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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7362330 | Adaptive span computation when ray casting A processor uses start point fractional values during view screen segment computations that start a view screen segment's computations a particular distance away from a down point. This prevents an excessive sampling density during image generation without wasting p... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7280153 | Displaying data on lower resolution displays Data intended to be displayed on a higher resolution display such as a non-interlaced display used as a computer monitor may be converted for display on a lower resolution display such as an interlaced display. The conversion may be done in a way that preserves the ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277140 | Image shifting device, image display, liquid crystal display, and projection image display The invention provides an image shifting device including at least one image shifting part for periodically shifting the position of an optical axis. The image shifting part includes a liquid crystal device 10 for switching a polarization direction of light b... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7221364 | Image generating apparatus, image generating method, and computer program An image generating apparatus (1) is provided with: a drawing application processor (11) for indicating a drawing device (13) to generate a 3D image; and a graphics library (12). The drawing application processor separates information to ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7158148 | Display equipment, display method, and recording medium for recording display control program A three-times magnified pattern of a central target pixel and horizontally contiguously adjacent sub-pixel patterns next thereto are determined on the basis of a reference pattern that has a rectangular profile and further that consist of eight-neighboring pixel abo... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7123260 | System and method for synthetic vision terrain display A synthetic rendering of the terrain within a selected field of view is created from raw terrain elevation data, and the resolution of the rendering is proportioned to the altitude above ground level (altitude AGL) of the aircraft. All the data points are subdivided... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7098936 | Image display system and method including optical scaling A method of displaying an image having a first aspect ratio with a display device having a second aspect ratio includes receiving image data for the image, buffering the image data and creating a frame of the image at the first aspect ratio, defining a first sub-fra... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7084889 | Digital picture scaling A method for scaling a digital picture to generate a scaled picture including following steps:(a) scaling a portion of the digital picture instead of the whole digital picture in a first direction; (b) scaling part of the data produced in step (a) in a second direct... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7057622 | Graphics display system with line buffer control scheme A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, a graphics input and an audio input simultaneously. The chip includes a display engine that process... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7050075 | Data conversion circuit and color image display apparatus A data conversion circuit is provided for displaying a high definition image whose resolution is different from that of a display screen having a cell arrangement that is not a square arrangement. The data conversion circuit performs addition operation with weightin... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6980324 | Apparatus and method for generating multicolor image When a multicolor image indicated by image data is generated, a signal for generation of a monochrome image according to the image data is amended according to the information about the monochrome image contained in the image data and according to the information ab... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6961029 | Pixel border for improved viewability of a display device A display device having a display matrix including a pixel border of width x and located around the edge locations of the matrix for improved viewability. In particular, the border can be several pixels wide, e.g., 1 | 11/01/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6917361 | Method and system for computing a transverse derivative field along a curve on a surface According to one embodiment of the invention, a computerized method for computing a transversal derivative field along a curve on a surface includes receiving data defining the surface, the surface represented in terms of parameters u and v as S(u,v), and receiving ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6751565 | Fast waveform display method and system Waveform data contains waveform signals having transition events and is subdivided into data blocks. Indexing elements are provided for each waveform signal that correspond to a time range of the waveform data, and have a pointer to a data block within which transit... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6670964 | Automatic scaler mode detection A system selects either a first scaler in a host computer or a second scaler in a display device, the first scaler having a predetermined output quality. The system instructs the display device to render a pattern; determines the output quality of the sec... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6664970 | Display apparatus capable of on-screen display A display apparatus includes a resolution conversion unit for converting the resolution of an input image signal into a predetermined resolution and generating a sync signal synchronized with the converted image signal, a mixing unit for mixing an on-scre... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6515678 | Video magnifier for a display of data The present invention is directed to a system and method for magnifying a display of video data. In an exemplary embodiment, a system for magnifying a display of data includes a receiver for receiving a first set of video data including video data formatt... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6509931 | Resolution conversion unit and apparatus having resolution conversion unit The large circuit scale problem is avoided by applying a systematic algorithm for both enlargement and reduction. A resolution conversion unit for converting the resolution of an input video signal with a magnification of M/N is provided with a storage pa... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6433792 | Apparatus and method for three-dimensional terrain rendering A method for rendering a three-dimensional terrain, the method including providing at least one previous display pixel having a previous ray from a point of view through the at least one previous display pixel to a previous terrain unit intersecting an ax... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6411305 | Image magnification and selective image sharpening system and method An initial magnified image is generated using a lowpass magnification filter. The resulting image will generally have smaller image data gradients than the original image. Portions of the image that the user, or an application, want to sharpen are selecte... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6411274 | Digital map display zooming method, digital map display zooming device, and storage medium for storing digital map display zooming program A digital map display zooming method for continuously enlarging and reducing a displayed portion of a digital map as map information in digital form within a display screen is provided which comprises the steps of displaying the displayed portion of the d... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6407747 | Computer screen image magnification system and method An image magnifying method and apparatus magnifies a portion of an image displayed on a computer display device. The user of the computer selects a first region (called a magnification window) of the displayed image, for instance using a mouse or trackbal... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6400375 | Information processing apparatus and method as well as providing medium An information processing apparatus and method as well as a providing medium which allow thumbnail images to be displayed in an arbitrary size designated by a user thereby to allow efficient management of image data. A setting inputting section detects an... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6392660 | Apparatus and method for displaying zoomed version of stored image by displaying and shifting based on pixel overlap A method of displaying a zoomed version of stored image on a display, where the stored image is defined by a set of data entries mapped to respective pixels of the display. The stored image is first scaled relative to the display in accordance with the de... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6377280 | Edge enhanced image up-sampling algorithm using discrete wavelet transform A method comprising constructing virtual (Discrete Wavelet Transform) DWT sub-bands from an image by performing the DWT and then applying an inverse DWT upon the virtual sub-bands, the result of the inverse DWT representing an up-sampled version of the im... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6348929 | Scaling algorithm and architecture for integer scaling in video A method for scaling of an image that includes providing an N-tap filter to be applied upon an image region and applying the N-tap filter variously to the image region and obtaining therefrom at least one scaled image pixel, such that N is equal to the sc... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6307569 | POCS-based method for digital image interpolation A method for enlarging a digital image includes selecting an initial image having a size N×N; determining a low frequency portion and a high frequency portion of the initial image; defining a model image having fixed bounds for each pixel therein; estima... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6188382 | Image display apparatus with improved image portion An image display apparatus including a liquid crystal display panel (LCD) constituting an image display plane composed of a plurality of pixels arranged with a pixel pitch, a LCD driver circuit which receives an input image signal S1 and displays an image... | 02/13/2001 |
| 5910795 | Digital image signal processing A raster scanned image may be scaled up or down for display on e.g. a portion of a computer display. This is achieved by dividing the image into a plurality of image cells each with a horizontal width less than that of the whole image. A smoothing algorit... | 06/08/1999 |
| 5838296 | Apparatus for changing the magnification of video graphics prior to display therefor on a TV screen Video magnification apparatus modifies (shrinks or enlarges) video graphic images in a horizontal and vertical direction during a transfer of video graphics data signals from a graphics memory to a television screen. A first magnification modifying device... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5745123 | Method for resizing an image by a factor of two A method for scaling images by a factor of two. Two variables are extracted from an unaligned input stream. The variables are selectively interleaved. The high and low order bytes of the results of the interleaving are multiplied to convert to a 16-bit re... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5493515 | Twice scaled waveform display The twice scaled waveform display apparatus combines a twice scaled factor indication with the autoscaled waveform display so that an input data quality indication is produced based on factors such as signal strength, wherein the twice scaled factor is us... | 02/20/1996 |
| 5422678 | Video processor for enlarging and contracting an image in a vertical direction A video processor which is capable of arbitrarily expanding or contracting an image in a vertical direction is described. A horizontal synchronizing signal HS of a video signal CS is inputted to a reference input terminal 63a of a phase comparator 63 of a... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5410616 | Loop-up table image scaling for rational factors A method and apparatus for scaling image pixel data by a rational scale factor of L/M utilizes look-up tables for input pixel addressing and convolution of up to two adjacent input pixels which offers an improved implementation of a conventional sampling ... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5270695 | Reduction technique for display of a radiographic image A radiographic imaging system including image storage for storing a plurality of radiographic images and a video display for displaying one or more radiographic images in a reduced format. The radiographic images are reduced for display by means of a deci... | 12/14/1993 |
| 4996652 | System for displaying image of extended area A display system includes a memory device, a central processing unit, a converting circuit and a display device. The memory device is for sequentially storing image data at addresses corresponding to positions in line and column directions of an original ... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4672369 | System and method for smoothing the lines and edges of an image on a raster-scan display In system and method for smooth line raster-scan display, a frame buffer containing a high resolution map of information of an image for display is read so as to furnish plural line stored information for each single line of the raster display. Display ci... | 06/09/1987 |
