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7620528 Method and program for labeling multi material data  
The present invention includes an external data acquisition step (S 1 ), an external data input step (A), a cell division step (B), a cell classification step (C), a space classification step (D),...
7619628 Caching digital image data  
Methods and systems for processing digital image data utilizing vertically-oriented Effect graphs are provided. When processing digital image data utilizing Effect graphs, it is often necessary for...
7619622 Selective rendering for driver classes  
Described is a filtering mechanism/process that selectively controls whether graphics primitives are provided to a given driver. For example, graphics primitives of an accessibility (e.g.,...
7619214 Spectrometer chip assembly  
Method and apparatus for high field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry in an electronic chip assembly, including an input section, an ion filter and detection section and a control...
7617204 Conditional navigation through hierarchical lists  
The present invention provides a method and system for conditional navigation through hierarchical lists. Filtering parameters are associated with members in a list, such as a hierarchical list....
7617077 Method and apparatus for automatically discovering hierarchical relationships in planar topologies  
A CAD/GIS system that automatically discovers hierarchical relationships between root faces/parcels, smaller faces/parcels, and other defined areas of land. As the definitions are entered into the...
7617076 Method and system for forming a structure  
This invention relates to a method and systems to form structures from predefined elementary parts. In the invention at least two predefined elementary parts are combined for forming a desired...
7612910 Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information output control method, storage medium and program  
An information processing apparatus accurately and automatically determines whether a page to be printed out or rendered is a color page or a monochrome page. In order to efficiently output the...
7612776 Functions acting on arbitrary geometric paths  
A facility for evaluating a spreadsheet cell is described. The facility reads a function call stored in a spreadsheet cell. The function call specifies an arbitrary geometric path and an operation...
7609278 Detecting backward motion represented by a path  
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing graphical input. Input that specifies a path is received. The path includes multiple locations ordered along the...
7609257 System and method for applying link analysis tools for visualizing connected temporal and spatial information on a user interface  
A system and method for analyzing a plurality of data elements having both temporal and spatial properties, where a first data element and a second data element of the plurality of data elements...
7606375 Method and system for automatically generating world environmental reverberation from game geometry  
Reverberation parameters for one or more positions of interest are derived from graphics data used for displaying a computer-generated environment. For each position of interest for which...
7605811 Metaball drawing system, metaball drawing method, and memory medium storing metaball drawing program  
In a metaball drawing system, first and second metaballs are represented by first and second density distributions, and a threshold band is set with respect to the first and second density...
7602405 Multiple brush components  
In a brush tool of an electronic graphics design application, a single composite brush may include one or more brush components which are applied to the same stroke trail defined by a single pen...
7596468 Method for measuring a selected portion of a curved surface of an object  
A computer-implemented method for measuring a selected portion of a curved surface of an object is disclosed. The method includes the blocks of displaying a straight-line across an object,...
7595809 Method and system for determining an occlusion cost for concurrently presenting one or more images in a shared viewing region  
Methods and systems for determining an occlusion cost for concurrently presenting multiple images within a shared viewing region are described. Image saliency data is received for a first image to...
7595801 Complete function graphing system and method  
A system and method for graphing mathematical features of a given function within an optimum viewing window. The system and method can also highlight the mathematical features. Further, for...
7595798 Application sharing user interface improvements  
An improved application sharing system and method are described wherein shared window data is treated according to different sets of rules depending upon the fraction of the shared window data that...
7595797 Transforming a polygonized object into an implicit-function representation  
An image processing method using a computer includes extracting vertex coordinates (S 13 ) of a triangular-shaped polygon, setting a region (S 14 ) surrounding the triangular-shaped polygon (TP) on...
7589731 Graphics systems and methods  
Embodiments of graphics systems and methods are disclosed. In one method embodiment, a graphics method comprises receiving information about a line primitive and segmenting the line primitive with...
7584444 System and method for external-memory graph search utilizing edge partitioning  
A method and system is provided for generator successor nodes in an external-memory search of a graph having a plurality of nodes and outgoing edges of the plurality of nodes. The method and system...
7583262 Optimization of time-critical software components for real-time interactive applications  
A method for optimizing the performance of a time-critical computation component for a real-time interactive application includes the use of an algorithm having a precise logical thread and at...
7583196 Method and system for detecting a body in a zone located proximate an interface  
The invention concerns a method and a system for detecting a body ( 801 ) in a zone ( 802 ) located proximate an interface ( 803 ). The body is illuminated by an electromagnetic radiation ( 804 )...
7580938 Methods and apparatus facilitating efficient display of data  
A display function associated with a storage area network manager process initiates display of a respective hierarchical tree including elements of a storage area network. The hierarchical tree can...
7580038 System and method of caching glyphs for display by a remote terminal  
A method and system of operating a remote terminal by a terminal server caches representation data of glyphs to be displayed on the remote terminal to reduce the amount of glyph data that have to...
7576746 Methods and systems for rendering computer graphics  
Methods and systems for enabling components of a computer graphics rasterization pipeline to be arbitrarily ordered are described. Various embodiments can permit a programmer to specify the order...
7576733 Touch screen image setting frame  
A touch screen image setting frame configured to be placed over a monitor having a touch screen overlay, including an inner perimeter that defines an opening in the touch screen image setting...
7574371 Medical diagnosis management system  
A computerized medical diagnosis management system includes a central computer system comprising a data processor; at least one data interface operatively coupled to the data processor and...
7570274 Method and system for presenting different views to passengers in a moving vehicle  
Systems and methods for presenting images in a vehicle as the vehicle rotates about a rotation axis are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a signal receiving portion that receives a...
7567258 Hardware-accelerated anti-aliased vector graphics  
In order to render a primitive, the primitive is subdivided into trapezoids and triangles. The subdivision occurs using scanline-aligned lines. These simple scanline-aligned regions are further...
7564468 Method and system for presenting an image of an external view in a moving vehicle  
Methods and systems for processing images corresponding to views external to a vehicle are disclosed. A system in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes first and second signal...
7564457 Shot shading method and apparatus  
A method for a computer system includes determining first shading results associated with a geometric object in response to first shading computations and first shading data associated with the...
7564456 Apparatus and method for raster tile coalescing  
A graphics pipeline rasterizes primitives and generates a stream of groups of pixels, such as a stream of pixel quads. A tile coalesce unit received the stream of groups of pixels and generates...
7558421 Distortion correcting rendering techniques for autostereoscopic displays  
Characterization of hologram elements (hogels) produced using specially designed test pattern images provides more accurate information that can be used to render images for use in hogel...
7554550 Non-destructive processing of digital image data  
Systems for rendering Effect graphs for non-destructively processing digital image data which integrate Central Processing Unit (CPU) processing and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) processing are...
7554538 Video processing, such as for hidden surface reduction or removal  
Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices, and/or systems for video processing, such as for hidden surface removal or reduction, are described.
7545372 Method and system for imaging a patient's teeth arrangement  
The invention provides a method and system for obtaining a three-dimensional representation of a patient's teeth arrangement. A three-dimensional physical teeth model is provided, having a surface...
7543247 Efficient method of migrating Lotus Domino documents to a non-Domino web server, while preserving sections, using portable javascript  
A method of mirroring Lotus Notes Domino documents to a non-Domino web server, while preserving document sections. Each request for expansion or collapsing of a section is handled at the client end...
7542032 Virtual painting system and paint spray gun  
The invention concerns a virtual painting system for simulating a paint application process and the resulting application of paint to a surface. The system includes a virtual paint applicator...
7538768 Image display device utilizing 3D protecting process by detecting a parallax value  
An image display device capable of displaying an images on right and left image display elements ( 26 I, and 26 R) by receiving right and left image signals for displaying three-dimensional images...
7538764 System and method to obtain surface structures of multi-dimensional objects, and to represent those surface structures for animation, transmission and display  
Four related but independent aspects are described: (1) a method and a system to derive mesh surface descriptions (also called connectivity-wireframes) and material properties from objects...
7532133 Methods and apparatuses for generating and recovering 3D compression data  
A method of generating three-dimensional (3D) compression data, and an apparatus to perform the method, the method including generating configuration information of the 3D compression data;...
7526456 Method of operation for parallel LCP solver  
A method of operating a Linear Complementarity Problem (LCP) solver is disclosed, where the LCP solver is characterized by multiple execution units operating in parallel to implement a competent...
7525565 3D video conferencing  
A 3D video conferencing station ( 200, 300, 500, 700 ) comprises: a camera ( 104 ) for acquiring a first ( 604 ) and second ( 602 ) image of a first user ( 110 ); and optical means for visualizing...
7523464 Web based video enhancement apparatus, method, and article of manufacture  
Controlling an event in a virtual environment is disclosed. A video image from one or more video cameras is received. A video enhanced script is executed to display the virtual environment in a...
7522165 Method and system for a computer-rendered three-dimensional mannequin  
A human body is three-dimensionally reproduced to create a computer-rendered model. The model is dynamically manipulable to adjust or customize the dimensions of the model to specified...
7519438 Method and a tool for calculating and displaying fault response tolerances for a power switching device  
A method and tool for an integrated power switching device configuration tool and fault response tolerance calculator determines the fault response tolerance characteristics of a power switching...
7518607 Hidden-line removal method  
A hidden-line removal method is provided which is executed in an image processing apparatus. The method includes the steps of extracting portions of the polygons contained in each of the divided...
7518605 Mode support systems and methods  
Mode support systems and methods. The system comprises a storage device and an editing unit. The storage device comprises a first mode list comprising a plurality of display modes. The editing unit...
7508400 Digital map data processing system  
A digital map data processing system is described that improves the appearance of a map without increasing the labor in automatic generation of road polygons required for generation of map data....