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6614432 |
Image rendering technique
A method renders a graphical object for display on a destination raster of pixels having a destination resolution by rendering the graphical object at a resolution higher than the destination...
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6611267 |
System and method for computer modeling of 3D objects or surfaces by mesh constructions having optimal quality characteristics and dynamic resolution capabilities
A system and method for the rapid creation of an optimized mesh model of a real world object, terrain or other three-dimensional surface. The mesh construction technique provides dynamic “up...
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6603471 |
Reducing detail in animated three-dimensional models
Details are reduced in a three-dimensional (3D) model by performing a detail reduction process on the 3D model in plural positions and generating a master list of details to be removed from the 3D...
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6587109 |
System and method for real-time scalability of 3D graphics based on internet bandwidth and CPU speed
A system and method facilitating the production, processing, and Internet distribution of 3D animated movies including 3D multipath movies. A key reduction algorithm reduces the keyframes...
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6587106 |
Computer graphics apparatus having an improved walk-through function
A computer graphics apparatus includes a walk-through function to simulate with a computer the concept of walking through a structure such as a building. Display processing time and calculation...
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6587107 |
Device and method for accurately obtaining measurement data for pool covers and other objects
A device and method of visually confirming at a work site the accuracy of measurements representing the shape of an object such as a pool for the creation of a form fitted pool cover. The device...
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6577311 |
Techniques for automatically providing a high-resolution rendering of a low resolution digital image in a distributed network
In one embodiment, a method of providing a recipient of a low-resolution digital image a way to automatically obtain a high-resolution rendering of the digital image is disclosed. In one...
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6577991 |
Recordable method of processing figure
A method of processing a figure and a recorded medium are used to obtain an enlarged figure or a reduced figure by moving the sides of a polygon, which is composed by putting a plurality of...
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6577312 |
Graphics system configured to filter samples using a variable support filter
A computer graphics system may comprise a graphics processor, a sample buffer, and a sample-to-pixel calculation unit. The graphics processor renders samples into the sample buffer in response to...
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6574617 |
System and method for selective replication of databases within a workflow, enterprise, and mail-enabled web application server and platform
A workflow, enterprise, and mail-enabled application server and platform supports distributed computing and remote execution of web applications. Lotus Domino online services (DOLS) is used by a...
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6570568 |
System and method for the coordinated simplification of surface and wire-frame descriptions of a geometric model
A system simplifies a geometric model to accelerate the rendering of the geometric model. A surface description of the geometric model is stored in one or more of the system memories. A wire-frame...
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6570567 |
System and method for using a graphical interface for the presentation of genealogical information
A system and method of displaying a pedigree chart are described. The system allows for the adjusting of the resolution of the pedigree chart on the display. For example, the amount of information...
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6571171 |
Method and apparatus for graphically inserting waypoints for a flight management system
An apparatus and method for inserting a waypoint into a preexisting flight plan which includes selecting a waypoint on a graphical display of a portion of the flight plan and automatically...
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6567087 |
Method to create a high resolution database
A new method of creating a realistic simulated terrain database results in a database that requires less computer memory for storage than prior simulated terrain databases. The new method generates...
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6563504 |
System and method for creating 3D animated content for multiple playback platforms from a single production process
A system and method facilitating the production, processing, and Internet distribution of 3D animated movies including 3D multipath movies. A key reduction algorithm reduces the keyframes...
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6556207 |
Graphic scene animation data signal with quantization object, corresponding method and device
The invention relates to a data signal for animation of a graphic scene to be used by means for constructing images that can be displayed on at least one screen, a signal in which the scene is...
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6549204 |
Intelligent model library for a graphic image processing system
A method of enhancing the appearance of predetermined objects in a graphic display, rendered by a computing engine, includes a step of determining the system limitations of the computing engine for...
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6542155 |
Picture processing device, picture processing method, and game device and storage medium using the same
The present invention provides a picture processing device capable of realizing a detailed shape and pattern of a display object having a plurality of elements and located at a distance far from a...
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6539407 |
Method and apparatus for reducing flicker when displaying HTML images on a television monitor
A method and system are provided for reducing flicker of an image defined in HTML format for display on a television monitor. When an image is retrieved from a server by a user browser system that...
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6535232 |
Device for controlling quality of reproduction of motion picture and method for controlling the same
An apparatus comprises an object generation unit for generating an object based on three-dimensional object data externally input, an object position determination unit that moves the generated...
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6525732 |
Network-based viewing of images of three-dimensional objects
A three-dimensional object may be imaged from several viewpoints distributed about the object, and the image obtained at each viewpoint may be stored in conjunction with the viewpoint's coordinates...
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6522327 |
Decompression of variable-length encoded compressed three-dimensional graphics data
Three-dimensional compressed geometry is decompressed with a unit having an input FIFO receiving compressed data bits and outputting to an input block state machine and an input block, whose...
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6522336 |
Three-dimensional graphics rendering apparatus and method
An image represented by color values corresponding to the pixels of a rendering screen is rendered in response to three-dimensional graphics data. The three-dimensional graphics data include...
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6515660 |
Apparatus and method for dynamic triangle stripping
An apparatus and method is provided for creating a neighbor mesh from a multi-resolution mesh (MRM) representation of a triangulated model. The apparatus and method include computing neighbor data...
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6503144 |
Computer readable program product storing program for ball-playing type game, said program, and ball-playing type game processing apparatus and method
A computer readable program product stores a program of a ball-playing type game which can smoothly express the continuous action of a player before and after a player obtains a ball when throwing...
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6501472 |
Method and system for transmitting graphical images
Techniques for transmitting graphical images in a network environment are described. According to the techniques, the amount of data of the graphical images that is transmitted is customized in...
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6501479 |
Multi-format vertex data processing apparatus and method
An apparatus and method allows efficient processing of vertex data received in any suitable format. The method and apparatus accesses stored vertex data that may be stored in a plurality of...
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6496189 |
Remote landscape display and pilot training
A method of providing data blocks describing three-dimensional terrain to a renderer. The data blocks belong to a hierarchical structure which includes blocks at a plurality of different resolution...
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6489960 |
Hybrid subdivision in computer graphics
Different limit surfaces are derived from the same initial arbitrary polygon mesh by sequentially combining different subdivision rules. This added freedom allows for the more efficiently modeling...
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6473070 |
Wireless tracking system
A tracking system for tracking one or more wireless input devices includes a receiver to receive wireless signals from the input devices and a tracking circuit to detect movements of the wireless...
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6473091 |
Image processing apparatus and method
An image processing apparatus and method which can reduce the size of circuits for α-blending and dithering and realize high speed processing which perform in parallel processing for finding an...
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6462749 |
Image processing unit, image processing method, storage medium synthesizing a scenario including an object's position, size and display time
By reconfiguring configuration information items according to the need, it was made possible to implement a natural displayed scene. Initialize the time “t” to “O”, extract the attribute...
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6462738 |
Curved surface reconstruction
A control mesh of polygonal approximations is generated from one of a variety of conventional object representation schemes. The control mesh is a uniform representation of the object to be...
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6459430 |
System and method for implementing multi-level resolution conversion using modified linear interpolation
A system and method for implementing multi-level resolution conversion (MLRC) of a set of image pixels efficiently using linear interpolation. The system automatically generates equations for...
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6456288 |
Method and apparatus for building a real time graphic scene database having increased resolution and improved rendering speed
A database generated off-line containing high-resolution models incorporated into source imagery. The method and apparatus builds a data intensive scene representation and renders it off-line,...
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6456286 |
Apparatus and method for displaying three-dimensional polygons
A polygon rendering capability detecting part detects the rendering capability of the equipment used so as to calculate the total number of polygons N ap that can be allocated in one frame. A...
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6452603 |
Circuit and method for trilinear filtering using texels from only one level of detail
A circuit and process perform trilinear filtering using four texels (called “nearest texels”) that are nearest to a to-be-displayed pixel, and also using twelve additional texels (called...
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6448969 |
Topographic display system
In a stereoscopic landform display apparatus disclosed herein, landform data comprising altitude value of landform are stored in an external storage ( 3 ), and when a display subject region to be...
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6441819 |
Methods and apparatus for recording and information processing, and recording medium therefor
A recording medium, recording and information processing apparatus and methods by which efficient processing of data and a high processing speed can be readily achieved at lower cost. A main CPU...
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6434280 |
System and method for generating super-resolution-enhanced mosaic images
A super-resolution-enhanced mosaic image generating system is provided for generating a super-resolution-enhanced mosaic image from a plurality of image frames, each image frame being associated...
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6430161 |
Client-optimized data transmission system and method
Data transmission system and methods in which data is automatically selected based upon, the processing ability of a client and the condition of a data transmission line connecting a server and the...
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6426750 |
Run-time geomorphs
Real-time rendering of large-scale surfaces with locally adapting surface geometric complexity according to changing view parameters. A view-dependent progressive mesh (VDPM) framework represents...
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6417860 |
Method and system for providing texture using a selected portion of a texture map
An apparatus and method for quickly and efficiently providing texel data relevant for displaying a textured-image. A large amount of texture source data, such as photographic terrain texture, is...
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6414682 |
System and method for transitioning between two filters, allowing for the use of higher order interpolation
The present invention provides a system, apparatus and method for filtering an image that produces output images having high resolution without visual discontinuity across a wide range of resize...
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6414681 |
Method and apparatus for stereo image display
Whether or not an object to be rendered in stereo images is inside of a fusional area is determined on the basis of a focus point and positions of eyes of a viewer. By using characteristics of a...
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6414683 |
Surface simplification preserving a solid volume
Computer systems may be used to generate and display objects represented by triangles defined by coordinates of vertices. The present invention generates coordinates of a simplified vertex based...
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6404431 |
Virtual map store/cartographic processor
A digital map system has a storage device for storing digital map data and a cartographic processor for generating maps utilizing digital map data from the storage device. The cartographic...
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6400372 |
Methods and apparatuses for selecting levels of detail for objects having multi-resolution models in graphics displays
The level of detail selected for each object in a scene is determined based upon a variable normalized risk parameter which may be supplied by the application. A recursive composite parent object...
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6396503 |
Dynamic texture loading based on texture tile visibility
A server stores a first multi-resolution texture pyramid and a 3-D geometry object. A client downloads the geometry object and a low resolution texture tile of the first multi-resolution texture...
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6392667 |
Method and apparatus for representing objects as visually discernable entities based on spatial definition and perspective
Apparatus and process for consolidating the visual representation of objects into a “rollup” visual representation. A set of objects defined in an N-dimensional space and a perspective...
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