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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184130 | Method and apparatus for image acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication To better realize the great potential of amateur digital photography, the present invention introduces an integrated system for the acquisition, organization, manipulation, and publication of digital images by amateur digital photography enthusiasts. The system of t... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8106927 | Graphical user interfaces and occlusion prevention for fisheye lenses with line segment foci A method for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in an original image for display on a display screen, comprising: establishing a lens for the region-of-interest, the lens having a magnified focal region for the region-of-interest at least partially su... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7420562 | Chart display device and program for the same A graph creation unit of a chart display device desplays a plurality of charts (graphs), which is created by applying one graph-model form to a plurality of categories in a category list file, onto one graph destination sheet, by aligning and arranging the charts in... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7403211 | Method and system for interactive region segmentation A method and computer graphics program executed by a processor for interactively subdividing a region in a computer controlled graphics display system is described. The user directly manipulates a control object (or “handle”) using a pointing device such as a co... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7373391 | System and method for digital content distribution The present invention makes it possible to distribute digital content managed under copyright to a large number of users through a communications network while ensuring copyright protection. The web server 12 distributes images requested by the user through t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7339600 | Apparatus and method for displaying a picture in a wireless terminal A display apparatus and method for use in a wireless terminal are provided. A direction signal is sensed according to a position in which the wireless terminal is placed. A case when no direction signal is sensed is determined as a first direction signal, and displa... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7283141 | Method and system for enhanced detail-in-context viewing An improved method for display of a transitional region of interest while transitioning between a first region of interest and a second region of interest within visual information on a display screen of a computer. The method comprising the steps of applying a tran... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7265765 | Method and adjusting device for projection-type display An image display device including an image signal input terminal to which image signals are input, an image display system for forming an optical image based on the image signals, and a device adjusting system for adjusting internal conditions of the image display d... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7230632 | Airport display method including changing zoom scales An airport display method including the steps of providing data related to an airport, selecting a degree of zoom for the airport to be displayed on a displayed from a plurality of different degrees of zoom, controlling the display to display in the at least one win... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7165227 | Scalable scroll controller A method for accessing a data field having fine resolution is disclosed. The method includes providing a scalable scroll controller with a scale controller to modify a scale for controlling a magnification for accessing data within the data field. The method also in... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7064770 | Single-pass image resampling system and method with anisotropic filtering A method and system for circularly symmetric anisotropic filtering over an extended elliptical or rectangular footprint in single-pass digital image warping are disclosed. The filtering is performed by first finding and adjusting an ellipse that approximates a non-u... | 06/20/2006 |
| 6975349 | Two-dimensional video timing display A two-dimensional video timing display with numeric readouts allows a user to quickly, easily and precisely measure the timing difference between video signals. A graphic display area within a raster display region provides a two-dimensional display of vertical timi... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6972771 | Image display device, image display method, and image display program A technique is provided for improving visual recognition of letters, graphics, etc., in a portion of a displayed image that has been enlarged. An image display system includes an image display component for displaying on a screen an image based on image data, a regi... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6937291 | Adaptive video scaler An adaptive filter is adjustable for performing scaling operations. During a scaling operation, the adaptive filter stores scaled data in a memory such that more data samples may be retrieved during a subsequent scaling operation. The size of a finite impulse respon... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6847382 | Method used to zoom in selective plot area in display and a plotting calculator applied the like This invention relates to a method used to zoom in selective plot area in display, which method is inserted an inserted box into the display screen of a display device, and said inserted box can be removed to said display screen anywhere and the plot covered within ... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6747668 | Image reducing device and method An image reducing device comprises a simple-averaging device that calculates a simple average of data of pixels of each simple-averaging area of original image data to acquire a pixel of middle image data, and a weighted-averaging device that multiplies data of pixe... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6646642 | Method of creating image frames, storage medium and apparatus for executing program An image representing a motion of an object is obtained with a small processing volume. As shown in FIGS. 5A through 5G, positions in a three-dimensional space associated with sparks of a firework ball are sequentially calculated in accordance with motion... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6603476 | Method, system and program for topographically aware operating system A topographical aware Operating System (OS) which is platform and application independent. The OS contains a 2D to 3D rendering converter within a topographical framework, a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) interface and topographical application programming in... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6571320 | Cache memory for two-dimensional data fields The cache memory is particularly suitable for processing images. The special configuration of a memory field, an allocation unit, a write queue, and a data conflict recognition unit enable a number of data items to be read out from the memory field simult... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6411274 | Digital map display zooming method, digital map display zooming device, and storage medium for storing digital map display zooming program A digital map display zooming method for continuously enlarging and reducing a displayed portion of a digital map as map information in digital form within a display screen is provided which comprises the steps of displaying the displayed portion of the d... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6392662 | Draw order preservation in a computer-implemented graphics system A user-selectable option for preserving draw order upon selection of an object displayed on a monitor. Once the object is selected from among a plurality of objects displayed on the monitor, at least a portion of an area displayed on the monitor is redraw... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6101265 | Method and apparatus for acquiring and reconstructing magnified specimen images from a computer-controlled microscope An apparatus and method acquires and stores multiple resolution images from a specimen on a support and provides to the user a low magnification, reconstructed macro image of the entire specimen, or a large portion thereof, to aid the person in selecting ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5844545 | Image display apparatus capable of combining image displayed with high resolution and image displayed with low resolution An image display apparatus according to the present invention includes an image data memory for storing image data to be displayed, an image plane for displaying an image, a low resolution image display unit for displaying an image based on image data on ... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5016183 | Textile design system and method A realistic image of woven cloth surface is provided by a system which receives a user input of a yarn cross section design to produce a side view image of a resultant spun or unspun yarn and which utilizes either basic weave patterns or user-designed pat... | 05/14/1991 |
| 4179824 | Simulation of an object system formed by polygon faces having a series of fundamental shapes and dimension The terrain data within an aircraft flight simulation system includes two and three dimensional object items formed by polygon faces having shapes orientations and dimensions selected from a series of fundamental shapes orientations and dimensions. The im... | 12/25/1979 |
