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5847712 |
Method and system for generating graphic illustrations according to a stroke texture and a tone
A method and apparatus for generating an illustration having the steps of inputting a plurality of strokes in an area having a designated dimension, assigning a texture and tone to the area, where...
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5825998 |
Method for controlling the level of detail displayed in a computer generated screen display of a complex structure
A method for controlling the level of detail displayed in a computer generated screen display of a complex structure in which the structure is modeled as a root volume bounding all of the parts of...
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5818417 |
Automatic virtual display panning circuit for providing VGA display data to a lower resolution display and method therefor
A circuit and method for providing VGA display data to a display of lower resolution, such as an LCD panel, is disclosed. The circuit detects a write to the Frame Buffer that stores the full...
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5812139 |
Method and apparatus for graphic processing including anti-aliasing and flicker removal
In order to reduce the amount of computation processing and simplify processing, a graphic processor apparatus includes a graphic signal generator circuit for generating video images such as...
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5812140 |
Efficient gray tile storage
A method building a tile of pixels usable by a marking routine in a raster output device to mark an output device pixel according to a sample value. The method includes the steps of receiving the...
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5793379 |
Method and apparatus for scaling images having a plurality of scan lines of pixel data
A method of processing a digital input image having a plurality of scan lines of pixel data into an interpolated digital output image by interpolating the pixel data in each scan line of the...
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5790708 |
Procedure for image processing in a computerized system
A method for image processing in a computerized system reduces the amount of memory required for image processing and produces a layered effect which permits complex manipulation such as scaling...
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5781195 |
Method and system for rendering two-dimensional views of a three-dimensional surface
A method and system for rendering a two-dimensional image of a three-dimensional surface in real time directly from surface-feature data stored in computer-readable format. A two-dimensional screen...
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5781196 |
Video compression by extracting pixel changes exceeding thresholds
A video processing system employs a microcomputer 11 which functions to effecting real-time on-screen functions on original video images for storage on an optical disc 28. The system employs an...
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5777621 |
Quality control mechanism for three-dimensional graphics rendering
A graphics rendering system includes a continuum, or collection, of quality control data groups, each of which contains a plurality of quality control type variables. Each of the type variables...
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5777622 |
Method for identifying invisible objects ordered in a tree-like data structure by finding adjoining hidden objects
A method for identifying invisible objects that are ordered in a tree-like data structure in which a drawing program displays object data on a display device and a user selects a viewing area of...
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5774130 |
Computer animation generator creating hierarchies of models for rapid display
A drawing method of computer graphics in which an approximation of a model is executed in consideration of a target point of the observer, a position of model, a size of model on a picture plane,...
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5748866 |
Virtual display adapters using a digital signal processing to reformat different virtual displays into a common format and display
A universal computer display adapter is provided for a computer having a first memory accessed by applications running on the computer. Each such application acquires a portion of such first memory...
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5748867 |
Image texturing system having theme cells
An image texturing system utilizes theme cells to generate terrain image data area-by-area for a dynamic terrain display. The system is effective in flight simulation apparatus, as for training...
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5745666 |
Resolution-independent method for displaying a three-dimensional model in two-dimensional display space
A method for rendering a graphics image of a three-dimensional graphics model is described. The method consists of the steps of projecting a parametric surface representation of the...
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5736971 |
Method and apparatus for increasing resolution of a computer graphics display
The graphic board can be mounted inside the expansion slot of the computer, and the frequencies of the horizontal synchronizing signal and the vertical synchronizing signal can be preset finely...
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5724456 |
Brightness adjustment of images using digital scene analysis
A system and method for processing a digital image signal which represents an image can be made to optimally map luminance values versus a tonal reproduction capability of a destination...
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5719594 |
Method and system in a data processing system for improved video image resolution when enlarging a video sequence
A method and system in a data processing system are disclosed for improving video sequence image resolution when creating an enlarged final image from an initial image included within the video...
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5715384 |
Real-time image display method and apparatus displaying two different visual resolutions
Real-time image processing apparatus and method for displaying two different visual resolutions includes structure and steps for detecting a position on a display screen at which an operator is...
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5712966 |
Medical image processing apparatus
A medical image processing apparatus includes a color video monitor (image displaying device) 3 and an arithmetic and control circuit 4. When the apparatus is supplied with electric power and...
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5706451 |
Displaying a subsampled video image on a computer display
Apparatus for displaying a reduced-size image in a window of the display of a host computer, the reduced-size image based upon subsampled digital image data. The apparatus includes a host computer...
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5699497 |
Rendering global macro texture, for producing a dynamic image, as on computer generated terrain, seen from a moving viewpoint
A dynamic terrain display is created from digitized grid post data as a height field, that is textured using maps embracing progressively larger areas with increasing remoteness from the viewpoint....
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5694331 |
Method for expressing and restoring image data
A method for expressing image data and for image restoration does not depend on the format of input/output devices, does not suffer from block distortion in the restored image, provides superior...
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5689343 |
Area mapping employing reference clusters for high quality noninteger resolution conversion with enhancement
A method and apparatus for converting the resolution of an input image to a higher resolution that is a noninteger multiple of the input resolution. The method and apparatus employ either an...
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5687307 |
Computer graphic animation in which texture animation is independently performed on a plurality of objects in three-dimensional space
An image processing apparatus which enables three-dimensional modeling and a full variety of computer graphic animation. For this purpose, the apparatus inputs three-dimensional data of a plurality...
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5673376 |
Method and apparatus for graphically generating images of arbitrary size
A system and method that generates computer graphic images using anti-aliasing rendering to create sets of offset images each of a lower resolution than the resolution desired. The anti-aliasing...
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5666475 |
Method and system for editing multiresolution images at fractional-levels of resolution using a wavelet representation
A method and apparatus for editing an image having different levels of resolution in different places. The method has the steps of inputting data representing the image, displaying at least a...
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5661824 |
Magnifying digital image using mapping
A method of magnifying a digital image based on an edge map. The image has many original pixels, with each pixel having a level, and the locations of the pixels having a resolution. The method to...
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5659671 |
Method and apparatus for shading graphical images in a data processing system
The present invention provides an apparatus for displaying an image of an object, as illuminated by a light source, on a display within a computer graphics display system. The image is graphically...
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5651104 |
Computer graphics system and process for adaptive supersampling
A computer graphics system is defined using supersampling of multi-level pixel characteristic data. The system provides a detailed anti-aliased display of the texture on surfaces defined at oblique...
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5636336 |
Graphics processing unit for use with a stylus pen and tablet, and method therefore
An instruction for transformation processing of an image is detected. An instruction for specifying a targeted image which will be the object of transformation processing is detected. An...
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5621429 |
Video data display controlling method and video data display processing system
A video data display controlling method and system in which an image in each image area or in each partial image area of each image area to be displayed on a display screen and designated by a user...
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5616079 |
Three-dimensional games machine
An objective of the present invention is to provide a 3D games machine that can form a high-quality pseudo-3D image in real time. Segmented map information relating to a map that configures a game...
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5612715 |
System and method for dynamically adjusting display resolution of computer generated displays
A computer system that supports an advanced operating system and advanced application programs that create high resolution images for display and further supports old operating system and...
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5613051 |
Remote image exploitation display system and method
A system and method for storing image data in a location remote from a display device which uses the data. The system uses plural reduced resolution image data sets and geographical coordination...
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5606650 |
Method and apparatus for storage and retrieval of a texture map in a graphics display system
A method and apparatus for simultaneous retrieval of multiple pixels from a texture map storage means. Multiple texture maps are generated and stored in a modified M/P (multum in pravo--many things...
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5586233 |
Method and apparatus for creating multi-gradation data
Method and apparatus for creating multi-gradation data. The method and apparatus generates data having pixel values for respective pixels which comprise each of a plurality of characters in a font,...
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5579450 |
Image processing apparatus involving comparison of densities of three contiguous pixels
A graphics accelerator decides pixel densities using an anti-aliasing process for left and right edges of a figure in an image, and for sending resulting pixel density data to a frame memory. The...
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5577960 |
Image synthesizing system and game playing apparatus using the same
A real-time display type image synthesizing system which can display a 3-D object with less polygons and with high resolution is provided. The 3-D object data is stored in a 3-D object data storage...
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5568597 |
Adapting image data resolution to match resolution of an output device
Binary data are obtained on data of reference pixels included in the upper and below lines of an interpolated pixel through binarizing circuits by comparing with the threshold value determined...
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5566283 |
Computer graphic image storage, conversion and generating apparatus
A computer graphic image generating apparatus for generating an image based on a computer graphic model including shape information, camera information, camera position information, object position...
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5559936 |
Data retrieval system, display apparatus and method of recording and displaying
An interactive data retrieval system based on a personal computer is provided which comprises a database and a CD-ROM which is arranged to select and display visual images of product literature of...
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5557691 |
Image processing system
An image processing system which includes a storage device that stores drawing information corresponding to the resolution, the stored drawing information being changeable when the resolution of...
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5555360 |
Graphics processing apparatus for producing output data at edges of an output image defined by vector data
A graphics processing apparatus carries out an antialiasing for obtaining an output image having smooth edges, enabling a speedy computation of approximate shading area rates of pixels by making...
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5555354 |
Method and apparatus for navigation within three-dimensional information landscape
A method and apparatus for navigating within a three dimensional graphic display space and manipulating information and data represented by objects in display space. The method and apparatus...
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5542038 |
Method and system for generating dynamic zoom codes
Circuitry for altering a received data stream as a function of a received factor, the received factor indicative of an output format of the received data stream. Included within the circuitry is a...
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5539667 |
Method and apparatus for improved digital film recorder
The invention discloses a method and apparatus for an improved digital film recorder. The improved recorder is capable of quantizing and recording high resolution images, in order to reduce...
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5535018 |
Information processing apparatus
An information processing apparatus for accumulating image information consisting of n pixels and effecting the processing of output of the information is provided with a plurality of memory...
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5528740 |
Conversion of higher resolution images for display on a lower-resolution display device
A system for converting a high-resolution bitonal bit map representation of a document to a lower-resolution pixel representation for display. A special subset of the high resolution output is...
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5522023 |
Method for representing characters constructing texts in dot pattern and modifying the dot density and transmitting texts
A method for representing characters constructing texts in a dot pattern and modifying the dot density to transmission. The method is realized by transmitting texts according to steps of storing...
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