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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8125495 | Displaying user interface elements having transparent effects Embodiments are configured to provide information for display. Various embodiments include processing functionality that can be used to efficiently process pixel data associated with video, graphical, and other information. The functionality can be used in conjuncti... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8035653 | Dynamically adjustable elements of an on-screen display A system for generating an on-screen display (OSD) is described. The on-screen display, which has a semitransparent background area, is overlaid on top of an image. The data which make up this image are stored in a buffer. An accumulator, connected to the buffer, is... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8013870 | Image masks generated from local color models Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, feature receiving an image mask where the image mask identifies a first opacity value of pixels in a raster image. The first opacity value ranges between a value representing foreground and a valu... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7999824 | Analyzing alpha values for flicker filtering A flicker filter is adjusted according to degree of alpha blending performed on a display signal. For some weakly showing graphics images, a lower flicker filter level may be implemented or the flicker filter may be turned off. A threshold for turning off the flicke... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7982746 | Simplification of alpha compositing in the presence of transfer functions A method determines a color at a plurality of locations in a region of overlap of a first graphic element and a second graphic element, with each graphic element having a color value and a partial opacity value defined at each location. The method includes the steps... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978204 | Transparency-conserving system, method and computer program product to generate and blend images A1A system embodying the invention includes a controlling device and a set of rendering devices, with the effect that the controlling device can distribute a set of objects to the rendering devices. Each rendering device computes a (2D) image in response to the obje... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7965299 | Implementing compositing operations on images In a method of compositing graphic elements in a pixel-based renderer, a first graphic element is received having a first color and a first opacity, and a second graphic element is received having a second color and a second opacity. A blend output is obtained from ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7956869 | Proximity based transparency of windows aiding in obscured window selection A cursor location associated with a user controlled cursor is obtained. For each of a plurality of windows, a respective distance to the user controlled cursor is determined based at least in part on the cursor location. A transparency value for each of the pluralit... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7928992 | System and method for transparent object rendering The subject application is directed to a system and method for transparent object rendering. An electronic document, inclusive of a plurality of objects, is first received. The electronic document is then parsed so as to generate a transparency table. The generated ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7880747 | Blend optimizations that are conformant to floating-point rules A technique for handling floating-point special values, e.g., Infinity, NaN, −Zero, and denorms, during blend operations is provided so that blend operations on fragment color values that contain special values can be performed in compliance with special value han... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7868900 | Methods for suppression of items and areas of interest during visualization A method for generating an image includes accessing data of a scan of an object, using at least one characteristic of the accessed data to delineate at least one item of interest in the data and generating a 3D visualization image wherein transparency levels for at ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864190 | Methods and apparatus for encoding and decoding images Methods and apparatus for generating images, compressing image data, decompressing image data, and processing the decompressed image data so that it can be used by a rendering circuit of a device, e.g., a set top box, are described. Images are generated in the nativ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7839416 | Virtual coatings application system A virtual coatings application system has several features to enhance the realism of simulated spray painting. The system generally includes a display screen on which is defined a virtual surface (such as a truck door) that is intended to be virtually painted or coa... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7839417 | Virtual coatings application system A virtual coatings application system has several features to enhance the realism of simulated spray painting. The system generally includes a display screen on which is defined a virtual surface (such as a truck door) that is intended to be virtually painted or coa... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7834886 | Methods and apparatus for dynamic correction of data for non-uniformity Methods and apparatus for dynamic correction of data for non-uniformity are disclosed. Feature data are extracted from input video data that include a subject shot against a backing area in a solid color. The feature data may describe characteristics of non-uniformi... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7817162 | Virtual blasting system for removal of coating and/or rust from a virtual surface A computer simulation and virtual reality system simulates the use of a blasting nozzle to remove one or more coatings and/or rust from a virtual surface. The user operates an electronic controller in the form of a blasting nozzle that outputs a signal indicating wh... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7808509 | Apparatus and methods for stenciling an image The invention provides methods of protecting selected regions of an image from subsequent modification during the operation of a graphics application. The methods allow a user to select a region of an image to protect, and to assign a level of protection to the sele... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7777758 | Automatic trapping of drop shadows Methods, program products and systems for automatically trapping drop shadows. For at least one segment incident to an atomic region which includes a drop shadow, and for each side of the segment, determining a first flattened color of the side's incident atomic reg... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7750922 | Transparency group computation on a graphics processing unit A new transparency group may be rendered and blended with other, previously rendered, transparency groups, by using the Porter-Duff algebra available on the GPU even though the transparency groups include pre-multiplied color and alpha information. Additionally, the... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7701463 | Accelerated rendering of images with transparent pixels using a spatial index A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for accelerated rendering of images with transparent pixels using a spatial index. A determination is made whether anything exists behind an object in an image. If not, then transparent pixels within the object are con... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7692664 | Closed form method and system for matting a foreground object in an image having a background In a method and system for matting a foreground object F having an opacity α constrained by associating a characteristic with selected pixels in an image having a background B, weights are determined for all edges of neighboring pixels for the image and used to bui... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7629981 | System and method for using computer graphics techniques to gather histogram data A mechanism for gathering information from one or more detectors to aid in a determination of a current location of one or more entities is provided. Embodiments of the present invention perform these tasks by plotting data provided by the detectors onto a grid corr... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7629982 | Optimized alpha blend for anti-aliased render Circuits, methods, and apparatus that reduce the amount of data transferred between a graphics processor integrated circuit and graphics memory. Various embodiments of the present invention further improve the efficiency of blenders that are included on a graphics p... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7623137 | Successive-convolution-compositing technique for rendering translucent surfaces One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that uses a successive-convolution technique to render a set of visible sprites which are visible through a translucent surface. During operation, the system first initializes a translucent light map to a bac... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7593020 | Image editing using image-wide matting An image editing technique employing a layered representation of the image is presented. The image representation includes a main pixel color layer, a secondary pixel color layer, an alpha layer and a noise layer. Generally, the pixel values of one or more pixel loc... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7554554 | Rendering apparatus A rendering apparatus includes a low-speed frame buffer, and a first temporary memory and a second temporary memory with high-speed and small capacities. A first/second temporary memory rendering unit blends an image data already stored in the first/second temporary... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7538775 | Storage medium storing game program and game apparatus A relative position of each object with respect to a point of view is changed by changing at least one of information indicating a position of the point of view and information indicating a position of the object, the pieces of information being stored in a storage ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7479967 | System for combining virtual and real-time environments The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for combining virtual reality and real-time environment. The present invention provides a system that combines captured real-time video data and real-time 3D environment rendering to create a fused (combined... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7479968 | Semi-transparent highlighting of selected objects in electronic documents Highlighting selected objects in an electronic document is provided in a manner such that a highlighted object maintains coloring and formatting properties to allow for a maintenance of visual fidelity with a pre-highlighted view of the highlighted object and that a... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7432937 | System and method for concave polygon rasterization An apparatus and method to render concave polygons. In some embodiments, the method includes setting an alpha buffer of a hardware rasterizer to zero, generating an alpha mask by rendering the concave polygon as a plurality of convex polygons of connected vertices, ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7429993 | Method and system for presenting functionally-transparent, unobtrusive on-screen windows Selected visual content is unobtrusively presented on a computing system display, so as not to obscure or prevent access to underlying content. The selected visual content may be designated from among various types of visual content by a user or by a program. The se... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428711 | Glow highlighting as an ink attribute Methods for rendering electronic ink with highlighting attributes include: (a) receiving data representing at least one electronic ink stroke including a highlighting attribute; (b) rendering a first highlighting stroke in a first dimension and in a first highlighti... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7420569 | Adaptive pixel-based blending method and system An adaptive pixel-based blending method and system of a video processing system including steps of acquiring a first pixel value in accordance with a first index value, acquiring a first blending factor in accordance with the parts of the first pixel value, calculat... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7417647 | Making an overlay image edge artifact less conspicuous The invention is directed, in preferred embodiments, to method and apparatus for storing overlay pixels of a scaled overlay image over background pixels of a background image. The overlay and background pixels being defined by at least a luminance component and a co... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414632 | Multi-pass 4:2:0 subpicture blending A circuit for blending video signals and subpicture signals is provided. The circuit includes a palette to output at least one subpicture value based on a palette index. The circuit also includes an alpha-blend unit coupled to the subpicture palette to blend a set o... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7403209 | Rendering images containing video A video node for use in rendering one or more video frames of a video stream. The video node is represented by a compositing tree (2100). The compositing tree (2100) comprises at least one image primitive node (2140) representing one or more vid... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400763 | Smart erasure brush Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for erasing in a digital image. A method includes identifying a plurality of tip regions on the image, establishing an erasure color, and completely erasing pixels in the tip region that have a color matchi... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7388589 | System for and method of performing an opacity calculation in a 3D graphics system A system, device and method are disclosed for predicting the opacity of primitives used to produce an image using one or more equations, prior to producing an image. More specifically, the present invention relates to a 3D device adapted to produce an image comprisi... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7382378 | Apparatus and methods for stenciling an image The invention provides methods of protecting selected regions of an image from subsequent modification during the operation of a graphics application. The methods allow a user to select a region of an image to protect, and to assign a level of protection to the sele... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7369139 | Background rendering of images An apparatus includes a rendering engine to render a foreground of an image. The apparatus also includes a logic, separate from the rendering engine, to merge at least one background color with the foreground of the image. ... | 05/06/2008 |
