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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7439991 | Image information presentation system, image information presentation method, medium storing image information presentation system program, and signal therefor An image information presentation system, wherein when all image information is read from a material memory 101 and is reduced by a listing control means 105 to be listed on a display means 102, the image information read by the listing control ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7345693 | Airport display device An airport display device including a display including at least one window, a database including data related to an airport, a selector configured to select a degree of zoom for the airport to be displayed from a plurality of different degrees of zoom, a control un... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7333545 | Digital video decoding, buffering and frame-rate converting method and apparatus A decoder decodes full frame MPEG-2 video by a single method that applies regardless of buffer memory and frame rate conversion considerations. A display control module handles frame rate and field sequence in response to host configuration, trick play command signa... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324071 | Segmented character display A character display comprises fifty-nine segments arranged into rows and columns. Twenty eight of the fifty-nine segments define a periphery of the display, eleven additional segments define horizontal and vertical dividers that define four quadrants, and five addit... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7292233 | Apparatus and method to connect an external camera to an LCD without requiring a display buffer A data pipeline and clock control (relationship) that allows image data from a camera to pass directly through a display controller to an LCD without being written into, temporarily stored, and read out of a display buffer, e.g. a VRAM, is provided. Elimination of t... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7274389 | Camera apparatus and image processing system with variable resolution In an image capture apparatus, the data rate of image data output from the image capture device is changed by calculating a first data rate of the image data according to a first size of a variable display area that displays the image data. Information indicating th... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7263227 | Activity detector A system and method facilitating activity (e.g., dithering/half toning and/or noise) detection is provided. The invention includes an activity detection system having a connected component analyzer and an activity detector. The invention provides for the quantity of... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7254772 | Systems and methods for visually representing the aging and/or expiration of electronic documents Systems and methods enforce an expiration date for an electronic document and represent the expiration visually. The author may specify an expiration date for an electronic document. The expiration date may be either a date stamp or an integer representing a period ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7243303 | Constraint-optimization system and method for document component layout generation What is disclosed is a system and method for specifying a custom document as a multi-criteria constraint optimization problem, and a method to automatically create the specified document using existing constraint optimization solving algorithms. The present method s... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7233362 | Method for transforming one video output format into another video output format without degrading display quality A method of transforming output formats of video data without degrading display quality. Video data include a plurality of first display data corresponding to a plurality of first odd fields and a plurality of second display data corresponding to a plurality of firs... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233403 | Print control method and apparatus When “store” of intermediate data is designated in a print process, a spooler stores intermediate data and an output job setup file in a spool file. When the stored job is selected, a previewer displays a list of jobs, and displays a print preview image. In this... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7212572 | Image coding method and apparatus and image decoding method and apparatus An image processing method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image data in which the coding and decoding method may be simplified based on factors such as processing speed requirements. In encoding, an image input unit receives a first image and a second image... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7193652 | Dynamic range video recording and playback system and method An improved method and system for capturing and displaying a series of successive video images using at least first and second different exposure times, so that first video images captured using said first exposure time occur alternately in said series with second v... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7161691 | Method and apparatus for multiple media printing When a presentation mode in which print information of a single original is to be printed on an OHP film and paper sheet is designated, print settings for the OHP film and paper sheet are set, one of the OHP film and paper sheet or both of them are selected as a pre... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7110613 | Image processing apparatus and image pickup device Information of light from a subject is converted into information of the electric charges to generate image data for one screen in an image pickup device, the image data is outputted to an image processing LSI, only the image data belonging to a plurality of areas i... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106349 | 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... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7102591 | Video player for electronic apparatus A video player includes a CPU adapted to receive video data from an external electronic apparatus, two memories, and a video encoder connected to a video output device. The CPU stores video data from the external electronic apparatus in a first memory at first, and ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7091974 | Method for selecting and displaying a subject or interest in a still digital image The present invention is in the field of digital imaging. It relates to a method for determining the coordinates of a subject of interest in a digital image, so as to be able to then display this subject of interest on the screen of a terminal with low display capac... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7042469 | Multiple views for a measurement system diagram A system and method for displaying multiple views of a diagram of a measurement system. A first view of the diagram of the measurement system may be displayed at a first scale. The first view may illustrate a first portion, but not all, of the diagram. A second view... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042473 | Method and system for displaying markup language based pages on handheld devices A method and system for displaying an markup language based Web page on a handheld device having a relatively small display is disclosed. The method includes loading a Web page designed for viewing in, for example, SVGA resolution. The page is stored in a virtual me... | 05/09/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7028258 | Dynamic pagination of text and resizing of image to fit in a document Dynamic pagination for electronic documents, such as electronic books, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first processes a document made up of at least text, as a number of segments. Second, the method determines a number of page breaks ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024036 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and program An image processing apparatus substantially performs image processing on an image including first gray-scale conversion processing using a first gray-scale conversion curve. Then, the image processing apparatus performs second gray-scale conversion processing on the... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6967687 | Display control apparatus and method A display control apparatus and a display control method are provided in which a resolution of an input image signal is judged, a change in the image signal is detected, and the image signal is adaptatively interpolated in accordance with the judgement and detection... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6961135 | Print preview display method of displaying pages in an electronic document When “store” of intermediate data is designated in a print process, a spooler stores intermediate data and an output job setup file in a spool file. When the stored job is selected, a previewer displays a list of jobs, and displays a print preview image. In this... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6947169 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE FEATURE AMOUNT ACQUISITION AND MEDIUM RECORDING IMAGE FEATURE AMOUNT ACQUISITION PROGRAM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE CORRECTION AND MEDIUM RECORDING IMAGE CORRECTING PROGRAM, AND PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND MEDIUM RECORDING PRINTING PROGRAM As image data have come to be used in large volumes in recent years, statistical calculation processing of restored and sampled image data often suffers a shortage of memory capacity. In acquiring a feature amount of an image to automatically correct image data, whe... | 09/20/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6927782 | Airport display device The display device (1) comprises display means (2) comprising a screen (3), a data base (4) provided with data on the airport, an actuating system (5) for selecting a degree of zoom, a central unit (6) that controls the disp... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6900819 | Systems and methods for automatic emphasis of freeform annotations A system for automatic emphasis of freeform annotations contained within an electronic document is performed based on a determined importance of each annotation. The importance of each annotation is determined by a mark parser that groups, types and ranks each of th... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6868192 | Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image processing method, and storage medium To provide an image processing apparatus in which even in case of a laterally-wide or vertically-long image, the user can easily and certainly recognize the image by its thumbnail display, there is disclosed an image processing apparatus constructed in such a manner... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6839068 | Picture displaying method and information device If the main picture's size contained in a picture data file is equal to or smaller than the display's size of a displaying portion, a controlling portion displays the main picture in the display area. If the main picture's size is larger than the display's size and ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6829016 | Digital still camera system and method A digital image two-step resizing of filtering an entire image followed by selective row and column deletions. The filtering may use a kernel generated as three samples from a continuous kernel. ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6825854 | Method for image management of X-ray images A method for image management of X-ray images stores the images in files along with reduced-size versions of the images and additional information relating to the images. A user may preview each image in a reduced-size display, based on the reduced-size image, which... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6816170 | System and method for robust and efficient resizing of simple polygons A system and method are disclosed that enable robust resizing of a simple polygon in a computationally inexpensive manner. A preferred embodiment is operable to handle various resizing events that may be encountered when resizing a simple polygon, such as self-inter... | 11/09/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6747668 | Image reducing device and method An image reducing device comprises a simple-averaging device that calculates a simple average of data of pixels of each simple-averaging area of original image data to acquire a pixel of middle image data, and a weighted-averaging device that multiplies data of pixe... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6747637 | Image data processing system The present invention provides an image data processing system to increase the speed of on-screen display (OSD) image processing. The image data processing system comprises M color code registers for storing a plurality of color codes and a first multiplexer electri... | 06/08/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6661420 | Three-dimensional skeleton data compression apparatus The present invention relates to a three-dimensional skeleton data compression apparatus for compressing a skeleton data amount without degrading rendering quality of a three-dimensional object. A weight detecting part detects weight information that is a... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6642935 | Image displaying apparatus and method thereof An image displaying apparatus and method thereof, being an image displaying technology of vector data, in which enlarging or reducing the vector data is performed after separating label information, being character information including in the vector data... | 11/04/2003 |
