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| 8115768 | Methods and system for communication and displaying points-of-interest A method for displaying point-of-interest coordinate locations in perspective images and for coordinate-based information transfer between perspective images on different platforms includes providing a shared reference image of a region overlapping the field of view... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106906 | Optical system effects for computer graphics Users define the aperture shape and brightness characteristics of a virtual lens system to generate optical system effects in computer graphics images. An image sample point is associated with a aperture point within the aperture. The location of the aperture point ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102395 | Display apparatus, image processing apparatus and image processing method, imaging apparatus, and program A system and method displays a realistic image that allows a user to readily grasp his/her own positional relationship and also to experience a sense of presence. An outer dome screen is disposed so as to surround a user, and an immersion image such as the scenery o... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094153 | Game apparatus, storage medium storing a game program, and game controlling method A game apparatus includes a first LCD and a second LCD, and on the first LCD, a two-dimensional game screen including objects positioned in a two-dimensional coordinate is displayed. When a two-dimensional coordinate of a specific object out of the objects positione... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085268 | Techniques for drawing geodetic polygons Techniques in a data processor for drawing on a map a geodetic polygon that straddles a splitting meridian include, in one embodiment, maintaining data that represents the geodetic polygon, the data comprising a set of geographic coordinates; transforming the set of... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081185 | Information processing apparatus and information processing method Appearance parameters for each object are set by pressing an appearance parameter setting button (208) for each object ID selected by a body object selection button (207). Upon generation of a two-dimensional image for pseudo three-dimensional presenta... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072455 | Virtual trace-multiple view modeling system and method A system for generating two-dimensional views of a three-dimensional model is provided. The system includes an active building model system generating one or more user-selected two-dimensional views of a three-dimensional building model. A floor plan view location s... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8040352 | Adaptive image interpolation for volume rendering Sampling frequency of a ray casting for generating a projection image is varied in dependence of information derived from a 3D volume data during rendering. Furthermore, an interpolation is performed for skipped pixels for which no ray casting was performed in the p... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031194 | Intelligent configurable graphics bandwidth modulator An apparatus and method to dynamically regulate system bandwidth in a graphics system includes receiving vertex data from an application by way of an application programming interface. The rate that the vertex data is received from the application is then determined... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8022951 | Node structure for representing 3-dimensional objects using depth image A family of node structures for representing 3-dimensional objects using depth image are provided. These node structures can be adopted into MPEG-4 AFX for conventional polygonal 3D representations. Main formats of the family are DepthImage, PointTexture and OctreeI... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8004524 | Method for displaying 3D structures in 2D projection images The invention relates to a method for displaying 3D structures in 2D projection images, with which the 3D structures are present as individual volumetric gray scale values, such as are supplied in particular as a result of volumetric scans with a number of sectional... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7986322 | Parallax compensation Parallax compensation is described, including magnifying a portion of a region of a display using a lens, receiving a request to move the lens in a direction, and moving the portion relative to the lens in the direction in response to the request to move the lens to... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7982735 | Method, apparatus, and medium for three-dimensionally transforming and visualizing two-dimensional flyover data in three-dimensional graphics environment An apparatus for three-dimensionally visualizing two-dimensional flyover data in a three-dimensional graphics environment includes an overlapped region separation unit, a triangulation unit, a height coordinate addition unit, and a visualization unit. The division l... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7944444 | 3D image processing apparatus and method A three-dimensional (3D) image processing apparatus and method are provided for use with a 3D image divided into a left-eye image and a right-eye image. The apparatus includes a disparity estimation unit estimating disparities between the left-eye image and the righ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7936354 | Virtual trace-multiple view modeling system and method A system for generating two-dimensional views of a three-dimensional model is provided. The system includes an active building model system generating one or more user-selected two-dimensional views of a three-dimensional building model. A floor plan view location s... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7916139 | Imaging volume data A method and apparatus for generating a two-dimensional output image of a slab multi-planar reformatting (MPR) volume data set from a selectable view point and view direction is described. The method comprises factorizing a view transform matrix into an intermediate... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7884822 | Game apparatus, storage medium storing a game program, and game controlling method A game apparatus includes a first LCD and a second LCD, and on the first LCD, a two-dimensional game screen including objects positioned in a two-dimensional coordinate is displayed. When a two-dimensional coordinate of a specific object out of the objects positione... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7884823 | Three dimensional rendering of display information using viewer eye coordinates Game data is rendered in three dimensions in the GPU of a game console. A left camera view and a right camera view are generated from a single camera view. The left and right camera positions are derived as an offset from a default camera. The focal distance of the ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7880739 | Virtual window with simulated parallax and field of view change A system and method for simulating to one or more individual observers a view through a window using a display screen comprising a storage device containing in electronic form one or more images of a scene selected from the group consisting of one or more images of ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7852336 | Dynamic determination of optimal spatial index mapping to processor thread resources By mapping leaf nodes of a spatial index to processing elements, efficient distribution of workload in an image processing system may be achieved. In addition, processing elements may use a thread table to redistribute workload from processing elements which are exp... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7839405 | Apparatus, method, and program for projection of 3D spatial image into planar images using visual points Disclosed herein is a display control apparatus which may include an image conversion unit, a display unit, a point specifying unit, and a visual-point position setting unit. ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7808502 | Perspective editing tools for 2-D images Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products, to provide an image editing application including a perspective editing tool for performing edits in regions of an image having perspective. The perspective editing tool enables the user to iden... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7804500 | Methods of displaying volumetric 3D images This invention describes methods of displaying both physiological and psychological depth cues in a volumetric image display. This added psychological visual depth can display a background image of infinite depth. The basic concept is to combine a skewed coordinate ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7796134 | Multi-plane horizontal perspective display The present invention multi-plane display system discloses a three dimension display system comprising at least two display surfaces, one of which displaying a three dimensional horizontal perspective images. Further, the display surfaces can have a curvilinear blen... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7782319 | Three-dimensional orientation indicator and controller A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to control a three-dimensional scene view. A three-dimensional (3D) scene having one or more three-dimensional objects is displayed. A 3D representation of a coordinate system of the scene is displa... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7782320 | Information processing method and information processing apparatus A virtual space image including a feature point is generated by executing software which generates a virtual space image on the basis of a viewpoint and receives a variation upon changing the position and orientation of the viewpoint. The position and orientation of... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7750907 | Method and apparatus for generating on-screen display using 3D graphics A method and a system are provided for generating an on-screen display using 3D graphics in devices without a high quality 3D graphics accelerator. 3D graphic images obtained from a 3D graphic image generator are mapped to 2D graphic images, and the mapped 2D graphi... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7737976 | Method and system for displaying stereoscopic detail-in-context presentations A method for generating a stereoscopic presentation of a region-of-interest in a monoscopic information representation. The method includes the steps of: (a) selecting first and second viewpoints for the region-of-interest; (b) creating a lens surface having a prede... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7733344 | Method, medium and apparatus rendering 3D graphic data using point interpolation A method and apparatus for rendering 3D graphic data is provided. The 3D graphic data is projected onto a 2D screen and points are interpolated and rendered, thereby quickly processing the 3D graphic data. ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7728835 | Method and apparatus for transferring an angle-angle vision graph to a three dimensional surface A computer aided design system accurately determines the location, shape, and dimensions of a transparency that provides a field of view meeting a clear view area specified by a two dimensional polar vision plot. The computer aided design system projects points on t... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7714860 | Method and system for converting engineering data into 3D modeling data A system and method for converting data generated in an computer engineering design software component to an alternate format usable by a variety of alternate software components is provided. Engineering data from a project having a plurality of objects is provided.... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7714859 | Occlusion reduction and magnification for multidimensional data presentations A method in a computer system for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in an original image for display on a display screen, the original image being a collection of polygons having polygons defined by three or more shared edges joined at vertex points,... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7688321 | Perspective editing tools for 2-D images Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products, to provide an image editing application including a perspective editing tool for performing edits in regions of an image having perspective. The perspective editing tool enables the user to iden... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7667699 | Fast rendering of pyramid lens distorted raster images A method for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in an information representation including the steps of: selecting a viewpoint for the region-of-interest; creating a lens surface for the region-of-interest; the lens surface having a focal region and a... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7667700 | System and method for navigating operating in a virtual environment The present invention relates to a system, method and computer program product for navigating within a virtual environment (VE). More specifically, the present invention relates to navigating large distances in a VE, without becoming disoriented and without becoming... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7643028 | Image generation program product and image generation device This program product causes a computer to function as the respective units for (a) arranging a model configured by intersecting a plurality of plate-shaped polygons in a virtual space, (b) calculating a parameter dependent on an angle formed from a first vector set ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7639253 | System and method for automatic 3D scan data alignment An automated mechanism that identifies and defines a global coordinate system that is most appropriate for a collection of raw 3D scan data used to form a mesh model is discussed. More specifically, a coordinate system is identified that is able to minimize the tota... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7619626 | Mapping images from one or more sources into an image for display The present invention provides systems and methods that provide images of an environment to the viewpoint of a display. The systems and methods define a mapping surface at a distance from the image source and display that approximates the environment within the fiel... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7586489 | Method of generating surface defined by boundary of three-dimensional point cloud Disclosed is a method of generating a three-dimensional (3D) surface defined by a boundary of a 3D point cloud. The method comprises generating density and depth maps from the 3D point cloud, constructing a 2D mesh from the depth and density maps, transforming the 2... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7583265 | Image display method and device, image display system, server, program, and recording medium An image display method for displaying, after imaging, a plurality of image data each relating to attribute data, includes: disposing a reference image object for indication of each of the plurality of image data at a position based on any one of the corresponding a... | 09/01/2009 |
