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7436404 Method and apparatus for rendering of translucent objects using volumetric grids  
A method for rendering an object includes determining illumination values for surface points on the object, associating a grid including vertices and voxels with the object, determining...
7433807 Facial image processing  
In the described embodiment, methods and systems for processing facial image data for use in animation are described. In one embodiment, a system is provided that illuminates a face with...
7432925 Techniques for representing 3D scenes using fixed point data  
A quantization transform, corresponding to a geometric object, is determined. The geometric object represents at least a portion of an object in a three-dimensional scene. The quantization...
7433510 Information presentation apparatus and information presentation system using the same  
A three-dimensional position posture relation detection unit detects a relation of relative three-dimensional position and posture between an image input unit and a target object using the image of...
7432924 3D digital subtraction angiography image processing apparatus  
A 3D image processing apparatus comprises a storing unit storing mask images corresponding to projection directions associated with a subject contrast images corresponding to the projection...
7433753 Virtual clothing modeling apparatus and method  
Trying on the clothes is simulated by processing an image sequence by using a posture dictionary, and a three-dimensional figure, obtained in advance, of a person who wishes to try on clothing. The...
7432935 Image synthesis methods and systems for generating sample points in a graphics scene  
The invention provides systems and computer-implemented methods for evaluating integrals using quasi-Monte Carlo methodologies, and in particular embodiments, adaptive quasi-Monte Carlo integration...
7432930 Displaying digital images  
A method of displaying a digital image comprises the steps of: providing a processor with image data for generating a displayable image, which image data is from a plurality of static digital...
7432932 External memory system having programmable graphics processor for use in a video game system or the like  
A video game system is described for use with a television type display device including a host video game system housing a game program processor and a programmable special purpose hardware...
7430312 Creating 3D images of objects by illuminating with infrared patterns  
According to a general aspect, processing images includes projecting an infra-red pattern onto a three-dimensional object and producing a first image, a second image, and a third image of the...
7428480 CAD analysis result data processing apparatus, analytic simulation apparatus, CAD analysis result data processing method and CAD analysis result data processing program  
A CAD analysis result data processing apparatus having analysis result data obtaining part for obtaining analysis result data of analytic simulation for dividing an object having a...
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...
7427991 System and process for digital generation, placement, animation and display of feathers and other surface-attached geometry for computer generated imagery  
A system and process for digitally representing a plurality of surface-attached geometric objects on a model. The system and process comprises generating a plurality of particles and placing the...
7425953 Method, node, and network for compositing a three-dimensional stereo image from an image generated from a non-stereo application  
A method of assembling a composite image comprising generating three-dimensional data defining a non-stereo image, assigning a first screen portion to a first rendering node, assigning a second...
7425951 Three-dimensional image display apparatus, method of distributing elemental images to the display apparatus, and method of displaying three-dimensional image on the display apparatus  
An apparatus is provided with a display unit and a optical filter. The unit has pixels arranged in a matrix form, which are grouped into a first group and second groups to display two-dimensional...
7425957 Computer graphics methods and systems using quasi-monte carlo methodology  
A computer graphics system generates a pixel value for a pixel in an image, the pixel value being representative of a point in a scene as recorded on an image plane of a simulated camera, the...
7425950 Web 3D image display system  
A Web-based 3D-image display system that downloads 3D-image files from a Web server and smoothly displays 3D -images on a Web browser. The Web-based 3D-image display system is provided with a Web...
7425954 Systems and methods for providing signal-specialized parametrization  
Systems and methods are provided for optimizing a parametrization scheme in accordance with information about the surface signal. A surface parametrization is created to store a given surface...
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...
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...
7423640 Method and system for panoramic display of medical images  
A method for displaying a medical image comprises selecting a point in a medical image, creating a panoramic digital image by propagating a plurality of rays from said selected point, wherein said...
7423641 Computer graphics systems and methods generating smooth feature lines for subdivision surfaces  
Computer graphics systems and methods are provided for generating a representation of a feature in a surface defined by a mesh representation, the mesh comprising at a selected level a plurality of...
7423645 System for softening images in screen space  
A graphics rendering system and method is disclosed, in which color values for certain pixels appearing on the screen may be adjusted to create a blurring effect. A pixel-by-pixel comparison may be...
7423644 Method and apparatus for dual pass adaptive tessellation  
A method and apparatus for dual pass adaptive tessellation includes a vertex grouper tessellator operably coupled to receive primitive information and an index list and a shader processing unit...
7421098 Facial recognition and the open mouth problem  
A method, for electronic face recognition using geodesic representations, of processing such a geodesic representation of a face having a mouth and being able to adopt open-mouthed or closed mouth...
7420556 Information processing method and information processing apparatus  
An information processing method and information processing apparatus facilitate selection of components which form a geometric model. Of a plurality of components which form a three-dimensional...
7421303 Parallel LCP solver and system incorporating same  
A Linear Complementarity Problem (LCP) solver is characterized by multiple execution units operating in parallel to implement a competent computational method adapted to resolve physics-based LCPs...
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...
7417568 System and method for data feed acceleration and encryption  
Systems and methods for providing accelerated transmission of broadcast data, such as financial data and news feeds, over a communication channel using data compression and decompression to provide...
7417634 Three dimensional display  
The invention provides an improved means for displaying computer generated hologram (CGH). Images appearing in the image volume are realised as a set of planar facets that approximate to the shape...
7417633 Workstation for processing and producing a video signal  
A workstation for processing and producing a video signal comprises a video input system, a video graphics processor, and a video output system. The video input system may comprise a video input...
7417635 Computational geometry using control geometry having at least two dimensions  
A method and system for computer aided design (CAD) is disclosed for designing geometric objects. The present invention interpolates and/or blends between such geometric objects sufficiently fast...
7414628 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...
7415156 Parametric shape grammar interpreter  
Parametric shape recognition is achieved through a decomposition of shapes into a hierarchy of subshapes ordered by their decreasing restrictions. Instances of each of the subshapes are...
7411587 Method and apparatus for three-dimensionally transforming two-dimensional linear data in accordance with three-dimensional topography data in real time and method and apparatus for three-dimensionally visualizing two-dimensional linear data together with three-dimensional topography data in real time  
A method and apparatus for three-dimensionally transforming two-dimensional linear data in real time and a method and apparatus for three-dimensionally visualizing the two-dimensional linear data...
7411590 Multimedia file format  
An automatically readable medium encoded with a time-based media file which comprises a factory object which uniquely identifies the instantiation of an object of a particular type. The factory...
7408546 System and method for displaying and comparing 3D models (“3D matching”)  
A system and method for displaying 3D data are presented. The method involves subdividing a 3D display region into two or more display subregions, and assigning a set of display rules to each...
7408560 System and method for dynamic propagation and display of graphical edits  
A system and method for improving user feedback during graphical edits by dynamically propagating each incremental edit through the dependency tree and displaying real-time updates to the graphic...
7407297 Image projection system and method  
A system and method of mapping and/or projecting images onto a three-dimensional architecture. In one aspect, the invention a method of mapping and/or projecting imagery onto a three-dimensional...
7408548 Triangulating procedural geometric objects  
A complex procedural surface can be expressed based on some constructive solid geometry operations performed on primitive procedural surfaces. The domain based representation of the complex...
7408545 Method and system for rendering concentric mosaics  
With an image-based rendering (IBR) system based on linear interpolated concentric mosaics, an observer is able to wander through a real or synthesized scene and have new view images (optionally...
7409259 Computer-assisted method for designing garments  
A method is provided for designing garments including the following steps: a) providing, via computer, at least one garment mold ( 13 ) made up of a basic three-dimensional surface, personified by...
7403201 Three-dimensional video providing method and three-dimensional video display device  
A transmitting-side device ( 1 ) generates an image data by performing an image analysis toward the actually photographed two-dimensional image ( 100 ) and also generates depth information useful...
7400322 Viewport-based desktop rendering engine  
Methods, apparatuses and systems directed, in one implementation, to a system of dynamically spawned, virtual, three-dimensional (3D) viewports which render transparently within the elements of, or...
7400329 Graphics images system and method  
A system for 3-dimensional gaming on a mobile handset is provided. The system includes a converter component operable to convert a pre-rendered 3-dimensional graphic image having 24-bit color...
7400325 Culling before setup in viewport and culling unit  
The VPC unit and setup unit of a graphics processing subsystem perform culling operations. The VPC unit performs culling operations on geometric primitives falling within a specific criteria, such...
7397473 Geometry based search method for 3D CAx/PDM repositories  
Traditional techniques of 3D data retrieval using names and subjective attributes are not robust and are difficult to automate over large 3D repositories. Certain techniques developed for search...
7397481 Image display method and image display system  
Real space image including a simple prototype created based on three-dimensional CAD data is captured by an image input apparatus. A position/orientation measuring apparatus measures positions and...
7397943 Method and arrangement for touchless detection of data of uneven surfaces  
A method for detecting data of an uneven surface of an object includes the following steps: illuminating at least one of stripes and a grid on the uneven surface using at least one light source;...
7398481 Virtual environment capture  
A system and method for capturing and modeling an environment is described. A user may direct a rangefinder within an environment to capture data points and correlate the data points with...