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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7924284 | Rendering highlighting strokes A process for rendering highlighter ink strokes and non-highlighter ink strokes in a non-rastering environment is described. Strokes may be grouped under a node having a predefined opacity. The strokes inherit the opacity from the node. Additionally, visuals contain... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7884825 | Drawing method, image generating device, and electronic information apparatus An edge function is computed from two vertex coordinates given by a rendering target line. Gradient determination is then performed on the edge function, and the functions representing two shift lines that are formed by translating the rendering target line in the y... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7589731 | Graphics systems and methods Embodiments of graphics systems and methods are disclosed. In one method embodiment, a graphics method comprises receiving information about a line primitive and segmenting the line primitive with a plurality of bounding areas. ... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7551174 | Method and apparatus for triangle rasterization with clipping and wire-frame mode support A low-cost high-speed programmable rasterizer accepting an input set of functionals representing a triangle, clipping planes and a scissoring box, and producing multiple spans per clock cycle as output. A Loader converts the input set from a general form to a specia... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7489314 | Drawing device, drawing method, and storage medium A drawing device which outputs an image datum based on a drawing mode and a command to draw, includes a coordinate conversion unit which converts coordinates in the command to draw in accordance with a designated reduction ratio and a compensation unit which adds a ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7443397 | Method and apparatus for nonlinear coding with 1st order power functions in digital imaging system This invention discloses a transforming apparatus, according to a transforming curve, for transforming a first image to a second image. The first image includes a plurality of pixels. The transforming apparatus includes a differentiating module, a first transforming... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439977 | Method of displaying three-dimensional vector orientations on a two-dimensional surface A method for generating, displaying and manipulating the orientation of three-dimensional vectors on a two-dimensional surface for visualization, statistical analysis and correlation. The method involves collecting vector data, transforming each vector into spherica... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439980 | Image processing method and apparatus In image processing adapted to a display apparatus using a plurality of line buffers for storing data regarding dots aligned on scanning lines on the screen, when a line having a prescribed width and a prescribed length is drawn on the screen, a line drawing range i... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439978 | Information processing system, information processing method, storage medium, and program An information processing system includes a display unit for displaying an image; a drawing unit for drawing a first straight line and a second straight line on the image displayed by the display unit in accordance with an input operation by a user; and a geometrica... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7426455 | Optimal boolean set operation generation among polygon-represented regions Performing Boolean operations among two regions; regions and results represented as vector tuples. Establish indexing cells about regions and classify by type of interaction between regions, e.g., (boundary, boundary). For each (boundary, boundary) cell, define pseu... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7369129 | Automated user interface testing Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for testing user interfaces of software application. The techniques include interacting with a user to identify one or more straight lines in a first rendering of a user interface fo... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7363397 | System and method for DMA controller with multi-dimensional line-walking functionality A system and method for a DMA controller with multi-dimensional line-walking functionality is presented. A processor includes an intelligent DMA controller, which loads a line description that corresponds to a shape or line. The intelligent DMA controller moves thro... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362325 | 2D/3D line rendering using 3D rasterization algorithms This patent discloses a system and method to compile a set of display points that define a two dimensional representation of a straight line graphic object using three dimensional rasterization algorithms. In one embodiment, a three dimensional (3D) graphics acceler... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362339 | Image processing method and apparatus Image processing is performed on a plurality of layers including at least one line display layer or at least one sprite display layer, from which a plurality of attribute data regarding lines or sprites are sequentially read out so as to produce a plurality of displ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352911 | Method for bilateral filtering of digital images A method for processing an image using a bilateral filter. The bilateral filter is reformulated at each pixel location in the image into a sum of the original signal value of a central pixel at said pixel location and a bilateral correction term which is a function ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348996 | Method of and system for pixel sampling A method, system, and article of manufacture for reducing aliasing. A method in accordance with one embodiment sampling a pixel of an image at a plurality of pixel sample points to produce a corresponding plurality of pixel sample values, wherein at least one of the... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343032 | Method and apparatus for automatic and dynamic vessel detection A method and an apparatus automatically detect vessels in a diagnostic image. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing a diagnostic image; detects vessel candidates in the diagnostic image by processing the diagnostic image dat... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7334012 | Reverse division process Described herein is a method that includes storing partial quotients of a continued fraction in a first set of counters, initializing a second sets of counters with counter values, decrementing a target counter in the second set of counters to obtain a decremented c... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333109 | System, method and computer program product for modeling at least one section of a curve A system, method and computer program product are provided for modeling at least one section of a curve. Each section can be modeled by initially providing a pair of positions (fi, fi+1) of the section of the curve including associated directio... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327366 | Navigation apparatus, map data distribution apparatus, map data distribution system and map display method A navigation apparatus includes a route searching unit that searches for a plurality of routes from a departure point to a destination and a map display control unit that displays a map of the plurality of routes searched out by the route searching unit upon a displ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324924 | Curve fitting for signal estimation, prediction, and parametrization A method and system of automatically curve fit data series to generate data signal characterization and prediction is disclosed. The method includes receiving input data including a plurality of data series and set of input parameters. The method also includes prepr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321373 | Method for performing set operations on two or more arbitrary paths to produce a simple outline path A computer implemented method determines an output path for use in rendering one or more graphical objects, the output path being determined from two or more input paths, based on a predetermined set operation, with each of the input paths having at least one edge, ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313764 | Method and apparatus to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows Methods and apparatuses to accelerate scrolling for buffered windows. In one aspect of the invention, a method to scroll a buffered window on a data processing system includes: determining a second region of a second pixel image of a window in a frame buffer, which ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307632 | Font emulation A method and apparatus for Font Emulation are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises stripping a first portion from a first font to emulate a second font upon request for such a second font. In an alternative embodiment, the apparatus comprises a process... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301540 | System and method for rasterization through approximation A system and method for rasterization an image on a display through approximation, wherein the image is decomposed into a plurality of convex polygons, each convex polygon being defined by a plurality of original edges and each original edge being defined by two ver... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295346 | Methods and apparatus for antialiasing using selective implementation of logical and averaging filter operations Methods and apparatus for antialiasing images that contain one or more image objects such as colored text, line art, and graphical objects, such that the edge pixels of an antialiased image object will exhibit relatively uniform values, and the appearance of the ima... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292245 | Method and apparatus for time series graph display A novel technique for annotating a time series graph with embedded tick marks and grid lines and method for selecting and placing such tick marks and lines within such graph. This method allows for the creation of large time series graphs that allow simultaneous per... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7293088 | Tag location, client location, and coverage hole location in a wireless network Determining the location of a radio tag or client station of a wireless network, and the location of coverage holes by receiving from a plurality of wireless stations of the wireless network path loss information of the path loss of one or more location frames recei... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289123 | Simplifying complex characters to maintain legibility Methods, systems, and computer program products for adding hinting instructions to a character in order to improve a character bitmap produced from an outline of the character at a certain size and output resolution when the character outline is scan converted. A ch... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289126 | Gamma-corrected texel storage in a graphics memory Methods, circuits, and apparatus for handling gamma-corrected texels stored in a graphics memory. On-the-fly gamma-to-linear and linear-to-gamma conversions are performed such that gamma-corrected texels are provided to circuits that are able to process them, while ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286515 | Method, apparatus, and software product for detecting rogue access points in a wireless network A method, an apparatus, and a software program to implement a method to detect a rogue access point of a wireless network. The method includes maintaining an AP database that includes information about managed access point (APs) and friendly APs, including the MAC a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7274376 | Special effect device, address signal generating device, address signal generating method and address signal generating program A special effect device by which a new special picture effect is to be implemented in accordance with a read address control system. The device includes an address signal generating unit which generates a readout address signal for picture signals stored in a frame ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268783 | Image alias rejection using shaped statistical filtering Image alias rejection when converting a high resolution rasterized waveform to a lower resolution rasterized waveform for display uses a statistical filter. The statistical filter provides a shaped probability density function either by combining the outputs of mult... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266250 | Methods for generating anti-aliased text and line graphics in compressed document images A method and system for storing and generating anti-aliased text and lineart data from compressed document images files, using a MRC model that represents the image as an ordered set of mask/image pairs at resolutions appropriate to the content of each layer. The me... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260547 | System for aiding to make medical care schedule and/or record, program storage device and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave A system for aiding to make a medical care schedule and/or record is provided with: a plurality of files for respectively including medical care data in correlation with execution timing data; a display controlling device for (i) generating first display data to dis... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256786 | Appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has exact or inexact control points The principles of the present invention relate to appropriately rendering a graphical object when a corresponding outline has exact or inexact control points. Based on the positions of control points on an outline it is calculated, that between a first parent contro... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7239735 | Pattern inspection method and pattern inspection device In this pattern inspection device, the optical scanning section scans the inspected pattern using a laser beam. A photoelectric image processing section generates an image of the inspected pattern. A reference image generation section calculates the gray level of ea... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239312 | Method, apparatus and program for processing a three-dimensional image An image processing apparatus and an image processing method reconstruct a three-dimensional image of an object which expresses a texture, glossiness, and three-dimensionality with realism. The image processing apparatus produces, from a physical object, data repres... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239740 | Image processing apparatus and method, medium storing program for image processing, and inspection apparatus In a gray level image, the direction and the magnitude of a level gradient are found for each of pixels. With respect to the pixel having a level gradient whose magnitude exceeds a predetermined value, a line segment having a predetermined length is drawn in the dir... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233413 | Gamut description and visualization This invention pertains to a computer-implemented method and program for the comparison of color gamuts. Using first and second collections of sample color points respective hulls are created in a color space. The set of all of the points disposed on the surf... | 06/19/2007 |
