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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7999829 | Facilitating image-editing operations across multiple perspective planes One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates performing an image-editing operation across multiple perspective planes. During operation, the system receives a selection for a source area for the image-editing operation, wherein the sour... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7982750 | Test-wearing image producing method for personal products A method for test-wearing image producing method for a personal product includes the steps of: posting a base image layer which contains an image of a wearer; defining a display area and a masking area on the base image layer in responsive to the personal product be... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7952592 | System and method for view-dependent cutout geometry for importance-driven volume rendering A method for creating a cutout surface for volume rendering includes providing a digitized medical image volume comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to a 3-dimensional grid of points, identifying a surface of interest in said image volume, representin... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7924295 | Image processing device for expanded representation of three-dimensional image data sets An image processing device has an image presentation module that is fashioned for 3D representation of a 3D subject on an image display device, and has an interaction module with which an operator can interactively displace, rotate or zoom the 3D subject in the 3D r... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7755644 | Revealing clipped portion of image object Methods and apparatus implementing systems and techniques for revealing a clipped portion of an image. In general, in one implementation, the techniques include presenting a visual representation of an image object having a clipped portion hidden from view in the vi... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7423655 | Revealing clipped portion of image object Methods and apparatus implementing systems and techniques for revealing a clipped portion of an image. In general, in one implementation, the techniques include presenting a visual representation of an image object having a clipped portion hidden from view in the vi... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7310103 | Pipelined 2D viewport clip circuit A system and method for performing viewport clipping for multiple viewports using a pipeline. The pixel address coordinates are compared against boundaries of a first viewport window. The results of this comparison, along with the pixel address coordinates, are regi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7292242 | Clipping with addition of vertices to existing primitives Clipping techniques introduce additional vertices into existing primitives without requiring creation of new primitives. For an input triangle with one vertex on the invisible side of a clipping surface, a quadrangle can be defined. The vertices of the quadrangle ar... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7265753 | Particle tracing with on-demand meshing A method of rendering computer graphics is disclosed comprising the steps of: processing a set of light particles in a scene to be rendered; selecting a view of the scene, where the view comprises at least one surface, the surface comprising a plurality of pixels; s... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7248750 | Object information processing apparatus, image processing system, game apparatus and image processing method An object information processing apparatus is provided for obtaining object information from input image data comprising pixels. The object information processing apparatus comprises an object determination section for determining whether or not each pixel is a part... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7187391 | Projection display apparatus, display method for same and image display apparatus The present invention provides a technology that enables related portions of multiple pages of images to be displayed simultaneously. A projection display apparatus comprises: an image extraction section that extracts at least a portion of given first image data as ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7158132 | Method and apparatus for processing primitive data for potential display on a display device A method and apparatus for processing a primitive (for potential display as a part of a graphical image on a display device) cause attribute data to be received by a graphics processor as a function of whether the primitive is capable of being viewable in the graphi... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7126578 | Combining raster and vector data in the presence of transparency Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for preparing one or more vector data objects for rendering. In general, in one aspect, the technique includes receiving an object that is a vector data object and defining clipping states of the object. Each clipping s... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7095527 | Method and apparatus for printing transparent graphics A method for printing documents containing transparent graphics objects includes creating a transparency list containing the transparent graphics objects of said document, and printing only objects contained in said transparency list as bitmaps. ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7075532 | Robust tetrahedralization and triangulation method with applications in VLSI layout design and manufacturability A tetrahedralization and triangulation method used with the proximity based rounding method to satisfy topological consistency of tetrahedralization with the bounded precision of a digital computer is described. Tetrahedralization is applied to a VLSI design, and mo... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7002599 | Method and apparatus for hardware acceleration of clipping and graphical fill in display systems Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and apparatus for hardware acceleration of clipping and graphical fill in display systems. In one embodiment, all display data is presented to the display system. The display system uses its hardware to c... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6956584 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, image output apparatus and storage medium An image processing method converts line vectors of an input graphic path and an input clip path into run sets in dot coordinates passed by the line vectors, and generates a region run describing a closed region represented by the entire path from the run sets, so a... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6940526 | Image synthesizing apparatus There is disclosed an image synthesizing apparatus for producing a synthetic image that consists of a background image and at least a main image superimposed on the back ground image. An input image is displayed in a main display area of a control screen, whereas an... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6937234 | Combining a plurality of images and transforming an image having associated meta-data The method combines a plurality of images. The images each have associated meta-data comprising meta-data element(s) having merging attribute tag(s). The merging attribute describes an action to be taken with the corresponding meta-data element when the images are c... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6920415 | Method of trimming a representation of an object surface comprising a mesh of tessellated polygons and related system A method of trimming a mesh representation of an object surface comprising a tessellated mesh of polygons. A trim curve is projected onto the mesh representation to determine the trim area. Polygons within or intersecting the trim area are removed, and new polygons ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6847383 | System and method for accurately displaying superimposed images The present invention discloses a system-and method for accurately displaying superimposed images on a display screen of a computer. The method includes storing a base image having a first feature and a second feature in a storage device of a computer. Data is recei... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6690385 | Robust boolean operations in design rule checking A process for preventing spurious intersections in a polygon due to rounding by using proximity-based rounding. A vertex of a polygon is identified which is located within a unit integer box through which an edge of the polygon passes that does not have t... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6686930 | Technique for accomplishing copy and paste and scan to fit using a standard TWAIN data source A method for copying and pasting a selected portion of an image from a TWAIN compliant image source includes scanning the selected image portion to fit in a target area of a destination image. Dimensional information regarding the selected portion of the ... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6683620 | Relational modeling of trimmed nurbs surfaces A method and apparatus are provided relationally modeling a trimmed NURBS surface. The relational model may be formed of a NURBS surface object, a trimming curve object that depends on the NURBS surface object, and a third object which depends on both the... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6680739 | Systems and methods for compositing graphical data A preferred method for producing a composite digital video data stream, which contains data corresponding to an image to be rendered, includes the steps of: receiving multiple digital video data streams, each of the multiple digital video data streams cor... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6661425 | Overlapped image display type information input/output apparatus An information input/output device having an intuitive operating feeling and improved information viewing and discriminating properties. The device comprises an superposing image extraction unit 101 extracting a portion for superpositional display from an... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6596032 | Document processing apparatus storing and modifying data using effect data A document processing apparatus simplifies a user's manipulations for selecting a layout or inserting a part into a selected layout, and enables a user to increase the number of parts the user can choose with a simple manipulation and without an increase ... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6590582 | Clipping processing method A method for determining a position at which a polygon to be clipped is situated with respect to a clipping plane to perform clipping processing, includes the steps of selecting a bounding volume sufficiently enclosing the polygon, and judging a position ... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6518976 | Graphics container A method of setting a graphics container in a graphics device wherein a child application draws graphics within a parent application's graphics context. A parent application begins a graphics container, pushes the current state information to a container ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6429884 | Method and apparatus for processing and playback of digital images at a display monitor In a method and apparatus for presenting and processing an image reproducible at a display monitor, wherein digital image data of an examination volume of a subject are registered with an image pickup system, such as a medical examination installation, th... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6380946 | Enhancing hardware clipping for bit-packed fonts The present invention is a method and apparatus for enhancing clipping a bit-packed glyph. A first clip value is determined if it is less than a first maximum value. If the first clip value exceeds the first maximum value, a second clip value and a third ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6366370 | Rendering methods for full parallax autostereoscopic displays A method of rendering image data for full parallax autostereoscopic displays. The method is based on a double frustrum camera technique, where two cameras provide image data from opposing sides of an image plane. The near clipping plane is located on the ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6353441 | Visual annotative clipping in a computer-implemented graphics system A computer-implemented graphics program performs visual annotative clipping, wherein the graphics objects in a document that include one or more clear zones are identified and collected into a clear zone list, and then all graphics objects in the document... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6330001 | Device and computer-readable record medium for image position adjustment An image position adjustment device which can let the user adjust alignment between two or more images easily and efficiently includes a feature extraction section, a display image generation section, and a displaying order setting section. The feature ex... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6005586 | Drawing processing apparatus A drawing processing apparatus has a drawing data input section 2 for receiving the drawing data to be drawn. A drawing data determination section 3 determines the drawing data type from the drawing data input to the drawing data input section 2 and passe... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5798764 | Method for determining the intersections of Delaunay partitioned tetrahedra with the boundary of a body to be analyzed A method is described for determining an intersection of a boundary of a body with each of Delaunay partitioned tetrahedra, the body exhibiting edges and faces. Firstly, a plurality of first tetrahedra are produced by dividing the body into a plurality of... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5739825 | Computer generated hatch filling within a vector graphic In a computer system, a method and an apparatus for generating hatch fills within a contour of a vector graphic. The method of the present invention includes the steps of reading vector graphic data defining a contour of a vector graphic, creating a serie... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5734808 | Pipeline processing device, clipping processing device, three-dimensional simulator device and pipeline processing method An objective of this invention is to provide a pipeline processing device that enables the implementation of optimized pipeline processing and moreover has a simple configuration and control method, and a clipping processing device that uses this pipeline... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5594848 | Method and apparatus for efficiently determining line segments within a window using iterative halving A method and apparatus is provided for efficiently determining scissored line segments within a window, without the use of long division calculations. Edges are examined to determine whether an intersection exists between the line and the edge. If so, end... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5522020 | System and method for rapidly determining relative rectangle position A system and method for determining the interaction between two isothetic rectangles without evaluating all vertices of those rectangles. The relative displacement of the rectangles can be expressed as a function of the coordinates of two vertices of each... | 05/28/1996 |
