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7239312 |
Method, apparatus and program for processing a three-dimensional image
An image processing apparatus and an image processing method reconstruct a three-dimensional image of an object which expresses a texture, glossiness, and three-dimensionality with realism. The...
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7239929 |
Hierarchical component based object recognition
The present invention provides a method for the recognition of objects in an image, where the objects may consist of an arbitrary number of parts that are allowed to move with respect to each...
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7239741 |
Image processing device executing image processing on input image and processing method for the same
An image processing device is composed of an image drawing section, an image input section, a corresponding-point searching section, and a processing parameter improving section. The image drawing...
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7236168 |
Method for removing blends in B-rep models
A computer-based feature suppression method is used in removing a blend chain formed by a set of blend faces, and creating a new model without the blend faces. Blend recognition is used to...
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7236167 |
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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7233326 |
Three dimensional modeling and animation system using master objects and modifiers
A three dimensional (3D) modeling system for generating a 3D representation of a modeled object on a display device of a computer system. The modeled object is represented by an initial definition...
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7233337 |
Method and apparatus for modeling and real-time rendering of surface detail
A method comprising generating a surface detail model using a modeling technique, and rendering surface detail in accordance with the developed surface detail model over an object surface. The...
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7230619 |
Use of sigma-weighted darkmaps for texture map processing
A respective weighting value is calculated for each texel in a texture map that is to be used to render a 3D computer model, the weighting value being calculated in dependence upon the red, green...
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7230617 |
Voxel center smoothing
A method of generating a pre-mesh includes locating a reference voxel, which is inside a surface of an object and is adjacent to a voxel outside the surface of the object. The method also includes...
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7224356 |
Stretch-driven mesh parameterization using spectral analysis
A method of performing stretch-driven mesh parameterization. A method of performing stretch-driven mesh parameterization comprising, computing a spectral analysis to parameterize a mesh, and...
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7224357 |
Three-dimensional modeling based on photographic images
A system of determining three-dimensional information from the information that is contained into discrete two-dimensional images. The two images may be obtained from two uncalibrated cameras. The...
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7225114 |
Information delivering system and information delivering method
The information delivering server for providing three-dimensional content is composed of a property information master storage device for storing the property information of the three-dimensional...
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7224360 |
Image display method, image processing method, image processing apparatus, scan capturing apparatus and image signal generation method
A plurality of captured images of a still subject are obtained by changing at least one of a position and a direction of illumination of a light source to illuminate the still subject. Sequenced...
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7215334 |
Method and system for supporting user in analyzing performance of object, using generalized and specialized models on computer
A method of supporting a user in mechanically analyzing a performance of an object, including the steps of: graphically displaying a generalized model which is constructed as a numerical analysis...
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7215340 |
Object space EWA splatting of point-based 3D models
A method renders a 3D model of a graphics object wherein the model includes discrete zero-dimensional points. A first opaque polygon is centered on each point, and the polygon is rendered to obtain...
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7212664 |
Constructing heads from 3D models and 2D silhouettes
A method reconstructs or synthesizes heads from 3D models of heads and 2D silhouettes of heads. A 3D statistical model is generated from multiple real human heads. The 3D statistical model includes...
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7212203 |
Systems and methods for voxel warping
Systems and methods for calculating a modification of a geometrical shape by applying an inverse modification function to an array representing the shape. An array representing the geometrical...
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7212201 |
Method and apparatus for segmenting an image in order to locate a part thereof
A method is disclosed to automatically segment 3D and higher-dimensional images into two subsets without user intervention, with no topological restriction on the solution, and in such a way that...
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7212688 |
Computer program and method for converting an image to machine control data
A method of transferring a representation of an image to a surface ( 12 ) of a building ( 14 ). The method comprising receiving the image as an image file, converting the image file to a raster...
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7209138 |
Image processing
A method of constructing a two-dimensional image includes receiving information describing a two-dimensional N-gon mesh of vertices and constructing an image by coloring at least some of the N-gons...
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7209137 |
Efficient triangular shaped meshes
The present invention renders a triangular mesh for employment in graphical displays. The triangular mesh comprises triangle-shaped graphics primitives. The triangle-shaped graphics primitives...
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7206729 |
Inertial field generator: a method for controllably coupling kinematic character motions to dynamically simulated elements
A method is described to let animators control the extent by which kinematically scripted character motions affect dynamically simulated objects' motions. The dynamic objects are connected to the...
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7206661 |
Persistent naming for sub-paths of intermittent fillet weld beads
A computing environment is provided with the ability to at least contribute to the persistent naming of the divided sub-paths, including their edges and vertices, of a continuous path of an...
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7203634 |
Computational geometry system, interrupt interface, and method
A computational geometry server is provided that includes a server, a communication link, at least one client, and an interrupt interface. The server has processing circuitry and an operation...
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7200251 |
Methods and systems for modeling objects and object image data using medial atoms
Methods and systems for modeling objects and object image data using medial atoms are disclosed. Objects and object image data can be modeled using medial atoms. Each medial atom includes at least...
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7200532 |
Subdivision surface-based geometric modeling system
A method for surface modeling of images to produce realistic images or to provide simulations with accurate surface information is provided. More particularly, the present invention relates to a...
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7196702 |
Geometric design and modeling system using control geometry
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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7197441 |
Method for generating progressive solid models based on cellular topology
Disclosed is a method for generating progressive solid models based on a cellular topology. A cellular model generating section 10, if a specific feature-based model is inputted, performs a...
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7196703 |
Primitive extension
Method and apparatus for generating a primitive extension defining a generalized primitive is described. The primitive extension defines the connectivity and vertices used to specify a collection...
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7197372 |
Apparatus and method for managing and distributing design and manufacturing information throughout a sheet metal production facility
An apparatus prepares data for manufacturing a product or a part with a pre-determined shape by using a bending press provided with detachable tools. The apparatus includes a computer memory that...
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7194125 |
System and method for interactively rendering objects with surface light fields and view-dependent opacity
A method renders a model of a 3D object. A polygon model of the 3D object is generated, and a set of input images are acquired of the object. For each vertex of the polygon model, a set of visible...
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7193633 |
Method and apparatus for image assisted modeling of three-dimensional scenes
A computer-assisted technique for constructing a three-dimensional model on top of one or more images (e.g., photographs) such that the model's parameters automatically match those of the real...
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7191020 |
Output service provision system, virtual object management terminal, mobile object, virtual object management terminal program, mobile object program, and output service provision method
This invention provides an output service provision system which is capable of allowing a user to easily receive a provided output service, providing an output service responsive to the user and...
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7190363 |
Method and system for processing graphics simulation data
A method and system for processing graphics simulation data is disclosed. Initially, a group of three-dimensional visual models to be rendered in a graphics simulation are constructed. Data that...
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7190364 |
System and method for polygon-smoothing in texture-based volume rendering
A system and method for polygon-smoothing in texture-based volume rendering is provided. The method comprises the steps of: downsizing a slice polygon and determining boundary polygons around the...
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7187378 |
Determining the convex hull of convex polygons with congruent corresponding angles
The convex hull of two polygons having congruent corresponding angles with the same orientation can be determined by analyzing the relationship of each vertex of one of the polygons relative to its...
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7184040 |
Early stencil test rejection
Early stencil rejection is used to improve throughput of a graphics processing pipeline. Early stencil rejection of some fragments may be performed prior to fragment shading using stencil test...
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7184038 |
Using render bin parallelism for rendering scene graph based graphics data
A system and method for rapid processing of scene-graph-based data and/or programs using a render bin is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system may be configured to generate a plurality of...
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7184052 |
Real-time texture rendering using generalized displacement maps
A “mesostructure renderer” uses pre-computed multi-dimensional “generalized displacement maps” (GDM) to provide real-time rendering of general non-height-field mesostructures on both open...
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7184039 |
Computer-implemented method for generating coarse level meshes for multi-resolution surface editing
An arrangement is disclosed for generating a coarse level mesh representing a surface, from a finer level mesh surface representation. The arrangement includes an indicator value generator and a...
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7184044 |
Electronic drawing viewer
Provided herein is a computer-based system for viewing a two-dimensional electronic drawing, including processes for pointing to similar components in different views, animation of views,...
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7181685 |
XML generator for objects with binary branching topology
A method for generating an XML file having a nesting structure equivalent to the topology structure of an object in an image. Under the method, the topology of an object having a structure...
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7176916 |
Object identifying system for segmenting unreconstructed data in image tomography
Tomographic projection data is segmented spatially by forming segmentation masks over the full outlines of objects appearing in isolation within selected data frame images. Further processing...
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7173622 |
Apparatus and method for generating 3D images
A method of representing n-dimensional parametric surfaces (animated shapes) is provided that expresses all shapes in a consistent manner to reduce storage requirements, support deformation and...
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7173615 |
Generating a mesh
A method of generating a mesh includes locating a reference voxel. The reference voxel is inside a surface of an object and is adjacent to at least one voxel outside the surface. The method also...
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7170512 |
Index processor
A graphic processor having an index processing unit for pre-processing a list of vertices making up a three-dimensional image. The method of pre-processing comprising the following steps. First,...
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7170511 |
Creating a parallel structure for scene-based rendering
A system and method for rapid processing of scene-graph-based data and/or programs is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system may be configured to utilize a scene graph directly. In another...
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7167174 |
Computer graphic system and method for efficiently encoding subdivision triangular surfaces of a triangular surface element and for recovering their coordinates
A system is described for generating a plurality of identifiers, each associated with one of a like plurality of subdivision surfaces of a surface element, and for generating, using an identifier...
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7167172 |
Method of segmenting a three-dimensional structure contained in an object, notably for medical image analysis
The invention relates to a method of segmenting a three-dimensional structure, contained in an object, from one or more two-dimensional images which represent a slice of the object. The method...
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7164957 |
Wire harness design aiding apparatus, method and computer readable recording medium storing program
A wire harness design aiding apparatus for designing a wire harness includes: a display unit for three dimensionally displaying an object on which the wire harness is to be arranged and the wire...
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