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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8125498 | Generating a 3D volumetric mask from a closed surface mesh A computer readable medium is provided embodying instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for generating a volumetric mask. The method includes providing a closed surface mesh, determining a discrete volume representation of the closed surface mesh... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7782339 | Method and apparatus for generating masks for a multi-layer image decomposition Decomposing a computer display image into different layer types and associated masks based on the unique nature of the image is disclosed. These types include text, objects, background and pictures. A set of image masks is used to uniquely identify different layer t... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7714878 | Apparatus and method for multimedia content based manipulation An apparatus and method for multimedia content based manipulation. The method comprises the masking at least one part of the segment of an interaction, said masking can include the hiding, blurring, or alternatively, the enhancing or focusing on a region of interest... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7701470 | Stable mask combination in digital image editing A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for combining raster image masks in a digital image. A first raster image mask may be generated that comprises a first set of one or more pixels having a first intermediate value for membership in ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7528848 | Embedded interaction code decoding for a liquid crystal display A method and system for decoding data on a medium that is captured by an input device is described. The method decodes a symbol design, such as an embedded interaction code (EIC), on a display screen, such as a liquid crystal display (LCD). An image that is captured... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7412112 | Image generation apparatus, image generation system and image synthesis method A surveillance system includes an image deformation unit for deforming the image captured or picked up by a surveillance camera so that the appearance of a specified region within this image has the same geometric shape as that of its corresponding region on the map... | 08/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7370170 | Data mask as write-training feedback flag Methods and apparatuses that enable memory devices to inform graphical processing systems about the results of WRITE de-skew training. A WRITE-TRAINING mode is added to a memory device. When the WRITE-TRAINING mode is asserted the memory data mask (DM) pin is conver... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365658 | Method and apparatus for lossless run-length data encoding An apparatus and method for lossless run-length data encoding is disclosed. In the first stage of the method, an input data sequence is transformed without increasing its volume in order to obtain long sequences of identical digits. In the second stage, every such s... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7330194 | Video object clipping method and apparatus A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining a criteria original image and a criteria reference alpha image from ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7308127 | Method for determining and evaluating defects in a sample surface In this method, the surface to be investigated is first of all exposed to collimated light and the radiation rejected therefrom supplied to a position-resolving image processing means. Then, a mask is generated on the basis of the image supplied by the image process... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304650 | Video object clipping method and apparatus A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining a criteria original image and a criteria reference alpha image from ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295216 | Video object clipping method and apparatus A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining a criteria original image and a criteria reference alpha image from ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295218 | Video object clipping method and apparatus A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining a criteria original image and a criteria reference alpha image from ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295217 | Video object clipping method and apparatus A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining a criteria original image and a criteria reference alpha image from ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286140 | Hardware acceleration of display data clipping Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and apparatus for hardware acceleration of display data clipping. In one embodiment, all display data is presented to the display system. The display system uses its hardware to clip the undesired data an... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280686 | Computer-supported image reconstruction method for a three-dimensional subject A computer is supplied with at least three 2-D projections of a subject that are offset from one another by difference angles. A position in the projection surface and a respective surface data value per projection are allocated to the respective surface elements of... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280117 | Graphical user interface for a keyer A keyer is provided with a graphical user interface that helps a user visualize the relationship between the key and the image to be processed using that key. A color space swatch is processed by the keyer using the defined key. The output of the keyer as applied to... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280120 | Compositing with a sub-pixel mask in graphic object rendering Disclosed is an imaging engine system (699) generally intended for the reproduction of graphical object images using apparatus having limited computing resources, such as so-called “thin clients”. Numerous developments of traditional image processing and ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7265763 | Method and system for image templates A method and system for enabling a user to import a user-defined graphics edit into at least one template, the method including the steps of selecting, by the user, at least one first editable object, editing, by the user, at least part of the at least one first edi... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7239326 | Method and system for providing edge antialiasing A system and method for generating a graphical image on a display is disclosed. The graphical image is generated from data describing at least one object. The display includes a plurality of positions. Each of the plurality of positions has an area. The system and m... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7215827 | Object detection method using an image-pickup device with easy detection masking region setting and object detection apparatus using the method In object detection method and apparatus, a detection image related to a binary image obtained by subtracting a background image from an input image delivered from an image-pickup device is displayed on the display screen of a display unit, responsive to an operatio... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212219 | Drawing apparatus and method, program and recording medium Accurate drawing without position displacement is performed irrespective of different aspect ratios on the transmission side of drawing information and on the reception side. In a drawing apparatus 50, a normalized coordinate transformation section 62 ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7202872 | Apparatus for compressing data in a bit stream or bit pattern One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a graphics system comprising logic for generating a mask that identifies bits within a plurality of bits that are not to be impacted by a subsequent computation. The graphics system further comprises compression... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197711 | Transfer of images to a mobile computing tool When a document generated from an application is printed, each page of the document is treated as a separate image Then, one or more templates are generated for a document, with each template containing common elements for a set of images in the document. For each s... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7180528 | Method and system for image templates A method and system for enabling a user to import a user-defined graphics edit into at least one template, the method including the steps of selecting, by the user, at least one first editable object, editing, by the user, at least part of the at least one first edi... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7176930 | Reducing fill and improving quality of interlaced displays using multi-sampling The present invention provides a system, method and computer program product for reducing fill and improving quality of interlaced displays using multi-sampling. In an embodiment of the invention, a frame buffer for a interlaced display is filled. Initially, a first... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7159187 | In-context creation and editing of masks and waveforms A method of creation/editing masks/waveforms for an instrument invokes a mask editor from an application running on the instrument. A context or signal waveform displayed in the application is transferred as a reference to a mask editor graphic display together with... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7148903 | Image reconstruction method and computer program product In a method for reconstructing a three-dimensional subject a number of projections of a three-dimensional subject is acquired by an acquisition arrangement. Each projection is a dataset of spatially contiguous data values. The projections are provided to a computer.... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7143495 | Backlight etching process A backlight etching process, and more particularly the etching of a solid, semi-translucent base material, to form an exact image within the material. The base material is preferably translucent and most preferably an acrylic-based product, such as DuPont Corian®. ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7142211 | Graphic engine for fill style transferring in a resource-constrained device A method is provided for determining fill styles for pixels. A parameter “sum fill” is calculated for each pixel. Parameter sum fill is the sum of the difference between the right fill style and the left fill style of each edge that touches the bottom border of ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7136081 | System and method of line sampling object scene information This invention relates generally to the art of computer graphics, and more specifically to the field of line sampling object scene information for the purpose of reconstructing an image of the object scene. In particular, the inventions distributes a set of line sam... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7110003 | Rendering objects The method 600 renders a self-overlapping polygon, wherein the polygon is a set of one or more closed curves each comprising line segments. The method performs, for a currently scanned pixel that overlaps both sides of a line segment of the self-overlapping p... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7110000 | Synthesis of progressively-variant textures and application to arbitrary surfaces Methods for synthesizing progressively-variant textures based on texton masks are provided. A first method creates a synthesized texture image guided by a sample texture, first texton mask corresponding to the sample texture and a second texton mask modified based o... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7088375 | Grouping layers in composited image manipulation A method of compositing a plurality of ordered image layers which include a group of consecutive layers. The group has a shape effect and a composition effect. Any image layers under the group are composited to generate a first intermediate image. A first subset of ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7082443 | Method and system for updating geographic databases A method and system for updating geographic databases used in systems that provide navigation-related features are disclosed. An original version of a geographic database is formed in which the data are organized into parcels. An updated version of the geographic da... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7062088 | Variable lossy compression Methods and apparatus for generating a compressed image from a source image by compressing the source image using a dictionary based lossy compression algorithm that regionally varies the amount of information loss from the source image based on regional image quali... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7053893 | Position conflict detection and avoidance in a programmable graphics processor using tile coverage data Prior to executing a program on a fragment, a conflict detection unit, within a fragment processor checks if there is a position conflict indicating a RAW (read after write) hazard may exist. A RAW hazard exists when there is a pending write to a destination locatio... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050070 | Image editing method and image editing apparatus An image editing method comprises storing original images, storing alpha masks corresponding to the original images, respectively, superposing in turn object images that are extracted from the original images by the alpha masks, to display a composite image on a fir... | 05/23/2006 |
