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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7369142 | Image-displaying apparatus and method for obtaining pixel data therefor A receiver measures strength of magnetic field generated by a transmitter and supplies it to a computer. The computer detects a viewpoint of a viewer based on the strength. The computer sets each pixel-displaying element arranged on the display portion of image disp... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362335 | System and method for image-based rendering with object proxies A system and method for rendering with an object proxy. In one embodiment, a method includes forming a set of view textures corresponding to a set of viewing directions; selecting a viewing direction for rendering; selecting at least two view textures from the forme... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7334195 | System and process for presenting search results in a histogram/cluster format A user interface system and process for graphically displaying the results of a standard search, such as a database search, to a user on a display device via an interactive search results window in which the user views and filters search results items. These results... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321370 | Method and apparatus for collating object An object collation method comprising a registration procedure for registering the registered data of a registered object in a database, and a collation procedure for collating the input image of a target object with the registered data. The registration procedure i... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7305127 | Detection and manipulation of shadows in an image or series of images Systems, methods, and computer program products that identify and allow manipulation of shadows in a still frame (photo mode), or series of frames (movie mode). Manipulation of shadows includes such things as adjustment of shadow boundaries, softening of shadow boun... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302473 | Internet information displaying apparatus and internet information displaying method An Internet information displaying apparatus comprising character signal generating means for generating a character signal and displaying it on the screen of the displaying means, and character signal generation controlling means for detecting the state of transmis... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7259752 | Method and system for editing electronic ink A computer-implemented method and system for erasing and editing an electronic document. A goal for computing devices that support the use of a stylus that can record handwriting strokes and present them in an electronic document is to present electronic ink that be... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7239331 | Method and apparatus for correction of perspective distortion Perspective distortion in an imaged scene is corrected by identifying a group of points in the imaged scene such that the group of points define a shape. Two vanishing points are determined based on the group of points in the imaged scene. The process determines a f... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7188309 | Resolving document object collisions Collisions between document objects on a document page are resolved. A collision is identified and a two-dimension resolution of the collision is provided by moving the object the shortest distance from a pre-collision location that would avoid the collision. The pr... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7185278 | Separating and moving document objects using the movement of a wiper bar A tool is provided for managing the available space in an electronic document. The tool can be used to move document objects and/or expand the boundaries or margins of a page to enable the addition or expansion of one or more document objects. The tool also can be u... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7174042 | System and method for automatically recognizing electronic handwriting in an electronic document and converting to text A user can enter handwritten electronic ink into a writing guide on an electronic page of an electronic tablet. An ink processing module can display the handwritten electronic ink as it is rendered on the electronic page by the user. Upon the occurrence of a predefi... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7098921 | Method, system and computer program product for efficiently utilizing limited resources in a graphics device A memory management system provides microcode instructions that are divided into multiple tuned phases and stored as separate modules inside a phase code depository. A microcode manager, containing a mode detector, sequence identifier, code loader, drawing data proc... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7079156 | Method and system for implementing multiple high precision and low precision interpolators for a graphics pipeline A rasterizer stage configured to implement multiple interpolators for graphics pipeline. The rasterizer stage includes a plurality of simultaneously operable low precision interpolators for computing a first set of pixel parameters for pixels of a geometric primitiv... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7000735 | Method and system for the presentation of multimedia contents in elevator installations A system presents multimedia contents in elevator installations. At least one user profile with multimedia contents is provided for an associated elevator user. When the user is identified in proximity to the elevator system, the multimedia contents carried in his u... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6947611 | System, method and program for perspective projection image creation, and recording medium storing the same program A perspective projection image creation system of the present invention includes: an optical system including a hyperboloidal mirror; an imaging section receiving light so as to create input image data; an image transformation section transforming input image data o... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6930676 | Anti motion blur display A method, a circuit arrangement and a display device which suppresses motion blur due to motion integration carried out along a motion trajectory on the image data, which occurs in matrix type displays in which a motion trajectory is integrated by the viewer and/or ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6781594 | Method for computing the intensity of specularly reflected light The intensity of specularly reflected light from an illuminated object is represented by an algebraic expression including multiplication, addition, and subtraction operations. The algebraic expression is used in an illumination model, where the illumination model d... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6756989 | Method, system, and computer program product for filtering a texture applied to a surface of a computer generated object A method, system, and computer program product for filtering textures applied to a surface of a computer generated object permits an application program running on a computer system to significantly increase the graphics capabilities and performance of the computer.... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6710780 | Image processing method for patching pixels of digital image representation An image processing method for patching pixels of a digital image representation shown on a screen of a computer, the method comprising the steps of reading a predetermined area to be patched on a digital image representation selected by a patch object and values of... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6639598 | Method and apparatus for effective level of detail selection Method and apparatus for rendering texture to an object to be displayed on a pixel screen display. This technique makes use of linear interpolation between perspectively correct texture address to calculate rates of change of individual texture addresses ... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6618049 | Method and apparatus for preparing a perspective view of an approximately spherical surface portion A computer system (10) can prepare and present on a display (22) a two-dimensional image that includes a perspective view, from a selected eyepoint (71, 152), of an object (23) which is a three-dimensional object of an approximately spherical shape, such ... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6480632 | Method and apparatus to interpolate video frames A method comprises, for a plurality of interpolated pixels in an interpolated video frame, classifying an interpolated pixel of the plurality as one of stationary, moving, covered, and uncovered, and then setting components of the interpolated pixel to co... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6438275 | Method for motion compensated frame rate upsampling based on piecewise affine warping Interpolation of a new frame between a previous frame and a current frame of a video stream by motion compensated frame rate upsampling. The interpolation method includes identifying nodes and edges of objects such as triangles present in the previous fra... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6421056 | Three-dimensional image processing apparatus A three-dimension image processing apparatus includes a CPU. When the CPU detects by collision determination that another object, e.g., a wall, is existent between an operable object and a camera, it calculates such a moving angle of the camera that an ey... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6351268 | Method and apparatus for displaying three-dimensional images Three dimensional images are generated from a conventional television broadcast signal to which has been added a low bandwidth depth information component. An array of microlenses is placed before the display screen and the microlens array is illuminated ... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6061084 | Displayer and a method for displaying A displayer comprises a sensor mechanism for identifying where N different eyes of V viewers are in space, where N is greater than equal to 2 and is an integer and V is greater than or equal to 1 and is an integer. The displayer comprises a displaying mec... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6054969 | Three-dimensional image display system A three-dimensional image display system, based on a novel depth concept referred to as Double-D-Depth, includes a first display device (3) and at least a second display device (4) which, viewed along the system axis (9-91), are offset with respect to eac... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6034696 | Source relative warping for corner pinning A source relative warping technique for corner pinning calculates a final projection matrix representing a desired video effect. At least three non-collinear points are specified in an input video signal representing an image in a source plane. One or mor... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6031519 | Holographic direct manipulation interface A holographic direct manipulation interface includes detecting means, holographic display means and processing means to enable a user to input commands to a computer and display the desired output. A CPU stores data that enables a holographic display unit... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5914724 | Lighting unit for a three-dimensional graphics accelerator with improved handling of incoming color values A lighting unit which exhibits improved handling of incoming color values corresponding to a polygon. The lighting unit includes an input buffer for storing a plurality of color values, a mode register including a color mode field specifying whether the p... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5805782 | Method and apparatus for projective texture mapping rendered from arbitrarily positioned and oriented light source A method and apparatus for generating interactive computer graphics images using projective texture mapping. The projective texture mapping of the present invention involves the mapping of a texture map onto a scene being rendered from the perspective of ... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5771046 | Image processing system and method including perspective transformation of three-dimensional objects utilizing clipping plane positions Perspective transformation is performed on X, Y, Z coordinate data Xe, Ye and Ze in a view volume in a viewpoint coordinate system so as to obtain X, Y, Z coordinate data Xs, Ys and Zs in a screen coordinate system. The view volume being defined by a fron... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5706415 | Method and apparatus for distributed interpolation of pixel shading parameter values A method and apparatus for generating pixel shading values in a computer controlled display system. Generally, the apparatus is embodied in a rendering pipeline, where each stage of the pipeline performs a particular pixels shading function, so that pixel... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5339391 | Computer display unit with attribute enhanced scroll bar An attribute-enhanced scroll bar is graphically displayed. A selected portion of a stored data file, for example a document, is displayed in a display field, and a scroll bar field including a scroll bar is used to indicate the position of the displayed p... | 08/16/1994 |
| 4517558 | Three dimensional video screen display effect A three dimensional visual effect of rotating mechanical reels is given to a two dimensional display on a video screen by using a film having a continuous tone gradient from dark to light, the darkest portions extending along the upper and lower edges of ... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4467412 | Slave processor with clock controlled by internal ROM & master processor A graphical display of a video game is provided with "first person views" of game play, by generation of simulated three-dimensional perspectives. A slave computational unit relieves a master microprocessor of arithmetic and logical operations necessary f... | 08/21/1984 |
