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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8120620 | Graphics system and drawing method thereof A graphics system including: a register storing data of a clipping frame of a frame buffer; a register storing offset data of a figure; a register storing data of a clipping frame of a stencil buffer that is larger than the clipping frame of the frame buffer and sto... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115783 | Methods of and apparatus for processing computer graphics In a graphics processing system, the left, right, top and bottom edge planes for the purposes of clipping are set to the maximum values that can be represented using floating-point format numbers, vertex positions are snapped to a grid of predefined vertex positions... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111266 | Display device and method for editing images A method for editing image is provided. The method includes steps of: reading a to-be-displayed image; determining whether the display ratio of the image is with the same as the aspect of the display unit; editing the image if the display ratio of the image is not w... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8068120 | Guard band clipping systems and methods The present disclosure provides embodiments of guard band clipping systems and methods. One guard band clipping system embodiment, among others, includes a vertex processor configured to convert transformed vertex data to integer screen space data and pass the trans... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8054319 | Method and apparatus for multiscreen management for multiple screen configuration The present invention performs multiscreen configuration and multiscreen management by using a plurality of screens and a plurality of methods in order to represent a plurality of service contents. In accordance with a multiscreen configuration method of the present... | 11/08/2011 |
| 7961200 | Image cropping system and method Electronic document design systems and methods allowing a user engaged in customizing an electronic product to re-crop product images in a manner that is compatible with the product layout. Upon selection of an image area in the product design, the user can choose t... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7924294 | Polygon trimming using a modified azimuthal map projection In one embodiment, a system, method and computer readable media are disclosed for trimming geographic data that defines polygons to boundaries of a quadrangle. The geographic data is converted to map coordinates in a novel azimuthal map projection. Each map projecte... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7808512 | Bounding region accumulation for graphics rendering In a raster unit of a graphics processor, a method for bounding region accumulation for graphics rendering. The method includes receiving a plurality of graphics primitives for rasterization in a raster stage of a graphics processor and rasterizing the graphics prim... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7746355 | Method for distributed clipping outside of view volume A distributed clipping scheme is provided, view frustum culling is distributed in several places in a graphics processing pipeline to simplify hardware implementation and improve performance. In general, many 3D objects are outside viewing frustum. In one embodiment... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7742061 | Method and related apparatus for image processing Method and related apparatus for image processing. When projecting a polygonal object in three-dimensional space onto a two-dimensional screen according to a viewing range, faces of the object which intersect boundaries of the viewing range are clipped to form clipp... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7719545 | System and method for converting a vertex program to a binary format capable of being executed by a hardware graphics pipeline A system, method and computer program product are provided for programmable vertex processing. Initially, a vertex program is identified including branch labels and instruction sequences with branch commands. The vertex program is then converted to a binary format c... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7714877 | Apparatus, system, and method for determining clipping distances An apparatus, system, and method for determining clipping distances are described. In one embodiment, a graphics processing apparatus includes a clipping unit and an instruction memory connected to the clipping unit. The instruction memory includes a clipping progra... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7703011 | Digital content creation system, digital content creation method, and program product A digital content creation device includes a processor and a storage device. The storage device stores a content database including digital content sets. The processor selects a target digital content set for processing; determines, based on a template, a layout for... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7679624 | Moving computer displayable content into a preferred user interactive focus area A system for displaying content, such as a computer's displayed desktop, to a user such that remote content may be easily accessed, is presented. An exemplary display system includes a preferred interaction area through which the user interacts with the displayed co... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7675528 | Image cropping system and method Electronic document design systems and methods allowing a user engaged in customizing an electronic product to re-crop product images in a manner that is compatible with the product layout. Upon selection of an image area in the product design, the user can choose t... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7656418 | User control of 3d volume plane crop A method for interactive adjustment of a 3D ultrasound image of an object includes acquiring a loop of 3D image data of the object, and providing a 3D image of the object on a display for user viewing. The method also includes activating a crop mode via a user inter... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7616218 | Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives are described. In one embodiment, a clipping module includes a clipping engine and a clipping controller connected to the clipping engine. The clipping controller is configured to determine which edges o... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7551183 | Clipping and scissoring technique A method is described that involves redefining a primitive surface to create a redefined primitive surface. The redefining involves clipping a first edge of the primitive surface to a second edge of a displayable screen area. The first edge of the primitive surface ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7511719 | Method, system, and computer product for performing trapezoidal reduction of polygons and interrupted polygons A method, system, and computer program product for rendering an image to available display area based on parameters of one or more unusable display areas. The method includes determining one or more trapezoids for defining the available display area based on the par... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7505047 | Vehicle periphery viewing apparatus A vehicle periphery viewing apparatus for capturing a vehicle-peripheral image includes: an image capturing device disposed on predetermined position; a display device disposed within the vehicle; and an image processing device performing an image division of the or... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7489321 | Using detail-in-context lenses for accurate digital image cropping and measurement A method for cropping a computer generated original image on a display, comprising the steps of: adjusting a user-selected movable boundary on the original image to define a cropped image within the boundary, the boundary defined by two or more points on the origina... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7466322 | Clipping graphics primitives to the w=0 plane Vertices defining a graphics primitive are converted into homogeneous space and clipped against a single clipping plane, the w=0 plane, to produce a clipped graphics primitive having vertices including w coordinates that are greater than or equal to zero. Rasterizin... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7463271 | Optimized access for drawing operations Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention improve drawing operations for drawing an object that has object information onto a background image, which has background image information, already displayed on a display device. A... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7438426 | Projection display apparatus and digital zooming method thereof A projection display apparatus and digital zooming method thereof is disclosed. The projection display apparatus receives a first image and includes a control unit, an image processor, an image scaler, a projection lens and a display unit. The control unit is for ca... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439988 | Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives with respect to a clipping plane Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives are described. In one embodiment, a clipping module includes a mapping unit and a clipping engine that is connected to the mapping unit. The mapping unit is configured to map a graphics primitive onto a ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437687 | Cellular telephone set, operation control method thereof and program therefor A cellular telephone set can simplify operation when a picture (picture memorandum) picked-up as memorandum is registered in a memory and reproduced. Upon initial registration of an image to a memory for the picture memorandum, a picture memorandum icon is generated... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436414 | Method for accelerated determination of occlusion between polygons The invention describes a method and system for use in occlusion culling of polygons in an interactive environment, such as a game. The invention employs a boundary box to simplify the testing of occludee polygons. Occluders and occludees are also transformed into n... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432983 | Moving-picture processing method and moving-picture processing apparatus with metadata processing A moving-picture processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire metadata including information about each temporal region in an input moving picture with a plurality of temporal regions, a decision unit configured to determine a cutout regio... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7420572 | Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives with accelerated context switching An apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives are described. In one embodiment, a graphics processing apparatus includes a clipping unit that is configured to issue an initial set of outputs based on execution of a set of clipping operations. The... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418131 | Image-capturing device and method for removing strangers from an image An image-capturing device and method for removing strangers from an image are described. First, a first image is input. Then, a control module determines if an unwanted object processing step is needed, and obtains a result. If the result is no, the first image is d... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414635 | Optimized primitive filler The optimized primitive filler is used in a computer system, such as a computer system that displays graphic images. A first step of the method it is determined if a primitive is totally outside a predetermined screen region or at least partially within the predeter... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7400325 | Culling before setup in viewport and culling unit The VPC unit and setup unit of a graphics processing subsystem perform culling operations. The VPC unit performs culling operations on geometric primitives falling within a specific criteria, such as having a property within of a numerical range limit. This limit re... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7388582 | System and method for graphics culling A method is disclosed for culling an object database in a graphics processing system. In one embodiment, the method comprises encoding per-object parameters and culling parameters. The per-object parameters are encoded in texture format thereby creating at least one... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386862 | Process for allowing Applets to be resized independently from the WEB/HTML page they were created The present invention provides for a method for allowing Applets to be resized independently from the WEB/HTML page they were created. The Applet is made “detachable”, from a user's point of view, from the WEB/HTML page it was initially created. Pushing a “det... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382377 | Render to texture cull Method and apparatus for processing one or more fragment data. In one embodiment, the method includes processing one or more fragment data to generate one or more texture map addresses for one or more texels, determining relevance information that correspond to the ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7362368 | Perfecting the optics within a digital image acquisition device using face detection Within a digital acquisition device, acquisition parameters of a digital image are perfected as part of an image capture process using face detection within said captured image to achieve one or more desired image acquisition parameters. Default values are determine... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362338 | Controllable pixel border for improved viewability of a display device A display device having a display matrix (m+2x by n+2x) including an active, e.g., controllable, pixel border located around the edge locations of a frame buffer matrix for improved character viewability. The border can be several pixels wide, e.g., 1 | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359530 | Object-based raster trapping Trapping graphics during pre-press workflow involves intensive computation. In this invention, the trapping engine uses simple bounding boxes, colors, and temporal order information, to eliminate the possibility of trapping many pairs of objects without ever having ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7343320 | Online digital image-based product ordering system A system is provided that allows a photographer to take images for a customer and provide those images to order servicing equipment with which the images are placed on-line for the customer to view. The customer may place orders for the images and products and servi... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339701 | Method for darkness correction of trapped pixels A method for correcting for edge defects caused by print characteristics of a print engine includes printing a set of actual color patches corresponding to a desired set of colors; defining an edge region and a uniform area region in each of the patches; for each co... | 03/04/2008 |
