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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189014 | Generating a screen layout for a BIOS display A system and machine-implemented method for generating a screen layout for a BIOS display on a computing system, via accessing a screen layout definition, wherein the screen layout definition identifies which of a plurality of stored images are to be included in a s... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8169449 | System compositing images from multiple applications A system for compositing images using a multilayer graphics controller includes first and second applications. The first application defines masked display regions to a layer of the multilayer graphics controller using masking criterion. The second application provi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164598 | Display assemblies and computer programs and methods for defect compensation The range of embodiments includes systems, methods, and apparatus for defect compensation that may be applied to displays having multiple imaging layers, such as high dynamic range displays, and/or to stereoscopic displays, such as autostereoscopic displays. ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159505 | System and method for efficient digital video composition An efficient method of compositing planes onto a target surface using a computing device with graphics processing capability is disclosed. The method includes partitioning the target surface, on which planes are composited, into partitions. Each one of the partition... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8149247 | Method and system for blending rendered images from multiple applications One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of generating a first rendered image associated with a first application, independently generating a second rendered image associated with a second application, applying a first se... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139086 | Image processing method and system The invention provides an image processing method. An image is provided, and the image is divided into a first subimage, a second subimage, a third subimage, and a fourth subimage according to a decomposing method. Next, the first, second, third, and fourth subimage... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130241 | Graphics items that extend outside a background perimeter Described herein are methods and systems that allow a user to reposition or size a graphics item or background such that a portion of the graphics item resides outside the background. This permits tailored operating spaces based on user preference and allowable cond... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130240 | Target display for gamma calibration User interfaces are provided that allow for the display of a target element that may be used to adjust a gamma value of a display device. The target element includes three layers. A bottom static layer is alternating light and dark lines, which in one instance may b... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8120621 | Method and system of measuring quantitative changes in display frame content for dynamically controlling a display refresh rate A method and system are implemented to measure quantitative changes in display frame content for dynamically controlling a display refresh rate. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of composing a first ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120622 | Proxy direct 3-D device and remote rendering Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for an overlaying requester to send graphics commands to a game connected to the overlaying requester via a dummy graphics application programming interface (API) object that the game will render over normal... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8106924 | Method and system for video rendering, computer program product therefor A method of rendering video frames starting from source frames of a scene acquired using a multi-viewpoint camera system including a Free Viewpoint Video (FVV) synthesizing process. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102406 | Method and system for producing a video synopsis A computer-implemented method and system transforms a first sequence of video frames of a first dynamic scene to a second sequence of at least two video frames depicting a second dynamic scene. A subset of video frames in the first sequence is obtained that show mov... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8085279 | Drawing an image with transparent regions on top of another image without using an alpha channel An image display system draws a first image on top of a second image. Pixels of the first image include one or more color channels which encode color information, but do not include an alpha channel which encodes transparency information. The system encodes transpar... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081198 | Compact clustered 2-D layout A computer implemented method includes receiving, by a computer, a plurality of objects, each object in the plurality having one or more associated attributes and an associated visual representation, wherein a sequential arrangement of the plurality of objects is sp... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8072469 | Fusion night vision system with parallax correction A fusion night vision system corrects for parallax error by comparing an image from a first sensor with an image from a second sensor. ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8063916 | Graphics layer reduction for video composition A method and system that blend graphics layers and a video layer. The graphics layers may be above and below the video layer, which may be a streaming video. The graphics layers may be stored in memory, blended and stored back in memory. The blended graphics layers ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8044974 | Image creating apparatus and image creating method An image creating apparatus capable of creating cell images allowing reliable determination of cell structures in a cell is provided. This image creating apparatus comprises an image pickup portion picking up a plurality of images of a cell on different focal positi... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040360 | Methods of manipulating a screen space of a display device Methods to manipulate a screen space of a display device are disclosed. A plurality of application windows of a plurality of applications are displayed on a screen space. At least a first application and a second application are executing to display a plurality of w... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035657 | Camera and method for creating annotated images The invention relates to a method of annotation of images captured by a digital camera equipped with a previewing means, comprising: the supply with the camera of an operating mode enabling a user to select one image (12) to... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8035658 | Bifocal display device and bifocal display method According to one embodiment, there is provided a bifocal display device includes a database that manages at least distant and nearby viewpoint images as data files, an image processing circuit that obtains a far viewpoint image and a nearby viewpoint image from the ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031208 | Drawing apparatus and method for processing plural pixels in parallel A drawing apparatus includes a reception unit, a first holding unit and a drawing processing unit. The reception unit receives graphic information. The first holding unit holds a plurality of first data which is a part of the graphic information received by the rece... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031209 | Graphical display system and method A method for displaying an operating parameter for a mobile platform. A plurality of different graphs can be digitized to place them in electronic form. Each graph represents a different operational or environmental characteristic relating to operation of the mobile... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8026930 | Preventing viewing by bystanders of information on a display screen A method of and system for preventing viewing by bystanders of information displayed on a display screen displays simultaneously an active image and a second image. The display screen has a first viewing angle and a second viewing angle. The first image is visible f... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8026929 | Seamlessly overlaying 2D images in 3D model The present disclosure provides techniques that can enable a community of users to upload arbitrary images of particular locations and integrate them into a 3D model of that location in such a way that they appear as correctly aligned overlays with the model. Users ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8022966 | Video, audio and graphics decode, composite and display system A video, audio and graphics system uses multiple transport processors to receive in-band and out-of-band MPEG Transport streams, to perform PID and section filtering as well as DVB and DES decryption and to de-multiplex them. The system processes the PES into digita... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8018471 | Visual component/clause merging Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that merge components on a design surface. The system receives input from a user to add components or clauses to a design surface and analyzes the components to determine if some of the components can be merged. If t... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8013873 | Depth perception A rendering unit (300) for rendering an output image (102) comprising output pixels, on basis of an input image (100) comprising input pixels and on basis of depth related data elements corresponding to the respective input pixels is disclosed. ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009178 | Augmenting images for panoramic display Methods and systems are provided methods and systems for augmenting image data (e.g., still image data or video image data) utilizing image context data to generate panoramic images. In accordance with embodiments hereof, a position and orientation of received image... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8004540 | Display resolution boundary A method is provided to retrieve a display resolution used by a computing device in an online conference. With the display resolution, a boundary associated with the display resolution is displayed. The boundary is configured to define a display area shown on the co... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999830 | Rendering changed portions of composited images Rendering graphics on a display of a device. In a portable or wireless device, a list of instructions needed to refresh or generate a frame is first created. The created instructions are then parsed or optimized to remove instructions that result in unnecessary proc... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7990394 | Viewing and navigating within panoramic images, and applications thereof A panorama viewer is disclosed which facilitates navigation from within the panorama of a larger, structured system such as a map. The panorama viewer presents a viewport on a portion of a panoramic image, the viewport including a three-dimensional overlay rendered ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7990395 | Method for setting basic display screen in mobile terminal Disclosed is a method for setting a basic display screen in a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal stores a plurality of indicator images corresponding to each of a plurality of status indicators, and a plurality of images which can be used as background elements. A... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7978208 | Systems and methods for multi-source video distribution and composite display Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a video display processing system including a video source input component, a compositing component, and a composite video output component. The video source input component is adapted to receive video data from a... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7973806 | Reproducing apparatus capable of reproducing picture data A reproducing apparatus includes a graphics processing unit that outputs graphics data of an RGB color space, a video decoder that outputs video data of a YUV color space, a conversion unit that converts a color space of the graphics data from the RGB color space to... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973805 | Methods and apparatus for invising objects in computer animation A method for invising objects includes receiving information indicating an intersection between a first object and a second object. Visibility of the first object is modified based on the amount of interpenetration between the first object and the second object. A p... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969453 | Partial display updates in a windowing system using a programmable graphics processing unit Techniques to generate partial display updates in a buffered window system in which arbitrary visual effects are permitted to any one or more windows (e.g., application-specific window buffers) are described. Once a display output region is identified for updating, ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966291 | Fact-based object merging A repository contains objects including facts about entities. Some objects might be associated with the same entity. An object merge engine identifies a set of merge candidate objects. A grouping module groups the merge candidate objects based on the values of facts... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961201 | Method and apparatus for producing graphical machine vision content for distribution via a network A method and system is provided for viewing machine vision information. The machine vision information includes machine vision data representing a sequence of machine vision processing steps. The machine vision information pertaining to a machine vision process on a... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7952593 | Method and apparatus of image morphing by edges mapping and computer accessible storage medium thereof An image morphing method is suitable for generating an intermediate image sequence. First, a control point CP={(pi,qi)}i=1 . . . N is specified and marked in a source image Is({right arrow over (x)}) and a destination imag... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7948502 | Method of displaying picture having location data and apparatus thereof One objective of the present invention is to provide a method of displaying picture having location data and apparatus thereof. The method comprising the steps of providing an electronic map and a plurality of pictures having location data, and generating a pluralit... | 05/24/2011 |
