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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7420575 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and image processing program An image processing apparatus comprises: a predicted information storage section which stores predicted information that indicates an operation content predicted for an image of a target operation; a predicted image generating portion which generates a predicted ima... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7412106 | Methods for locating and decoding distorted two-dimensional matrix symbols A method is presented for processing an image of a two-dimensional (2D) matrix symbol having a plurality of data modules and a discontinuous finder pattern, each distorted by “donut effects”. A resulting processed image contains an image of the 2D matrix symbol ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7274377 | Viewport panning feedback system A graphical user interface (GUI) displaying a viewport includes a panning control region defined within an outer boundary of the viewport within the GUI. The panning control region includes multiple segments, each of the multiple segments corresponding to a panning ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7167186 | Systems and methods for motion adaptive filtering The systems detect movement of text or areas of high spatial frequency in one frame to another frame. If such movement is detected and meets a certain level or threshold, the subpixel rendering processing of such text or areas of high spatial frequency can be change... | 01/23/2007 |
| 6980826 | Communication system, a communication method, and a cellular phone This invention provides a communication system for controlling a device through a network by using a mobile terminal for saving a space and a cost of a whole system. This invention provides contents from a cellular phone. This communication system comprises a cellul... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6879316 | Pointing device with pressure sensitive resistor An input device with a pressure-sensitive element using a pressure sensing resistor. A solid elastomeric material is mounted over the pressure sensing resistor to transfer a force from the user's finger to the pressure sensitive resistor without visible deformation ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6771280 | Apparatus and method for data-processing Data-processing apparatus and method that provide continuous scrolling on a flat coordinate-input device. Coordinate-information is input by the flat coordinate-input unit. Coordinate-information acquiring unit acquires the input coordinate-information. Coordinate-i... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6587119 | Method and apparatus for defining a panning and zooming path across a still image during movie creation A method and apparatus for enabling a user to define a panning and zooming path across a still image in a digital imaging device during interactive movie creation. The method and apparatus include allowing the user to define the position of a plurality of... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6577321 | Image display apparatus and display control method When scrolling in a vertical direction, field determining means determines whether a field currently being scanned is odd-numbered or even-numbered. Address calculating means decrements a reading address for reading image data from image data storage mean... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6501483 | Method and apparatus for antialiasing using a non-uniform pixel sampling pattern The invention provides a method and apparatus for an anti-aliasing process that allows for super-sampling at a high subpixel resolution, but does not require the process and memory resources typically required for conventional super-sampling at this subpi... | 12/31/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6407749 | Combined scroll and zoom method and apparatus Method and apparatus for simultaneously scrolling and zooming graphic data in a display device in response to pointing device action by user. The system alternates between zooming in and zooming out at preset rates in response to successive user actuation... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6331863 | Intelligent scrolling A method and apparatus for intelligent scrolling. In a computer system that has a user interface which allows for the movement of items from a first open window to a second open window or to a second region, such as a desktop, the present invention allows... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6297836 | Image display device having shift commands and automatic scroll process Various commands and data are input to an image display device via an input block. Part or whole of basic image data formed of a dot matrix is stored in a basic image data storage device of the image display device. A portion of the basic image data in a ... | 10/02/2001 |
| 5867143 | Digital image coding A method and apparatus are disclosed for the coding of digital images for subsequent display by an apparatus having multiple image planes, wherein each image plane provides a unique information density. Accordingly, when an image feature is to be encoded,... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5414805 | Visual display transition effects using sorted table of display cells A computer system generates transition effects for use on a visual display. The system includes a binary table for describing a transition effect and a method for ordering the rows in the table to produce the transition. The table includes an arbitrary nu... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5305219 | Vehicle movement data analyzing apparatus A vehicle movement digital data analyzing apparatus according to the present invention is for processing moving conditions of a vehicle momentarily varying with time which are recorded and collected in a record medium, and capable of converting a portion ... | 04/19/1994 |
