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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7439986 | Pixel filtering using shared filter resource between overlay and texture mapping engines A configurable filter module for providing shared filter resource between an overlay engine and a texture mapping engine of a graphics system. The configurable filter may comprise a plurality of linear blend units each of which receives data input from one of the ov... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7423791 | Color conversion using barycentric projections A method and apparatus for interpolating values for a color space from an input color value. A unit hypercube enclosing the input value is generated based on values from a look up table. A set of boundary conditions are then imposed on the unit hypercube. To perform... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7417639 | Drawing device and information processing apparatus There are provided a drawing device and an information processing apparatus which are capable of reading out texture data from a memory at a high speed. A storage circuit stores respective information items of each of texture pixels constituting the texture data and... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7369124 | Display device and method for driving the same A liquid crystal panel (500) is provided with a connection switching circuit (502) for connecting a video signal line driving circuit (300) to a plurality of video signal lines (Ls). The connection switching circuit (502) includes analog ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365751 | Texture processor A memory write section 2 writes texture data in a number capable of being transferred at a time and written in one address, in one of first through fourth texture memories 1a through 1d in common by single write operation. If the V... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7342594 | Techniques for displaying non-blocking always visible displays and their applications A non-blocking always visible display application is provided to copy and save first pixel values corresponding to a first display screen area, blend the copied first pixel values with second pixel values corresponding to a non-blocking always visible display to gen... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7312800 | Color correction of digital video images using a programmable graphics processing unit A system which utilizes the processing capabilities of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in the graphics controller. Each frame of each video stream or track is decoded into a buffer and a color profile indicating parameters of the color space of the video source i... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7209183 | Method of automatically setting image quality Provided is a method of automatically setting image quality, which maintains a brightness and a contrast of an image regardless of a status of an input signal. The method includes: (a) setting a variable range of brightness and a variable range of contrast; (b) conv... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7207679 | Projection type video display A video signal processing circuit inputs a video signal to perform processing such as frequency conversion as well as processing for generating data representing the APL (Average Picture Level) of a frame video for each frame period. A microcomputer functions as a d... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7158147 | Method and apparatus for pixel filtering using shared filter resource between overlay and texture mapping engines A configurable filter module for providing shared filter resource between an overlay engine and a texture mapping engine of a graphics system. The configurable filter may comprise a plurality of linear blend units each of which receives data input from one of the ov... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7126723 | Producing engraving-style halftone images An image processing scheme that applies engraving-style effects to an image is described. In one embodiment, an initial line pattern is warped to produce a warped line pattern, and an original image is mapped onto the warped line pattern to produce an engraving-styl... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7009622 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program An image processing apparatus includes a command analyzing unit obtaining color information of each endpoint of an object by analyzing a drawing command, a draw processing unit obtaining the color information of successive scanned points inside the object through in... | 03/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6903749 | System and method for image scaling interpolation A sub-system and method to receive input image pixel amplitude data at an input pixel resolution and to output image pixel amplitude data in one or two dimensions at a higher pixel resolution includes a computer system-executable algorithm with user-programmable coe... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6778180 | Video image tracking engine A method and system for processing an image including capturing an image and storing the image as image pixel data. Each image pixel datum is stored in a respective memory location having a corresponding address. Threshold pixel data is selected from the image pixel... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6756993 | Methods and apparatus for rendering images using 3D warping techniques Methods and apparatus for rendering images are presented. The method includes the step of segmenting at least one reference image in a reference image space into a plurality of tiles, each tile defined by a corresponding set of image samples. The connectivity of eac... | 06/29/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6738498 | Method and apparatus for tissue dependent filtering for image magnification A method and apparatus for tissue dependent filtering for digital image magnification includes using bilinear interpolation and digital convolution filters to approximate bicubic interpolation for digital image magnification. A library of set s of representative ima... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6731281 | Method for two-dimensional pixel representation of objects on a display device In a method for two-dimensional pixel representation of an object on a display device, to represent the object surface using polygonal surface elements pixel values are determined for vertices of the surface elements in a central processing unit. The pixel values ar... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6704017 | Method for determining scan direction for three-dimensional terrain rendering A method for rendering a three-dimensional terrain, the method including providing at least one previous display pixel having a previous ray from a point of view through the at least one previous display pixel to a previous terrain unit intersecting an ax... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6642932 | Method and system for interpolation in color images A method is proposed for converting a multicolor image in which each pixel has a color intensity value for only a single color, into a full color image. For pixels for which the intensity value of a first color is known, the intensity value of a second (m... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6556213 | Image display having function of performing interpolation process by which outline is not blurred even when original image is enlarged Disclosed is an image display having the function of performing an interpolating process which does not make the outline blurred even when an original image is enlarged. In the case of interpolating n (n is a natural number) pixels between two neighboring... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6466226 | Method and apparatus for pixel filtering using shared filter resource between overlay and texture mapping engines A configurable filter module for providing shared filter resource between an overlay engine and a texture mapping engine of a graphics system. The configurable filter may comprise a plurality of linear blend units each of which receives data input from on... | 10/15/2002 |
| 5224208 | Gradient calculation for texture mapping A method and apparatus for performing the majority of texture map gradient calculations once per polygon so as to increase processing speed in a graphics system. Texture values are identified for each vertex of an input polygon and are interpolated over t... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5138699 | Hardware utilization of color interpolation capability in a color imaging system A method and means are provided for utilizing, in a color imaging environment, such as ray tracing, display adapter hardware which is capable of interpolating color values for pixels lying in an area between previously color imaged pixels. A computer syst... | 08/11/1992 |
