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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7630580 | Diffusion-based interactive extrusion of 2D images into 3D models Systems and methods are provided for performing diffusion-based image extrusion. According to one embodiment, a three dimensional model is created by polygonizing an input image to produce an inflatable image. The input image may be either a 2D image or icon or a 3D... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7561756 | Particle shape characterization from 2D images Three-dimensional (3D) shapes of particles are characterized from a two-dimensional (2D) image of the particles that is obtained using TEM. The 3D shape characterization method includes the steps of obtaining a 2D image of a batch of nanoparticles, determining 2D sh... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7529431 | Method and device for reconstructing and representing multidimensional objects from one-dimensional or two-dimensional image data The method/device reconstructs/represents multidimensional objects from one- or two-dimensional image data based on recordings of one- or two-dimensional partial image areas, wherein spatial/positions of individual partial image areas are used along with one- or two... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7483590 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method for non-planar image, storage medium, and computer program Such processes as compression, storage and reproduction of an image mapped on a three-dimensional coordinate system such as a spherical surface or a cylindrical surface are performed suitably by mapping omnidirectional map information to a two-dimensional image such... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7474803 | System and method of three-dimensional image capture and modeling System and method for constructing a 3D model of an object based on a series of silhouette and texture map images. In the exemplary embodiment an object is placed on a rotating turntable and a camera, which is stationary, captures images of the object as it rotates ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7437021 | Image processing device and method An image processing apparatus and method which can achieve a reduction in size of the crossbar circuit and achieve a higher speed of processing, which perform DDA processing (ST11), then read out texture data from a memory (ST12), perform sub-word real... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436411 | Apparatus and method for rendering a video image as a texture using multiple levels of resolution of the video image A method and apparatus to generate one or more graphics textures of a video image, wherein graphics textures have differing resolutions, and to render the video image as a graphics texture using the one or more graphics textures of differing resolutions. The one or ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7430322 | Particle shape characterization from 2D images The size distributions corresponding to the three-dimensional (3D) shapes of particles are estimated from a 3D-to-2D projection matrix and a two-dimensional (2D) image of the particles that is obtained using TEM. Two different methods to generate a 3D-to-2D projecti... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428469 | Three-dimensional-information detecting system and three-dimensional-information inputting device A three-dimensional-information detecting system includes a switching portion that sequentially selects sensor coils of a three-dimensional-information detecting device. Electromagnetic coupling is used to perform signal transmission and reception between the sensor... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7427334 | Method and apparatus for encoding substrates with information The present invention provides methods and apparatus to encode substrates (e.g., paper, synthetics, etc.) with information. In one implementation a method is provided including: receiving data that corresponds to a two-dimensional signal that encodes plural bits of ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426304 | Method and device for three-dimensional graphics to two-dimensional video encoding A method and device for three-dimensional graphics to two-dimensional video encoding. A three-dimensional model representing at least one three-dimensional object is received. The three-dimensional model is rendered into a two-dimensional frame. Composition informat... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7425952 | Three-dimensional visualization architecture A virtual terrain architecture and computer program product for employing a geocentric coordinate system, using a tessellated three-dimensional shape for representing a celestial body, and mapping terrain data to the tessellated three-dimensional shape is disclosed.... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7426292 | Method for determining optimal viewpoints for 3D face modeling and face recognition A method determines an optimal set of viewpoints to acquire a 3D shape of a face. A view-sphere is tessellated with a plurality of viewpoint cells. The face is at an approximate center of the view-sphere. Selected viewpoint cells are discarded. The remaining viewpoi... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7421151 | Estimation of coefficients for a rational polynomial camera model One aspect of the invention is embodied in a number of machine-readable media having stored thereon sequences of instructions which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform a number of actions. The actions include, for each of a plurality of image s... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7412115 | Image processing device and method thereof An image processing device and a method thereof. The image processing device includes a mapper to map a two-dimensional plane of an input image into a three-dimensional vector surface, a coefficient calculator to calculate a coefficient with respect to an equation o... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403650 | System for simultaneous projections of multiple phase-shifted patterns for the three-dimensional inspection of an object A three-dimensional image grabber allowing for the simultaneous projection of multiple phase-shifted patterns onto an object, and the simultaneous acquisition of multiple images of these phase-shifted patterns is described herein. The grabber comprises a pattern pro... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400331 | Apparatus and methods for texture mapping The invention provides texture mapping techniques that facilitate interactive painting of a three-dimensional virtual surface by a user in object space, without requiring global parameterization. The texture mapping techniques feature rendering texture for a given v... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7388973 | Systems and methods for segmenting an organ in a plurality of images A system for segmenting an organ in a plurality of images is described. The system includes an imaging system configured to generate a first set of slices showing images of a subject having the organ. The system also includes a controller configured to determine a s... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7379584 | Methods for registration of three-dimensional frames to create three-dimensional virtual models of objects A method and system are provided for constructing a virtual three-dimensional model of an object using a data processing system, and at least one machine-readable memory accessible to said data processing system. A set of at least two digital three-dimensional frame... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376284 | System, computer program and method for 3D object measurement, modeling and mapping from single imagery A method for deriving three-dimensional measurement information and/or creating three-dimensional models and maps, from single images of at least one three-dimensional object is provided. In another aspect of the method, the method includes the further step of creat... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372985 | Systems and methods for volumetric tissue scanning microscopy In accordance with preferred embodiments of the present invention, a method for imaging tissue, for example, includes the steps of mounting the tissue on a computer controlled stage of a microscope, determining volumetric imaging parameters, directing at least two p... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373473 | System and method for efficient storage and manipulation of extremely large amounts of scan data Large data sets can be stored and processed in real time by combining and registering the large data sets into a single data set. The data can be stored in a data tree structure formed of layers of spatially organized blocks of data. Such storage allows portions of ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369694 | Method and medical device for the automatic determination of coordinates of images of marks in a volume dataset In a method and medical device for determining the coordinates of images of marks in a volume dataset, the marks are disposed on the surface of a subject, and the volume dataset represents the images of the marks and an image of at least the part of the subject on w... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369137 | Method for mapping a single decoded content stream to multiple textures in a virtual environment A system includes a computing device to obtain encoded content data corresponding to at least one participant of a virtual reality environment. A memory device stores at least one texture corresponding to the at least one participant. A single decoder decodes the en... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365326 | Camera having distortion correction A lightweight camera is provided that includes a lightweight lens system that has a reduced number of lenses. Reducing the number of lenses produces a lighter camera, but produces a distorted local image. The distorted local image is captured by the lightweight came... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363157 | Method and apparatus for performing wide area terrain mapping A method and apparatus for performing wide area terrain mapping. The system comprises a digital elevation map (DEM) and mosaic generation engine that processes images that are simultaneously captured by an electro-optical camera (RGB camera) and a LIDAR sensor. The ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362886 | Age-based face recognition In an image processing apparatus, a face recognizer is trained using images of one or more faces to generate representation data for the face recognizer characterising the face(s). Face recognition processing is then performed using the representation data. The trai... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359550 | Incremental singular value decomposition of incomplete data A method models data values acquired by measuring a natural phenomena. Samples are acquired of the natural phenomena, each sample is arranged as a vector c of the data values. Some of the data values may be missing. The vectors c are decomposed into five matrices, r... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355604 | Image rendering method and image rendering apparatus using anisotropic texture mapping An image rendering method includes generating pixels in accordance with graphic information, determining a direction of anisotropy of a footprint obtained by projecting the pixel on a texture on which a set of texels are disposed on uv-coordinates, and executing sam... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352369 | System and method for approximating an editable surface A system and methods are disclosed for automatically approximating an editable surface from a 3D data set or a 3D point set, which may be imaged in the form of a NURBS surface. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352892 | System and method for shape reconstruction from optical images Reconstructing the shape of the surface of an object in greater than two dimensions is performed using a noise-tolerant reconstruction process and/or a multi-resolution reconstruction process. The noise-tolerant reconstruction process can be a Bayesian reconstructio... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352386 | Method and apparatus for recovering a three-dimensional scene from two-dimensional images A method and apparatus for recovering a three-dimensional (3D) scene from two-dimensional (2D) images. A sequence of images is divided into a number of smaller segments and a 3D reconstruction is performed on each segment individually. All the reconstructed segments... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348989 | Preparing digital images for display utilizing view-dependent texturing A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium, a computer readable medium storing computer-executable instructions, and a computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave, all for providing a graphic image utilizing view-dependent texture data, including ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342966 | MPEG table structure A MPEG table data structure includes a data portion and a header. The header includes an action identifier field, and the action identifier field relates to data that identifies an action to be carried by a receiver/decoder receiving the MPEG table data structure. | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336847 | Texture error recovery method using edge preserving spatial interpolation A method of recovering texture information for an error block in a video stream includes applying an edge detection spatial filter on blocks surrounding an error block to detect texture edges, each block containing a plurality of pixels, and identifying first pixels... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333868 | Systems and methods for designing and manufacturing engineered objects A system for manufacturing an engineered object comprising an estimate generator, layout drawing generator, and design generator. The estimate generator generates a cost estimate based on a request for proposal defining the engineered object. The layout drawing gene... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333651 | Method and apparatus for measuring similarity using matching pixel count A stereo disparity between a reference image and a search image for a reference pixel in the reference image is determined by (a) calculating a similarity measure between a reference window including a set of pixels centering on the reference pixel and each of a gro... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328080 | Manufacturing methods and systems for rapid production of hearing-aid shells Methods, apparatus and computer program products provide efficient techniques for designing and printing shells of hearing-aid devices with a high degree of quality assurance and reliability and with a reduced number of manual and time consuming production steps and... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327363 | Image processing apparatus, and computer program When volume data of a three-dimensional object to be processed is read and stored into a predetermined storage, first, a plurality of reference planes are set and a plurality of reference distance maps each indicative of distribution of distances between the three-d... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327903 | Method and apparatus for reconstruction of a multi-dimensional image A method and apparatus for imaging including reconstruction of an image of an object from a set of projections acquired for different positions of an acquisition apparatus around the object to be imaged and in which a projection source is situated at a finite distan... | 02/05/2008 |