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US20090303231 Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Manipulating Three-Dimensional Virtual Objects  
An electronic device with a touch screen display, a computer-implemented method, and a graphical user interface for navigating in three-dimensional virtual spaces and manipulating three-dimensional...
US20090303024 Image Processing Apparatus, Driving Support System, And Image Processing Method  
An image processing apparatus includes: a guide superimposition portion that obtains a photographed image taken by an imaging device from the imaging device incorporated in a vehicle and...
US20090303233 Systems and Methods for Imaging a Three-Dimensional Volume of Geometrically Irregular Grid Data Representing a Grid Volume  
Systems and methods for imaging a 3D volume of geometrically irregular grid data. The systems and methods utilize various types of probes and displays to render the geometrically irregular grid...
US20090303232 DISPLAY APPARATUS  
A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display panel that displays at least one of a two dimensional (2D) image and a three dimensional (3D) image, and a driver that is...
US20090303230 Surface parameterization method  
A method ( 200 ) for performing surface parameterization using a divide and conquer strategy is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a surface is divided into two arbitrary parts ( 220 ). Each...
US20090295795 Oral Implant Template  
A method for producing an artifact-corrected image of negative jaw impression in a recipient jaw comprising, forming a negative impression of said recipient jaw, producing a first digital image of...
US20090295792 VIRTUAL PETROLEUM SYSTEM  
A method of rendering three dimensional visualizations of two dimensional geophysical data includes converting each of a plurality of two dimensional data sets into a respective two dimensional...
US20090296999 Breast Tissue Density Measure  
Mammogram images are processed by computer to derive automatically a value for a parameter useful in detecting differences in breast tissue in subsequent images of the same breast or relative to a...
US20090295794 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATING MODES OF GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT  
An operating mode controlling method is used with a graphics processing unit of a computer system. The graphics processing unit includes a plurality of stream processors. The operating mode...
US20090297001 Method And Apparatus For Mapping A Structure  
An area of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or...
US20090295793 Method and system for 3D surface deformation fitting  
A method is provided for animating a three-dimensional object using an animation rig. An exemplary method according to the invention is a method that defines a positional relationship between the...
US20090295790 Method and Devices for Generating, Transferring and Processing Three-Dimensional Image Data  
Three-dimensional digital image data comes from a stereographic imaging arrangement ( 501, 502, 1201 ) that takes a first raw image ( 601 ) along a first optical axis and a second raw image ( 602 )...
US20090295791 THREE-DIMENSIONAL ENVIRONMENT CREATED FROM VIDEO  
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates constructing a three-dimensional (3D) virtual environment from two-dimensional (2D) content. A 3D virtual environment...
US20090289945 CENTRALIZED STREAMING GAME SERVER  
Exemplary embodiments include an interception mechanism for rendering commands generated by interactive applications, and a feed-forward control mechanism based on the processing of the commands on...
US20090293003 Methods for Interactively Displaying Product Information and for Collaborative Product Design  
A system for interactively displaying and distributing information. The information may relate to consumer products, any type of article of commerce, marketing and advertising layouts, floor plans,...
US20090289937 MULTI-SCALE NAVIGATIONAL VISUALTIZATION  
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates providing navigational assistance. An immersive view can include image data that can represent a computer displayable...
US20090285465 JOINT RECONSTRUCTION PLANNING USING MODEL DATA  
The invention relates to a computer-assisted planning method for reconstructing changes in shape on joint bones, comprising the following steps: a three-dimensional patient data set is acquired;...
US20090284523 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR ACCELERATING INTERSECTION TESTING IN RAY-TRACING RENDERING  
For ray tracing scenes composed of primitives, systems and methods accelerate intersection testing by testing rays against elements of geometry acceleration data (GAD) arranged in a graph of nodes,...
US20090284525 HIGH FIDELTY ANAGLYPHS UTILIZING A FAR-RED PRIMARY COLOR  
Four primary colors may be used to render anaglyphs with a full color gamut. The first image of a stereoscopic pair may be rendered in three primary colors while the second image of a stereoscopic...
US20090284553 METHOD OF DEFINING A GAME ZONE FOR A VIDEO GAME SYSTEM  
The invention relates to a method of defining a game zone for a video game system. The system comprises a remotely-controlled vehicle ( 1 ) and an electronic entity ( 3 ) for remotely controlling...
US20090284526 RENDERING MULTIPLE CLEAR RECTANGLES USING A PRE-RENDERED DEPTH BUFFER  
According to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus, computer program code and means are provided to set a first depth value associated with a plurality of pixels of a video image comprising...
US20090284524 Optimized Graphical Calculation Performance by Removing Divide Requirements  
By employing a scaled method for calculating the intersection of a ray with two bounding planes, divide operations may be avoided, which may result in fewer clock cycles and, possibly simplified...
US20090281880 Method and Apparatus for Measuring Seller's Performance  
A method and apparatus for measuring a seller's performance in the sale of accessory goods comprising determining the attachment rate of the goods, determining the average selling price of the...
US20090278843 COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL CARTONS WITH CURVED CREASES  
A method, a computer readable medium with instructions to execute a method, and a carton designed using a method. The method includes accepting a specification of a carton made up of a substrate...
US20090278844 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING 3D MESH INFORMATION INCLUDING STITCHING INFORMATION  
Provided are encoding and decoding stitching information generated when the 3D mesh model that is the non-manifold or non-orientable model is converted into orientable and manifold models upon...
US20090278841 MANAGING USE LIMITATIONS IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE RESOURCE CONSERVATION REGION  
A virtual universe can include regions that conserve natural resource usage. A virtual universe natural resource conservation system (“system”) can determine that an avatar is accessing a...
US20090278842 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZED STREAMING GAME SERVER  
Exemplary embodiments include an interception mechanism for rendering commands generated by interactive applications, and a feed-forward control mechanism based on the processing of the commands on...
US20090274352 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROSCOPIC MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY  
A method comprises performing a first T2-weighted imaging (T2WI) on a subject; injecting the subject with a contrast agent after performing the first T2WI; and waiting a predetermined period of...
US20090273599 Systems and methods for imaging relationship data in a three-dimensional image  
Systems and methods for imaging relationship data as a three-dimensional image, which include rendering a three-dimensional image of an object having at least one attribute, an input marker...
US20090273600 DESIGN SUPPORTING APPARATUS AND DESIGN SUPPORTING METHOD  
A design supporting apparatus calculates, based on flexible object model data as data concerning a flexible object fixed at least at two points, oscillation characteristic data as data concerning...
US20090274375 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ALIGNING AND CLASSIFYING IMAGES  
In one embodiment, L dimensional images are trained, mapped, and aligned to an M dimensional topology to obtain azimuthal angles. The aligned L dimensional images are then trained and mapped to an...
US20090273598 Methods and apparatuses for automatically converting objects in CAD drawing from two-dimensions to three-dimensions  
Methods, apparatuses/systems, and software for converting graphic objects representing two-dimensional beams or columns within a drawing into three-dimensional beams or columns by locating all...
US20090273601 Image Presentation Method and Apparatus for 3D Navigation and Mobile Device Including the Apparatus  
Provided are a high-performance, real-time image presentation method and apparatus for a 3-dimensional (3D) navigation system that may be used in a mobile environment since a small amount of data...
US20090267937 FLOATING TRANSITIONS  
A computer implemented method and apparatus for floating object transitions. In one embodiment, tracking data identifying a location of an avatar in relation to a range of an object in a virtual...
US20090267939 INPUT DEVICE OF COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING COMPUTER SYSTEM  
An input device of a computer system and a method for operating the computer system are provided. In the method for operating the computer system, a motion state of the input device in...
US20090267938 THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) VIRTUAL WORLD WORMHOLES  
A three dimensional (3D) virtual world wormhole includes hosting a 3D virtual world, and creating a wormhole at a selected location in the 3D virtual world for automatic transport of an avatar from...
US20090267940 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CURVED MULTI-SLICE DISPLAY  
A method of generating a curved multi-slice display ( 50 ) comprises selecting a multi-planar reconstruction (MPR) source view from ultrasound data representative of a 3D volume of at least one...
US20090262108 STREAMING GEOMETERY FOR USE IN DISPLAYING AND EDITING 3D IMAGERY  
Method and systems are provided using streaming geometry in 3D imagery production. In one implementation a method for use in the display of 3D video images comprises receiving a first set of data...
US20090262107 DYNAMIC CREATION OF VIRTUAL REGIONS  
In various embodiments, virtual universe regions are dynamically generated within a virtual universe based on user requests. Dynamic generation allows virtual universe users or “residents” to...
US20090262603 Method for characterizing a geological formation traversed by a borehole  
Methods for characterizing a geological formation, the methods include retrieving measured data provided by a measuring tool along one or more logged borehole length for a borehole, another...
US20090262109 ILLUSTRATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL NATURE OF A DATA SET ON A TWO-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY  
A volume of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or...
US20090262183 Three-dimensional image obtaining device and processing apparatus using the same  
An optical flux is radiated, which is focused at a measurement point in a specimen space, and a transmitted light amount is measured. A minute light absorption amount is measured from a transmitted...
US20090256840 Panning Using Virtual Surfaces  
The present invention relates to panning a virtual camera in a three dimensional environment. In an embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method pans a virtual camera in a...
US20090256836 HYBRID RENDERING OF IMAGE DATA UTILIZING STREAMING GEOMETRY FRONTEND INTERCONNECTED TO PHYSICAL RENDERING BACKEND THROUGH DYNAMIC ACCELERATED DATA STRUCTURE GENERATOR  
A circuit arrangement and method provide a hybrid rendering architecture capable of interfacing a streaming geometry frontend with a physical rendering backend using a dynamic accelerated data...
US20090256838 METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR CREATING A PRESET MAP FOR THE VISUALIZATION OF AN IMAGE DATASET  
A method for creating a preset map for the visualization of an image dataset is provided. The method comprises dynamically adapting the preset map based on image dataset properties resulting in an...
US20090256837 DIRECTING CAMERA BEHAVIOR IN 3-D IMAGING SYSTEM  
A method of associating a computer generated camera with an object in a three-dimensional computer generated space. The method receives a command to associate the camera with an object in the...
US20090256839 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING PERFORMANCE VENUE SEAT SELECTION  
Seat selection for prospective spectators at a performance venue is facilitated by displaying virtual views of the performance space from any selected seat. The virtual seat views can be...
US20090252287 Operating method for a swiveling polyplanar imaging system for time-resolved imaging of an object being examined  
An operating method for a polyplanar imaging system for time-resolved imaging of an object is provided. First and second data records are recorded at a fan angle β from different angular positions...
US20090251462 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESH DISTANCE BASED GEOMETRY DEFORMATION  
A method of manipulating at least a portion of a character model into a pose involving a library data having a plurality of deformations, where each deformation is associated with index values of...
US20090251460 Systems and methods for incorporating reflection of a user and surrounding environment into a graphical user interface  
Described are systems and methods for incorporating the reflection of a user and surrounding environment into a graphical user interface (“GUI”). The resulting reflective user interface helps...