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7522174 Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program for implementing image processing method, and recording medium recording program  
An image processing apparatus, method, program and recording medium can arrange images concentrically with respect to a circular label. image data and a type of an arrangement pattern of image data...
7522163 Method and apparatus for determining offsets of a part from a digital image  
A method for image recognition of a material object that utilizes graphical modeling of the corner points of a vertex which includes projecting a point on a digital display to an inward depth, a...
7518606 System and method for generating curved pipe objects for computer aided design models  
One embodiment of the invention provides a method for generating a curved pipe object in a computer-aided design drawing where the geometry of a curved pipe object is generally represented as a...
7508388 Method for extending the display of a 2D image of an object region  
In a method to extend the display range of 2D image recordings of an object region, particularly in medical applications, first 2D or 3D image data are acquired from a larger object region, and at...
7508392 Method for expanding the display of a volume image of an object region  
In a method for expanding the display of a volume image of an object region, in particular in medical applications, in which at least one first image data set of a larger object region is made...
7495801 Editing (including hue editing) of digital color images  
Color is edited using a color representation including digital values B (brightness), C (chroma) and H (hue) such that B=√{square root over (D 2 +E 2 +F 2 )}, cos C=D/B and tan H=E/F, where DEF...
7495800 Color coordinate systems including systems with a coordinate defined by a square root of a quadratic polynomial in tristimulus values and, possibly, by a sign of a function of one or more of tristimulus values  
Color is represented using digital values B (brightness), e and f such that B=√{square root over (D 2 +E 2 +F 2 )}, e=E/B, f=F/B, where DEF is a linear color coordinate system. Alternatively,...
7495675 Processing illustration artwork  
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing a computer graphics illustration having pieces of artwork.
7489317 Method and apparatus for anti-aliasing for video applications  
Antialiasing method and apparatus for video applications. A method for antialiasing a video graphic. A determination is first made as to the relative position of a desired pixel being within the...
7489420 Color editing (including brightness editing) using color coordinate systems including systems with a coordinate defined by a square root of a quadratic polynomial in tristimulus values and, possibly, by a sign of a function of one or more of tristimulus values  
Color is edited using a color representation including digital values B (brightness), e and f such that B=√{square root over (D 2 +E 2 +F 2 )}, e=E/B, f=F/B, where DEF is a linear color...
7489305 Touch screen control  
A digital imaging device is provided with a touch sensitive display screen 10 . The screen 10 displays an image 12 captured by the imaging device. Along one side of the screen is a toolbar 14...
7489313 Method of segmenting a three-dimensional data set allowing user corrections  
The invention relates to a method of segmenting a three-dimensional structure from a three-dimensional, and in particular medical, data set while making allowance for user corrections. The method...
7486418 Editing (including contrast and sharpness editing) of digital images  
In a digital image having pixels p i (i=1,2, . . . ) and a brightness B(p i ) at each pixel p i , the contrast editing is performed by replacing the brightness B(p i ) with B*(p i )=B avg 1−ε...
7486419 Editing (including saturation editing) of digital color images  
Color is edited using a color representation including digital values B (brightness), C (chroma) and H (hue) such that B=√{square root over (D 2 +E 2 +F 2 )}, cos C=D/B and tan H=E/F, where DEF...
7485041 Program for projecting an image onto a character in a game, game machine incorporating the program, and storage medium having the program stored thereon  
A program for pasting a predetermined image onto a character of a game in a game machine. The program enables a user to create an image consisting of two-dimensional coordinates and to arrange the...
7479965 Optimized alpha blend for anti-aliased render  
Circuits, methods, and apparatus that reduce the amount of data transferred between a graphics processor integrated circuit and graphics memory. Various embodiments of the present invention further...
7479957 System and method for scalable portrait video  
Generation, coding and transmission of an effective video form, scalable portrait video. As an expansion to bi-level video, portrait video is composed of more gray levels, and therefore possesses...
7478321 System and method for dynamically processing display information to combine display focus and context information in screen displays  
A system and method for processing a set of information in a screen display are provided. A set of information is obtained that includes a subset of information corresponding to search criteria. A...
7474308 Graphics system having a variable density super-sampled sample buffer  
A method and computer graphics system capable of super-sampling and performing real-time convolution are disclosed. In one embodiment, the computer graphics system may comprise a graphics...
7474316 Bit-depth extension of digital displays via the use of models of the impulse response of the visual system  
A dithering pattern that is generated based on a spatial operation is used for a Bit-Depth Extension (BDE) technique for preventing contouring artifacts in an image displayed by a display having a...
7468735 Transitioning between two high resolution images in a slideshow  
A method of transitioning between two high resolution images in a slideshow includes replacing a first image with a lower resolution copy of that first image and fading out the lower resolution...
7466314 Resolution-independent surface rendering using programmable graphics hardware  
Surfaces defined by a Bézier tetrahedron, and in particular quadric surfaces, are rendered on programmable graphics hardware. Pixels are rendered through triangular sides of the tetrahedra and...
7460133 Optimal hiding for defective subpixels  
A technique for the modification of sub-pixels to hide defects for defective sub-pixels.
7460132 System and method for motion adaptive anti-aliasing  
System and method for processing image data containing motion for display on a display device. A preferred embodiment comprises applying a filter to an input image, determining a presence of motion...
7460129 Manipulating text and graphic appearance  
A method, device and computer system for creating a smooth, continuous height (scalar or vector) field are described. The described techniques permit arbitrary closed regions to be smoothly shaded...
7460118 Image processor, image processing method and image processing program  
An image processing method and an image processor for drawing the movements of such linear objects as fur, hair, and grass of a turf being influenced by wind have not been proposed thus far. The...
7451457 Facilitating interaction between video renderers and graphics device drivers  
Facilitating interaction may be enabled through communication protocols and/or APIs that permit information regarding image processing capabilities of associated graphics hardware to be exchanged...
7439971 Mesh generation method for numerical simulation  
A mesh generating method for numerical simulation of one (1) piece of an analysis target, in a short time period, where there are plural numbers of high-density configuration data, each presenting...
7439970 Computer graphics  
A method of and apparatus for generating a graphical image of at least part of an object provided within a hierarchically divided region of space from a plurality of stored graphical...
7436411 Apparatus and method for rendering a video image as a texture using multiple levels of resolution of the video image  
A method and apparatus to generate one or more graphics textures of a video image, wherein graphics textures have differing resolutions, and to render the video image as a graphics texture using...
7436405 Terrain rendering using nested regular grids  
Plural levels of detail of a terrain are stored in memory in regular grids. In one such example, a terrain is cached in a set of nested regular grids obtained from the plural levels as a function...
7425955 Method for tracking depths in a scanline based raster image processor  
A method of rendering a scan line of a graphic object image in a scan line renderer for spans of pixels laying between consecutive x-ordered edges intersecting the scan line includes maintaining a...
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...
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...
7420560 Unique method for performing zoom-in and zoom-out operations with horizontal and vertical video decimation within a wireless device having a video display  
A method of presenting a selected portion of graphical images within a wireless terminal that includes receiving an original graphical image, having a source resolution, to be presented on a...
7420571 Method for processing a gray level in a plasma display panel and apparatus using the same  
A system and method for processing a gray level in a display device performs a random error diffusion operation on the video data using a first random coefficient value and a random dithering...
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...
7411592 Graphical processing of object perimeter information  
A technique for graphically processing perimeter information includes determining a polar representation of the perimeter of an object to define polar perimeter information, storing the polar...
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...
7411588 Display apparatus and information processing method  
A display apparatus for displaying a virtual image superposed upon a real world image, which can automatically set the focus of a lens to the virtual image, a virtual world image object having a...
7412362 River modeling  
Systems and methods are presented for real-time realistic river modeling. In one implementation, when provided with the physical features of a modeled terrain, the systems and methods described...
7400324 Computer graphics systems and methods for encoding subdivision triangular surfaces  
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...
7392133 Car navigation system  
A car navigation system by which a user can easily grasp a drop-in target in the course of a route. In a summary road map displayed in a two- or one-window display representation, contents of a...
7388585 Method, system and device for efficient distribution of real time three dimensional computer modeled image scenes over a network  
The present invention is related to a method, system and device for distributing in real time data related to three dimensional computer modeled images scenes over a network. To provide a faster...
7382380 On demand techniques for using data associated with a digital image suitable for rasterization at any resolution  
A mechanism that allows an image object to maintain state information that provides on-demand rasterization of its content to meet the needs of a specific application or output device is described....
7382377 Render to texture cull  
Method and apparatus for processing one or more fragment data. In one embodiment, the method includes processing one or more fragment data to generate one or more texture map addresses for one or...
7382370 System and method for smoothing and compression of polyline data  
A computer-implemented process for smoothing and compression of data having an ordered list of points including a first point, a second point and a third point, each of the points being on the...
7379061 Method and system for fault isolation within a network element in an optical network  
A method and system for fault isolation within a network element in an optical network is described. A single fault in the system can give rise to multiple alarms detected at multiple points....
7372471 System and method for single-sample virtual coverage anti-aliasing  
A graphics system has a mode of operation in which primitive coverage information is generated for real sample locations and virtual sample locations for use in anti-aliasing pixels. An individual...
7369140 System, apparatus and method for subpixel shifting of sample positions to anti-alias computer-generated images  
A system, apparatus, and method are disclosed for modifying positions of sample positions for selectably oversampling pixels to anti-alias non-geometric portions of computer-generated images, such...