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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7683917 | Tool for extracting and manipulating components of warping transforms Methods and products are disclosed concerning extraction of selected components of a warping of an image. Given a warped image and a distortion grid, the distortion at any point in the image may be viewed locally as a displacement and a linear transform. The linear ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7649540 | Coordinate transformations system and method thereof A two-dimensional coordinate transformations software program and method thereof is described. In one aspect, the present invention solves problems of accurately and efficiently placing data from Records of Surveys, subdivision plats, deeds, highway right of way pla... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7425958 | Perspective editing tools for 2-D images Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products, to provide an image editing application including a perspective editing tool for performing edits in regions of an image having perspective. The perspective editing tool enables the user to iden... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7411595 | Tool for extracting and manipulating components of warping transforms Methods and products are disclosed concerning extraction of selected components of a warping of an image. Given a warped image and a distortion grid, the distortion at any point in the image may be viewed locally as a displacement and a linear transform. The linear ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7394470 | Method for reversibly transforming data format, image processing apparatus, program for reversibly transforming data format, and computer-readable recording medium thereof In a method for reversibly transforming a data format, a forward transformation and a backward transformation are reciprocally conducted for data between unit systems having different resolution levels, and the forward transformation and the backward transformation,... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7379602 | Extended Isomap using Fisher Linear Discriminant and Kernel Fisher Linear Discriminant A method for representing images for pattern classification extends the conventional Isomap method with Fisher Linear Discriminant (FLD) or Kernel Fisher Linear Discriminant (KFLD) for classification. The extended Isomap method estimates the geodesic distance of dat... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372469 | Image transforming method The present invention provides a method for rotating YUV4:2:0 image in a digital display device, such as TV image system. A YUV4:2:0 image is separated to a Y division matrix and a U and V division matrix. Then the Y division is performed a rotation matrix calculati... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373023 | Method and system for generating an image Generating an image includes receiving a light at sensors, where the light is associated with images. A previous matrix is determined, where the previous matrix includes image information associated with an image. For each sensor, a current image data corresponding ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369044 | Display apparatus for vehicle A display apparatus for a vehicle includes display screen having a plurality of display areas such as a tachometer display area, a speedometer display area, and an auxiliary display area. The display apparatus for a vehicle further includes a CPU for controlling ima... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7336268 | Point-to-point display system having configurable connections An exemplary point-to-point display system comprises a host system, a timing controller, and a display. The host system is configured to provide data for display. The timing controller is configurable to provide data swapping, bus swapping, bit swapping, and combina... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334189 | Displaying method in information processing apparatus that permits execution of either object or task oriented processings A displaying method that makes the following possible: Executing an operation from either of two approaches, i.e. a processing oriented to an object to be processed or a processing oriented to a task to be processed, and effectively dealing with a lot of tasks and v... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7313645 | Processor to reduce data rearrangement instructions for matrices in multiple memory banks The present invention provides a processor including: a plurality of memory banks; a read-address generation circuit for supplying a read address to each of the memory banks on the basis of a read-register specification and a read-register scan direction; a read con... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312802 | Coordinate design and information system A coordinate design and information system (CDIS) combining coordinate geometry, spatial features and drafting into one package. CDIS uses an object-oriented and spatial-based approach in which all objects have a set of attributes, while space and areas are defined ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7298376 | System and method for real-time co-rendering of multiple attributes An apparatus and method for enhancing the combined image of multiple attributes without compromising the image of either attribute. The combined image of the multiple attributes is enhanced for analyzing a predetermined property revealed by the attributes. The combi... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7283684 | Spectral compression algorithms for the analysis of very large multivariate images A method for spectrally compressing data sets enables the efficient analysis of very large multivariate images. The spectral compression algorithm uses a factored representation of the data that can be obtained from Principal Components Analysis or other factorizati... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266255 | Distributed multi-sample convolution A multi-chip system is disclosed for distributing the convolution process. Rather than having multiple convolution chips working in parallel with each chip working on a different portion of the screen, a new design utilizes chips working in series. Each chip is resp... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7233303 | Method of displaying high-density dot-matrix bit-mapped image on low-density dot-matrix display and system therefor A method of and system for displaying high-density bit-mapped dot-matrix imaging data on a large-scale low-density dot-matrix display is disclosed. Bit-mapped image data from each of multiple and adjacently oriented dot image data groups is allocated to drive one do... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7218789 | Method for lossless encoding of image data by approximating linear transforms and preserving selected properties for image processing A method for generating a first plurality of output data values and the matrix factors used to generate an approximation to an image processing transform is disclosed. The first plurality of output data values are generated by transforming a plurality of input data ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7205998 | System and process for optimal texture map reconstruction from multiple views A system and process for reconstructing optimal texture maps from multiple views of a scene is described. In essence, this reconstruction is based on the optimal synthesis of textures from multiple sources. This is generally accomplished using basic image processing... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7202877 | Sprite rendering Computation of sprite position and size in JSR-184 with revised modelview matrix made with column vector lengths of original modelview matrix. ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197187 | Reduction of data with limited distortion of image formed of the data A method for reducing data with limited distortion of an image formed of the data includes determining whether reduction of the data is feasible and reducing the data if reduction of the data is feasible. Determining whether reduction of the source data is feasible ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7155601 | Multi-element operand sub-portion shuffle instruction execution An apparatus and method for performing a shuffle operation on packed data is described. In one embodiment, a 128-bit packed data operand having at eight data elements is accessed. In one embodiment, one of the data elements in the upper half of the data operand is s... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7089159 | Method and apparatus for matrix reordering and electronic circuit simulation A matrix reordering method performs reordering of elements of a coefficient matrix created based on coefficients of linear simultaneous equations whose solutions are to be produced by parallel processing of processors of a computer in accordance with Gaussian elimin... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088478 | Chromaticity conversion device and chromaticity conversion method Linear chromaticity conversion is used to perform color reproduction of a liquid crystal display (LCD) compatible with a cathode ray tube (CRT). An inputted signal is subjected to processing similar to processing used in the CRT display. A light source chromaticity ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7079145 | Method and program solving LCPs for rigid body dynamics A projected iterative descent method is used to resolve LCPs related to rigid body dynamics, such that animation of the rigid body dynamics on a display system occur in real-time. ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7046863 | Optimizing the advantages of multi-level rendering Systems and methods for optimizing the advantages of multi-level rendering of text and/or graphics at an output device by providing an alternate manner to perform multi-level rendering. A computer device, employed to render an image or graphical entity, is connected... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7030880 | Information processor In an information processing apparatus for conducting an affine transformation representative of ( x ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7010167 | Method of geometric linear discriminant analysis pattern recognition Feature attributes are extracted from an observation space to create feature vectors for each class to be identified. A linear transformation matrix is used to reduce the dimension of the feature vectors. A numerical optimization algorithm maximizes a geometric crit... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7010760 | Batch-based method and tool for graphical manipulation of workflows An autofill algorithm provides tools for defining and automatically executing batch based procedures in an adaptive hierarchical workflow environment, and may be suitable for a large variety of applications including laboratory procedure planning, execution, documen... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6999095 | System and process for optimal texture map reconstruction from multiple views A system and process for reconstructing optimal texture maps from multiple views of a scene is described. In essence, this reconstruction is based on the optimal synthesis of textures from multiple sources. This is generally accomplished using basic image processing... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995830 | Lithographic projection apparatus and device manufacturing method A system and method is used to pattern a substrate. A projection beam received from a radiation system is patterned using an array of individually controllable elements. A portion of the projection beam is directed directly onto one of the individually controllable ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6970178 | Information processing apparatus In an information processing apparatus for conducting an affine transformation representative of ( x â€... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6944747 | Apparatus and method for matrix data processing A matrix data processor is implemented wherein data elements are stored in physical registers and mapped to logical registers. After being stored in the logical registers, the data elements are then treated as matrix elements. By using a series of variable matrix pa... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6825853 | Apparatus and method for color space conversion in video images Color space conversion from a first image definition scheme to a second image definition scheme is realized by utilizing only one step of matrix multiplication and by determining whether determined RGB values are in a valid RGB region and, if not, generating a first... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6765585 | Image display system, image processing method, and program An image display system, image processing method, and program that make it possible to reproduce the colors of an image more rapidly in accordance with the user's preferences. The image display system includes: a color gamut calculation section that calculates a tar... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6760040 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus, semiconductor device, computer program and recording medium A technique for expressing an elastic body using computer graphics. The elastic body is expressed by transforming coordinates of shape specific points which specify the shape of an object using a transformation matrix. Each element of the transformation matrix is ex... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6670958 | Method and apparatus for routing data to multiple graphics devices In a specific embodiment, a system for providing video includes a system bus, which in one embodiment is an Advanced Graphics Port (AGP) busy. The system bus is connected to a data bridge, which is connected to a second and third AGP bus. Each of the AGP ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6614425 | System and method for the adaptive mapping of matrix data to sets of polygons A system and method for converting bitmapped data, for example, weather data or thermal imaging data, to polygons is disclosed. The conversion of the data into polygons creates smaller data files. The invention is adaptive in that it allows for a variable... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6552733 | Configurable vertex blending circuit and method therefore A configurable vertex blending circuit that allows both morphing and skinning operations to be supported in dedicated hardware is presented. Such a configurable vertex blending circuit includes a matrix array that is used for storing the matrices associat... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6288723 | Method and apparatus for converting data format to a graphics card An apparatus and method for performing conversion of graphical data format is disclosed. A matrix multiplication is performed on a first set of data and a second set of data to generate a third set of data in a first format. The first and second sets of d... | 09/11/2001 |
