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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7945854 | Systems and methods for the combination and display of social and textual content Techniques are presented for determining a corpus of content portions, each content portion associated with at least one element. A first set of feature values is determined for each content portion. Clusters of content portions are then determined based on the firs... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7689936 | Process for selecting and handling objects in a computer-aided design system Several elements are displayed on a computer display. The user is provided with a haptic device, for moving a cursor over the display. Distances between the cursor and the various elements are computed; the element with the smallest distance is highlighted on the di... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7437684 | Graphical interface system for manipulating a virtual dummy To make it easier to manipulate in direct action and to manage the degrees of freedom of a virtual dummy, the invention provides a graphical interface system enabling two windows to be displayed on a screen. The first window contains an overall representation of the... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7412666 | Method for conducting a contest using a network A method for conducting a contest using a network is provided. A plurality of pick spaces, a virtual display fixture, and a plurality of virtual articles of commerce are displayed on the screen of a user computer. The user computer is disposed at a user site and ope... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7305611 | Authoring tool for remote experience lessons A computer-implemented presentation authoring method, tool, and interface is provided for creating a remote experience lesson defined with a hierarchy of pages, at least one of the pages including an interactive view of a three-dimensional model. Any number of three... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7298382 | Figure selection method, figure selection device, and storage medium storing figure selection program A figure selection method and device including a retrieval operation of a figure element adjacent to a designated figure element where a figure is formed by a plurality of figure elements. According to an aspect of the present invention, the retrieval operation is c... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7277572 | Three-dimensional interior design system A system and method in a client-server computing environment is provided for generating and rendering a photorealistic three-dimensional (3D) perspective view of a 3D object selectively positioned within a 3D scene. A client is configured for communicably accessing ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7246085 | Electronic catalogue system, server, and medium for displaying on one screen images of a commercial product and articles for comparison An electronic catalogue system which, for easy sensory recognition of the size of a commercial product which is displayed in an electronic catalogue, displays on one screen the image of the commercial product together with the image of an article for comparison whic... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7222295 | Method and apparatus for conveying design information of computer aided design (CAD) models The invention includes computer instructions that detect a cursor in a proximity of a geometry piece of a mechanical design having multimedia associated with the geometry piece. Once the cursor is detected, the instructions automatically generate an icon associated ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7146576 | Automatically designed three-dimensional graphical environments for information discovery and visualization An apparatus and method for browsing a plurality of data objects represented by images displayed within a three-dimensional graphical environment is described. A plurality of data object arrangement schemes are provided for arranging corresponding represented images... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7139982 | Navigation methods, systems, and computer program products for virtual three-dimensional books A system is described for displaying images of a virtual three-dimensional book having one or more virtual pages. The system comprises a display system capable of executing a display program wherein images of the virtual three-dimensional book are produced on the di... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7134095 | Simulated three-dimensional navigational menu system A user interface, system, method and software for displaying a simulated three-dimensional display of menu options to a user, thereby maximizing use of a display's real estate by presenting all available options at once while at the same time presenting certain opti... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7116338 | Color information processing apparatus and method The analysis and evaluation techniques of a gamut mapping technique, which can reflect the determination result of the quality of gamut mapping in the gamut mapping technique, are demanded. Hence, a color distribution information file and image file are loaded, init... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7089506 | Method for selecting products The invention relates to a method for selecting products, wherein with each product there is associated a data set with a plurality of product characteristics, wherein the selection of a product is performed based on criteria selected by a user relating to the chara... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7069516 | Information input/output system and information input/output method A digital object is manipulated by way of a physical object. As a digital space on a computer is deeply fused with a physical real space, it becomes possible to input user commands not only by way of native user input devices such as a mouse and a keyboard but also ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7000192 | Method of producing a matted image usable in a scrapbook A method of producing a matted image which is usable in a scrapbook. The method comprises the steps of displaying a digital image having a mat area; displaying a plurality of color selections from which a user can select at least one of the plurality of color select... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995760 | Editing method and medium in CAD system Disclosed is a technology of making a user grasp and specify a basic configuration invisible in a finally generated three-dimensional configuration in a three-dimensional CAD system for generating the three-dimensional configuration by sequentially combining the bas... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6976230 | Apparatus and method for displaying three-dimensional graphics An apparatus for displaying three-dimensional graphics, is disclosed, which comprises: a reader for reading coordinate data of objects to be displayed; another reader for reading coordinate data of a complete floor to be displayed; a generator for generating coordin... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6970812 | Virtual-space providing apparatus, virtual-space providing system, and virtual-space providing method Disclosed is a virtual-space providing apparatus, which is connected to a user terminal via a network, and which provides the user terminal with various kinds of services through a three-dimensional virtual space created in the network, the virtual-space providing a... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6918087 | Visual clues to navigate three-dimensional space in a computer-implemented graphics system A computer-implemented graphics system provides visual clues for navigating a three-dimensional space. The graphics system displays a two-dimensional viewport of the three-dimensional space on a monitor attached to the computer. A cursor is moved through the two-dim... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6907579 | User interface and method for interacting with a three-dimensional graphical environment A user interface and method for interacting with a three-dimensional graphical environment is determined. Multiple viewing perspectives are provided to the user to allow the user to view and navigate through the environment at approximately eye level or “fly overâ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6907573 | Intelligent constraint definitions for assembly part mating One or more embodiments of the invention provide a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for defining mating properties of a graphical component in a computer-implemented drawing program. An option to create a first constraint interface for a first geometric... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6895555 | Image processing apparatus, method, and storage medium for controlling display of copyright-protected information An image processing apparatus is constructed by: a receiving unit for receiving scene data describing a 3-dimensional scene, media data associated with the scene data, and copyright-protected data; a scene decoder for forming copyright-protected scene data and copyr... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6690402 | Method of interfacing with virtual objects on a map including items with machine-readable tags Apparatus for accessing a displayable information resource and tailoring retrieved information to a user's requirements comprises a tag reader (18), a decoder (34) for identifying a coded resource address (38) carried by a tag (28), and access means for a... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6636249 | Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system, and providing medium The invention enables users to virtually attach information to situations in the real world, and also enables users to quickly and easily find out desired information. An IR sensor receives an IR signal transmitted from an IR beacon, and supplies the rece... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6621509 | Method and apparatus for providing a three dimensional graphical user interface A method and apparatus for providing a three-dimensional graphical user interface includes processing that begins by detecting selection of an information thumbnail of a plurality of information thumbnails. Note that the plurality of information thumbnail... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6616701 | Method and apparatus for identifying features of multidimensional image data in hypermedia systems In a method and apparatus for identifying features of multidimensional image data in hypermedia systems a multidimensional image, secondary image map and object index associate a program action with each object defined in an image.... | 09/09/2003 |
| 5821925 | Collaborative work environment supporting three-dimensional objects and multiple remote participants A collaborative work environment supports manipulating an object defined by a three-dimensional model by multiple remote participants. A three-dimensional model of the object is able to be translated, rotated and scaled in a work area of a whiteboard asso... | 10/13/1998 |
