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A pillow assembly having a supporting assembly and a retractable umbrella assembly that is easily transportable and allows a user to support his/her head while covering their face from sunlight.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7420556 | Information processing method and information processing apparatus An information processing method and information processing apparatus facilitate selection of components which form a geometric model. Of a plurality of components which form a three-dimensional geometric mode, components which satisfy predetermined geometrical sear... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7403211 | Method and system for interactive region segmentation A method and computer graphics program executed by a processor for interactively subdividing a region in a computer controlled graphics display system is described. The user directly manipulates a control object (or “handle”) using a pointing device such as a co... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7324121 | Adaptive manipulators A method of repositioning a manipulator in relation to a viewport is provided in a system for interacting with a three-dimensional object configured with a manipulator. The object and the manipulator are drawn in the viewport and the position of the manipulator is c... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319798 | Apparatus generating 3-dimensional image from 2-dimensional image and method thereof A 3-dimensional image is generated from an input 2-dimensional image based upon illuminative characteristics of the input image by filtering the 2-dimensional input image with filters of different orientations, outputting base shading images corresponding to the fil... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7280686 | Computer-supported image reconstruction method for a three-dimensional subject A computer is supplied with at least three 2-D projections of a subject that are offset from one another by difference angles. A position in the projection surface and a respective surface data value per projection are allocated to the respective surface elements of... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7271795 | Intuitive mobile device interface to virtual spaces The present invention relates to a simple to use intuitive interface for mobile devices and, in particular, to a method and apparatus to permit the motion of a mobile device to serve as an input to the mobile device. In various embodiments, the relative and/or absol... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7233342 | Time and voltage gradation driven display device To provide a display device which is capable of multi-gradation display without complicating the structure of a D/A converter circuit. Of m bit digital video data inputted from the external, upper n bit data is used as voltage gradation information and lower (m−n)... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7221380 | Integrated object bend, squash and stretch method and apparatus A graphical user interface for a computer system includes a display portion configured to display a representation of a first three-dimensional object, wherein the first three-dimensional object has an associated first volume, and a control icon associated with the ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7221379 | Integrated object squash and stretch method and apparatus A graphical user interface for a computer system includes a display portion configured to display a representation of a first three-dimensional object and a second three-dimensional object, wherein the first three-dimensional object has an associated first volume, a... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7193594 | Display device An object of the present invention is to provide a display device which enables multi-gray scale display without complicating the structure of D/A converter circuit. The measure taken to achieve the object is to use n bit of information among m bit digital vi... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7173636 | Method and system for generating detail-in-context lens presentations for elevation data A method for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in an elevation data representation for display on a display screen, comprising: calculating a displacement height for at least one point in the representation falling within a lens by inversely scaling ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7139685 | Video-supported planning of equipment installation and/or room design Disclosed is a room planning and design system, comprising a virtual room space comprising a virtual representation of a physical room space, an object library of virtual objects, said virtual objects comprising virtual representations of equipment, machines and obj... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7091984 | Scalable desktop A method for displaying a desktop display surface. The method includes creating a render target surface having substantially the same dimensions as a desktop display surface, casting the desktop display surface as a texture, and setting the render target surface as ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7075530 | Fast lighting processors The present invention provides methods, apparatus and systems for enabling real-time lighting of 3D geometric models. While these are well-suited for all processors, these are particularly useful on low power processors typically found in PDAs, cell phones, and embe... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7046241 | Oriented three-dimensional editing glyphs One or more embodiments of the invention provide a method, apparatus, system, and article of manufacture for indicating available modifications to a geometric object in a computer drawing program. A three-dimensional geometric object is displayed in a computer drawi... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7023436 | Three-dimensional model processing device, three-dimensional model processing method, program providing medium A three-dimensional model processing apparatus is provided. The three-dimensional model processing apparatus can more really carry out a processing change of shape, color, and the like with respect to a three-dimensional object being displayed on a display by allowi... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7002585 | Graphic display apparatus for robot system 3-D models of various types of objects such as a robot body, and a peripheral equipment, a machine, a part (workpiece), of the robot, are stored in an object library in advance. Dimension line data of an edge line of which dimension can be changed, and constraint co... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6956566 | Streaming of images with depth for three-dimensional graphics An apparatus, executing on a server or similar machine and a client machine, and a corresponding method, includes mechanisms for rendering a two-dimensional image of a three-dimensional object, and streaming the thus-rendered image to the client machine. The mechani... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6950116 | Interactive virtual portal A system for performing interactive virtual reality sessions without constraining the mobility of a user is disclosed. The system allows a user to remain fully mobile while participating in an interactive virtual reality session. The system comprises a handheld comp... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6937291 | Adaptive video scaler An adaptive filter is adjustable for performing scaling operations. During a scaling operation, the adaptive filter stores scaled data in a memory such that more data samples may be retrieved during a subsequent scaling operation. The size of a finite impulse respon... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6879322 | Three-dimensional object display system, three-dimensional object display method and recording medium recording a three-dimensional object display program A three-dimensional object display system for displaying a plurality of objects in an apparent three-dimensional space display according to a plurality of object attributes used as criteria for selecting one or more objects, the system including an object data stora... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6831639 | Computer readable storage medium storing 3-D game image processing program, 3-D game image processing method, video game machine, and 3-D game image processing program The present invention is for easily drawing a polygon model having borderlines at high-speed. The video game machine comprises a recording medium 200 for enlarging the 3-D model where a normal vector of each polygon faces the outside at a predetermined enlarg... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6646642 | Method of creating image frames, storage medium and apparatus for executing program An image representing a motion of an object is obtained with a small processing volume. As shown in FIGS. 5A through 5G, positions in a three-dimensional space associated with sparks of a firework ball are sequentially calculated in accordance with motion... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6629065 | Methods and apparata for rapid computer-aided design of objects in virtual reality and other environments Apparata and methods for rapid design of objects/shapes in Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools and in Virtual Reality (VR) environments are described. The underlying geometric representation of the objects within the design tool is optimized so that design ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6603476 | Method, system and program for topographically aware operating system A topographical aware Operating System (OS) which is platform and application independent. The OS contains a 2D to 3D rendering converter within a topographical framework, a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) interface and topographical application programming in... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6529627 | Generating 3D models by combining models from a video-based technique and data from a structured light technique A 3D modeling system employing a commercially available structured light source is disclosed. The light source projecting a light stripe is swung manually across an object or a particular area of interest on the surface of the object. Under the illuminati... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6529626 | 3D model conversion apparatus and method The invention provides a 3D model conversion method and device, with which a precise face configuration can be performed even when there is occlusion, and which is easy to operate for the user. Based on a plurality of images, a base model defining a geome... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6144386 | Three-dimensional, support socket digitizing system and method An improved three-dimensional, support socket digitizing system to be used primarily to manufacture a precisely configured clinical support device such as an orthotic brace and/or a prosthetic limb. The digitizing system includes at least one probe which ... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5528262 | Method for line field-sequential color video display Describes the application of field-sequential color techniques to create a line field-sequential color display with particular advantages for head-mounted and head-coupled displays. The display is composed of a gray-scale CRT or other white display and a ... | 06/18/1996 |
