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Behavior Modification Wristwatch
A wristwatch including a watch band and a watch body having an octagon shaped perimeter and being red in color and having the word STOP thereon to resemble a stop sign.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7446784 | Displaying a plurality of images in a stack arrangement A method (700) of displaying a plurality of images is disclosed. The method (700) displays the images in a stack arrangement. The stack may be a perspective stack and a non-perspective stack. Another method (1200) of displaying a plurality of im... | 11/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7394473 | Browser and program containing multi-medium content The present invention relates to a program containing a browser capable of dealing with highly functional multimedia content in a straightforward manner, and a multimedia content. A reception terminal 113 accesses a server on a network 112 correspondin... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7372463 | Method and system for intelligent scalable animation with intelligent parallel processing engine and intelligent animation engine A method and a system for computer graphics animation is disclosed. The present invention provides a novel client-server architecture for scalable computer animation particularly adapted to computer animation. The animation tasks are identified as those that scale w... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7366581 | Replace face operator for solid body modeling A computer-implemented solid modeling system performs a replace face operation on a solid body by selecting one or more outgoing faces on the solid target body and replacing the selected faces with one or more incoming faces from an operator body. The selected faces... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7330198 | Three-dimensional object manipulating apparatus, method and computer program When the user touches a display screen, a touch-operated input device (7) detects a coordinate of a user-touched point on the display screen and a touch-input conversion program is executed to determine an axis, direction and speed of rotation of a three-dime... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7321901 | Application service provider model for manufacturers product specification data A business model is described in which one entity hosts, maintains, and provides a uniform interface for entering data into, a database of manufacturers product specification on behalf of a plurality of manufacturers. The entity then serves as an application service... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315306 | Motion-based visualization A data-display system employs a display in which the representations of data objects are caused to move on the display in order to convey information about the represented data objects. In one example, icons in a link-analysis display that represent data objects sat... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310098 | Method and apparatus for rendering three-dimensional object groups An image processing apparatus for performing rendering processing of three-dimensional objects is provided. An object storage unit stores the three-dimensional data of the object and the array data of B-box which encloses the spatial region which the object occupies... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7281229 | Method to create an alternate integrated circuit layout view from a two dimensional database A method in accordance with the present invention prepares an alternate view of an integrated circuit (IC) layout from a top view thereof by selecting an initial polygon representing and IC feature from the top view of the layout, where the initial polygon is define... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7248270 | Stroke-based posing of three-dimensional models A posing system for three-dimensional characters and other models uses a stroke-based gestural language to position elements of the characters in a three-dimensional environment. A user draws a stroke in a two-dimensional interface in connection with a portion of mo... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7190331 | System and method for measuring the registration accuracy of an augmented reality system A method for determining registration accuracy of an augmented reality system is provided. The method includes the steps of providing an input device for inputting a position of a user's touch; registering the input device with a workspace coordinate system of the a... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7158997 | Application service provider model for manufacturers product specification data A business model is described in which one entity hosts, maintains, and provides a uniform interface for entering data into, a database of manufacturers product specification on behalf of a plurality of manufacturers. The entity then serves as an application service... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7139006 | System and method for presenting and browsing images serially A method presents a set of input images on a display device. First, a set of display images is selected from the set of images. A 3D layout is assigned to each selected image, and a 3D trajectory is assigned to a virtual camera. A set of active images of the set of ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7088377 | System and method for designing, synthesizing and analyzing computer generated mechanisms A computer graphics and analysis application improvement providing calculation, regeneration, and display of mechanism solutions based on inputted desired functions such as part positions by extracting functional requirements data from such inputted data so that the... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7054793 | Device and method for generating a virtual model of an installation The invention relates to a method and a device for generating a virtual installation model (2) as an image of a real installation (1). As a database therefor, digital picture data (4) representing pictures of a real installation (1) on th... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7043695 | Object positioning and display in virtual environments A virtual environment for user interaction, and virtual objects for use therein, the virtual objects having an internal co-ordinate system with natural language definition to allow simplified inter-object relationships. The internal co-ordinate system is used to def... | 05/09/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7006952 | 3-D model providing device For an apparatus effectively providing a real three-dimensional model to a customer, three-dimensional shape data of a target is obtained at a data input section (10). The data is managed by a server which is connected to a network. A suitable formation secti... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003737 | Method for interactive browsing and visualization of documents in real space and time A system and method for displaying, browsing and accessing content in real space and time. In one embodiment, a user may browse and access multiple types of electronic content in a three dimensional representation of real space and time, where each document has a ti... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000197 | Method and apparatus for inferred selection of objects One or more embodiments of the invention comprises a collection of techniques to infer the real construction of a collection of graphical elements. Typically the underlying graphical elements of a physical object have a parent-child relationship in the graphical dis... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6999102 | Framework for objects having authorable behaviors and appearances A framework is described that serves as an expression evaluator and notification manager for software objects, and can traverse individual object models to use parts of one model to define another. An object model (data model) is a map of an object's properties and ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6985162 | Systems and methods for rendering active stereo graphical data as passive stereo A preferred method includes the steps of receiving the active stereo video data containing the right channel pixel data and the left channel pixel data corresponding to the image to be rendered, re-sequencing the right channel pixel data and the left channel pixel d... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6975756 | Image-based photo hulls The invention features an improved, photo hull based method of generating a three-dimensional representation of a visual scene based upon a set of multi-view reference images. In one aspect, a visual hull containing the visual scene is computed. Visibility of points... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6961055 | Methods and apparatus for constructing virtual environments The invention relates to methods, apparatus, and software for designing and building virtual environments for playing computer games. A map builder is used to construct one or more two-dimensional maps comprised of tiles selected from a set of tiles, the map or maps... | 11/01/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6937255 | Imaging apparatus and method of the same An image apparatus and method of the same use a circular marker having two semicircular portions of first and second color areas separated by a center line. An image of a real space including the marker is acquired and an area of the marker is detected from the imag... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6928618 | Intelligent drag of assembly components One or more embodiments of the invention provide a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for positioning a graphical component in a computer-implemented drawing program. A selection of a graphical component displayed on a display device is received. Thereaft... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6907573 | Intelligent constraint definitions for assembly part mating One or more embodiments of the invention provide a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for defining mating properties of a graphical component in a computer-implemented drawing program. An option to create a first constraint interface for a first geometric... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6903742 | Method and apparatus for transforming and rendering graphical curves The present invention provides a method and apparatus for rendering images on a computer screen. Under the invention, a portion of a base image is described using a path. The path is then transformed using a non-affine transform to produce a transformed path. The tr... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6836274 | Three dimensional light electronic programming guide A method and apparatus of displaying an Electronic Programming Guide (EPG). In one embodiment, an EPG is displayed in a three dimensional virtual mesh, in which independent objects representing television programs are situated. The simplified nature of the three dim... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6816628 | Methods for outlining and filling regions in multi-dimensional arrays A system and method of adding hyperlinked information to a television broadcast. The broadcast material is analyzed and one or more regions within a frame are identified. Additional information can be associated with a region, and can be transmitted in encoded form,... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6801641 | Three dimensional face identification system A three-dimensional (3-D) facial imaging system is disclosed for generating facial images, indexing those images by composite codes and for searching for similar two-dimensional (2-D) facial images. The 3-D images of human faces are generated from a data repository ... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6697081 | Image processing method and device, and storage medium storing a program therefor An image processing method is capable of generating an image containing graphics that are transformed without carrying out multiplying/dividing operations. Image data of a transformed graphic is generated from image data of a source graphic stored in an i... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6694057 | Method and apparatus for processing images with curves A system according to the invention identifies image data points defining a curve. The method comprises the steps of determining a start point and an end point for the curve, establishing a search space that includes at least the start point, the end poin... | 02/17/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6583793 | Method and apparatus for mapping live video on to three dimensional objects A method and apparatus for providing live video on a three-dimensional object begins by receiving a video stream into a capture buffer. The process then continues by mapping, directly from the capture buffer, the video stream onto the three-dimensional ob... | 06/24/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6393143 | Technique for estimating the pose of surface shapes using tripod operators A software procedure, with associated hardware, for estimating the pose of an object from a range image containing the object. A range image is a two dimensional array of numbers which represent the distances from a reference point in the range imaging in... | 05/21/2002 |
