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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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