associated with a distortion vector. The system includes a programmable processor; and a computer-readable medium including a computer program product comprising instructions op... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7495678 | Navigating digital images using detail-in-context lenses A method for navigating a computer generated original image presented on a display screen, comprising: displaying a first region of the original image; distorting the original image to produce a presentation having a distorted region for the first region and display... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7411595 | Tool for extracting and manipulating components of warping transforms Methods and products are disclosed concerning extraction of selected components of a warping of an image. Given a warped image and a distortion grid, the distortion at any point in the image may be viewed locally as a displacement and a linear transform. The linear ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7359575 | Dynamic warp map generation system and method Dynamic warp map generation system and corresponding method are disclosed. A compactor obtains spatial transformation parameters along with geometric and optical distortion parameters and combines them to form hybrid grid data in a hybrid vector space. This vector s... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356199 | Mobile communication terminal equipped with camera having image distortion compensation function Disclosed herein is a mobile communication terminal equipped with a camera having an image distortion compensation function which compensates image distortion created by a luminance difference between pixels in the vicinity of a central portion of a pixel array of a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356198 | Method and system for calculating a transformed image from a digital image The invention relates to a system and method for calculating a transformed image from a digital image and formatted information related to a geometric transformation, especially formatted information related to the distortion and/or chromatic aberrations of an appli... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352914 | Data processing apparatus A data processing apparatus is provided for detecting distortion of a data signal to which a template signal has been introduced into different frequency bands of the signal. The apparatus includes a frequency component processor operable to generate data representa... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352913 | System and method for correcting multiple axis displacement distortion A system and method for correcting distortion in projected images caused by the projection of an input image by a projector lens onto a projection screen having a surface that is not orthogonal to the projection axis of the projector. Projection parameters including... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347564 | Keystone correction using a part of edges of a screen The projector comprises an image forming panel that forms an effective panel image for modulating the light into an image light in an image forming area of a panel surface, and an image capturing unit for capturing a specific projection area wherein the image light ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7336277 | Per-pixel output luminosity compensation Per-pixel luminosity adjustment uses a luminosity mask applied as a texture. In one embodiment, a luminosity texture is defined. Pixel data of an underlying image is converted to an image texture. The image texture is blended onto a target surface. The luminosity te... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333252 | Method of writing a composite 1-step hologram A method of writing a single or double parallax composite 1-step hologram is disclosed. Digital data is acquired from a real or virtual object and is described by a luminous intensity tensor. A single mathematical transformation is performed to convert the luminous ... | 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 |
| 7324705 | Image distortion system and method A method and system of distorting an image, particularly but not solely designed for magnifying parts of an image more than the remainder of the image. The method comprises the steps of maintaining in computer memory a set of base data values representing an image t... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321374 | Method and device for the generation of 3-D images A method for generating three-dimensional images based on a sequence of two-dimensional images is characterized by the steps of: analyzing a two-dimensional image with respect to its scene type, selecting a deformation assigned to the defined scene type with which t... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7312805 | User defined warping tool Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implement techniques for modifying an image. A warping tool has a perimeter having a shape and a size. The warping tool has one or more associated vectors each of which originates at a mesh point defined by... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312806 | Dynamic width adjustment for detail-in-context lenses A method for reducing occlusion in a presentation of a region-of-interest of an original image, the presentation generated by distorting the original image to produce a lens having a focal region for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7304680 | Method and device for correcting an image, particularly for occupant protection A source image (S) that is distorted by camera optics is transformed into a corrected image (T) by using a tabular imaging rule. This transformation occurs directly during the reading out from the image sensor and in real-time. No, one or several target pixels in th... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7301547 | Augmented reality system A virtual reality system surveys a real-world environment, generates 3D data that defines the real-world environment, renders a virtual 3D environment using the 3D data, retrieves a virtual object from a database comprised of pre-stored virtual objects, renders the ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7292250 | Character deformation pipeline for computer-generated animation A deformation system for animation abstracts the notion of per-point deformation to create a pipeline, including a number of deformation modules capable of handling animation of geometry (such as characters), dynamics (such as simulations) and/or effects (such as pa... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286144 | System and method for contiguous images from polygons A system, method and computer-readable media are disclosed for generating an image from another image of contiguous polygons and a vector containing values to which areas of corresponding polygons are scaled. The method embodiment relates to generating an image from... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283141 | Method and system for enhanced detail-in-context viewing An improved method for display of a transitional region of interest while transitioning between a first region of interest and a second region of interest within visual information on a display screen of a computer. The method comprising the steps of applying a tran... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274381 | Panoramic imaging and display system with canonical magnifier The present invention provides an image acquisition and viewing system that employs a fish-eye lens and an imager, such as, a CCD array, to obtain a wide angle image, e.g., an image of a hemispherical field of view. The system of the invention further includes a pri... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274382 | Customizable background sizes and controls for changing background size This invention provides systems and methods that allow a user to change the size of a background used with a graphics-based user interface. This enables tailored background sizes based on user preference and allowable conditions, which are particularly useful with d... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7256801 | Elastic presentation space A method for displaying visual information on a display screen of a computer, comprising the steps of scaling the visual information to produce a scaled representation to fit on the display screen the scaled representation containing the entire content of the visual... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252386 | Keystone distortion correction of a projector The method comprises the steps of: capturing an output image projected on an actual projection surface; outputting imaging information that includes brightness information having a correlation to a brightness; and correcting a distortion of the output image in relat... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7242407 | Reprojecting map images using graphical techniques A system and method of re-projecting a map image using graphical techniques is provided. A digital map image, in a first projection, may be divided into a number of rectangular sub-images, the geographic coordinates for the four corners of the rectangular sub-image ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239331 | Method and apparatus for correction of perspective distortion Perspective distortion in an imaged scene is corrected by identifying a group of points in the imaged scene such that the group of points define a shape. Two vanishing points are determined based on the group of points in the imaged scene. The process determines a f... | 07/03/2007 |
