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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7439991 | Image information presentation system, image information presentation method, medium storing image information presentation system program, and signal therefor An image information presentation system, wherein when all image information is read from a material memory 101 and is reduced by a listing control means 105 to be listed on a display means 102, the image information read by the listing control ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433842 | Method and system for effecting straight-through-processing of trades of various financial instruments A Straight-Through-Processing (STP) trading platform provides a fully electronic and seamless solution to all substantially aspects of the trading cycle for fixed income instruments and other financial instruments. In an exemplary embodiment, all participants to a t... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7383216 | Trust comparison process The system and method of the present invention comprises a process for comparing income, principle and expenses of an existing trust and a proposed trust. The process comprises selecting a period for which the comparison is desired, selecting a constant rate of inco... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7379915 | Electronic purse loan system When the amount of a loan of the user of an IC card is written to a personal information storage provided in a center and when the IC card is inserted into the slot of an electronic purse terminal at the time of a current transaction, the amount of the loan stored i... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379909 | System, method and apparatus for monitoring and execution of entry and exit orders An improved method and system to create and write a security trading strategy, back test the strategy and automatically execute and monitor the strategy in an Internet-based trading environment. The automated process automatically generates entry and exit orders and... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376622 | System and method for automated debiting and settling of financial transactions A method and system for automated settlement and on-line debiting of a financial transaction, such as an emergency-cash transaction, is provided. A bank customer enters a foreign-branch bank and indicates a need for emergency cash. The customer is given a telephone ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376614 | Clearing system for an electronic-based market A system for an electronic-based market is disclosed. The system operates with a model where a trader is designated to enter orders for contracts on behalf of a subscriber. The model uses assets of the subscriber that are placed into an account that is accessible by... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7349877 | Total return to shareholder analytics A computer-implemented method for analyzing the relative performance of a business unit includes: receiving financial data about the business unit; determining NOPLAT, revenue, capital charge, and invested capital values for the business unit at a first time and a s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7149720 | Systems for exchanging an obligation A system for exchanging an obligation between parties where the exchange is administered by a supervisory institution that ensures real-time settling of obligations between parties by updating shadow records in real-time and instructing one or more exchange institut... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7136833 | Communication network based system and method for auctioning shares on an investment product A communication network based system and method for auctioning shares of investment product is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment, an investment company pursuant to the Investment Company Act of 1940, creates a publicly registered investment product (e.g., a mut... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7099844 | Installation and method for trading in inflation Installation and method for performing a financial service comprising the following steps: (a) calculation of at least one inflation correction value for a desired coupon value CV in a year i making use of the coupon value CV and of future index data I | 08/29/2006 |
| 7076463 | System and method for providing decentralized E-commerce A system and method of decentralized e-commerce for searching and indexing non-standardized content is provided. The content is tagged with provider tags to identify content fields of information within the content and is stored remotely at one or more network locat... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7006992 | Risk assessment and management system A method of analyzing and presenting a series of risk factors associated with the operation of a business, such as a bank. Quantifiable risk factors are identified. Ranges of acceptable and unacceptable values for the factors are selected and arranged to each factor... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6900807 | System for generating charts in a knowledge management tool A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for generating a chart. A request for information is received from a user. A search for data relating to the request for information is performed in at least two geographically separated information repositori... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6856326 | Smooth scrolling system and method A system and method for smooth scrolling a document and/or window within a graphical user interface is disclosed. The present invention in some preferred embodiments permits augmentation of traditional LINE UP/DOWN, PAGE UP/DOWN, and manual THUMBTRACK scrolling with... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6856327 | Apparatus for moving display screen of mobile computer device An apparatus for moving a display screen by detecting the three-dimensional motion of the mobile computer device with acceleration sensors is disclosed. The apparatus includes a position detector for detecting a three-dimensional positional change of the mobile comp... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6812932 | Detector for detecting pseudo-contour noise and display apparatus using the detector A pseudo-contour noise detecting device for detecting pseudo-contour noise is provided. The pseudo-contour noise is embodied as contour lines appearing spuriously in a motion picture displayed such that a gradation display is performed by using a plurality of weight... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6801215 | Hardware-assisted visibility-ordering algorithm A hardware assisted system and method for computing a visibility ordering of a set of primitives and rendering the set of primitives is described, comprising the steps of and means for locating primitives potentially in a layer and removing occluded primitives from ... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6798423 | Precision perspective flight guidance symbology system A predictive flight path symbology system for increasing pilot situational awareness of an aircraft. The system includes a pilot display, and a precision pathway flight guidance (PPFG) symbology set displayed on the pilot display. The PPFG symbology set includes bro... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6795073 | Character reading circuit When a character is present in a line adjacent to a concerned section, bordering is applied to a dot in the concerned section adjacent to that line. To avoid unnecessary bordering, when processing a head line of the concerned part, data on the head line is read inst... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6791569 | Antialiasing method using barycentric coordinates applied to lines A method for computing normalized minor axis distance to an ideal line for variable-width line antialiasing. The method involves performing line primitive setup by constructing a triangle from the two line vertices and a third vertex biased from a line endpoint by t... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6792435 | Method and apparatus for recovering the definitions of dropped database objects A database management system maintains a system catalog for storing information regarding the data definitions of the managed data objects, where all information necessary for the recreation of the data definitions must be available or inferable from the stored info... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6778189 | Two-sided stencil testing system and method A system, method and computer program product are provided for two-sided stencil testing during graphics processing. Initially, primitives are received to be processed in a graphics processing pipeline. In use, it is then determined whether the graphics processing p... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6768494 | Interpolating objects to avoid hue shifts A method and system for correcting areas of a page that may produce hue shifts when executing a color conversion process on the page from a source color space to a destination color space. The page includes one or more objects including unspecified color points. The... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6768496 | System and method for generating an image from an image dataset and a video image In a system and a method for generating an image that contains superimposed or fused image data, a first system acquires an image dataset from a subject and a second system obtains a video image of the subject. The positions of the first, the second systems in the a... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6765577 | Apparatus and method for rotating on-screen display fonts An apparatus and method for rotating OSD fonts are disclosed. The OSD rotation device including a central processing unit, font addresses generator, memory, a font ROM, a decoder, a shift register, a output controller and output circuits, a synchronization signal ge... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6762768 | Method and apparatus for rendering an object using texture variant information A method and apparatus for rendering an object using texture variant information begins by determining at least one object invariant parameter based on at least one object parameter (i.e., the parameters used to render the object). The object invariant parameter may... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6731296 | Method and system for providing programmable texture processing A method and system for processing textures for a graphical image on a display is disclosed. The graphical image includes an object. The object includes a plurality of fragments. The method and system include providing a memory and providing a plurality of texture p... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6731302 | Method and apparatus for creating facial images The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for creating facial images, more particularly to a composite picture system and method utilising a library of basic facial components. In typical composite picture systems, the process of creating facial images incl... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6727909 | Image editing apparatus and method and medium on which programs are recorded An image editing apparatus for laying out images input by an image input device includes a layout device for laying out a plurality of images within one page, and an evaluation unit for evaluating the layout result obtained by the layout unit. In addition, an image ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6717586 | Apparatus, method, program code, and storage medium for image processing An accumulation buffer is cleared (S501), an real image is input (S502), a color buffer is cleared (S503), and the real image is drawn in the color buffer (S504). Then the viewpoint (including parameters concerning the viewpoint) and the ... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6707461 | Blending objects with different effect parameters A method of blending artwork objects. In the method, user input is received selecting a first parameter setting and a second parameter setting for an effect on an object. The first parameter setting, the second parameter setting and a blend parameter setting are pas... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6704738 | Technique for organizing data information in a network A technique for organizing data information in a network having a plurality of network stations is disclosed. In one embodiment, the technique is realized by having a first processing device store a representation of data at an address of a first of the p... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6690383 | Color calibration of displays The present invention provides methods and apparatus for the color calibration of displays. These methods are particularly useful for displays having properties different than those associated with cathode ray tubes (CRT). Some displays, for example liqui... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6664964 | Correlation criteria for logical volumes A system and method for determining whether activity graphs (hereinafter "graphs") for logical volumes of data storage are correlated. A number of correlation criteria are applied to the graphs, including the area ratio criteria determines whether an area... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6657638 | Data processing unit, data processing system, and data display control method The present invention provides a data processing unit which allows schedule data, address data, and so on, to be synchronized between a plurality of terminals each with its own screen display capability such as a screen size and available display colors a... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6657626 | Font controlling method and apparatus A font controlling method and apparatus in a so-called on-screen display (OSD), in which, when displaying letters or the like of different languages, well-balanced high-quality display that is easy and comfortable to see is enabled without abbreviating a ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6650334 | Optimizing texture tag checking for three-dimensional computer graphics A circuit for texture tag checking includes a first comparison gate which compares a first dimension field of a tag with a first dimension element for a group of texels associated with a sample point. A second comparison gate compares a second dimension f... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6650327 | Display system having floating point rasterization and floating point framebuffering A floating point rasterization and frame buffer in a computer system graphics program. The rasterization, fog, lighting, texturing, blending, and antialiasing processes operate on floating point values. In one embodiment, a 16-bit floating point format co... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6633301 | RGB illuminator with calibration via single detector servo A display system includes a light modulator divided into an array of individually controllable pixels and an input-driven illumination device. The illumination device is adapted to receive a variable input and is configured to direct light of variable int... | 10/14/2003 |
