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8184123 |
Image display apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image display method
The object of the present invention is to provide an image display apparatus, an image processing apparatus, and an image display method that are able to display images without motion blur without...
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8179402 |
Generating colorimetric profiles from spectral data and user input
A profile generation module which generates colorimetric color profiles based on spectral data and user input on viewing conditions, light source, and medium. In situations where the available...
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8179400 |
Motion adaptive ambient lighting
A method for controlling an ambient lighting element including receiving a content signal, analyzing the content signal to determine a motion vector of an object (120A) depicted in the content...
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8174535 |
Apparatus and methods for wrapping texture onto the surface of a virtual object
The invention provides techniques for wrapping a two-dimensional texture conformally onto a surface of a three dimensional virtual object within an arbitrarily-shaped, user-defined region. The...
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8174528 |
Retaining a surface detail
Among other disclosure, a computer-implemented method for retaining a surface detail includes identifying a surface that is to be used for generating an image in a rendering process. The surface...
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8169437 |
Distributed tessellation topology generator
A system and method for dividing three-dimensional patches into tasks for processing receives control points defining a three dimensional patch and determines if a number of vertices of the three...
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8169652 |
Album creating system, album creating method and creating program with image layout characteristics
A layout information generating apparatus is provided, for automatically selecting an original image appropriate to be laid out in a template based on information on an output device. The layout...
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8167718 |
Storage medium storing game program, game apparatus, and game control method
A game apparatus includes an LCD, and displayed on the LCD is a game screen including a display portion that displays a planar positional relationship between a player object and enemy objects...
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8164590 |
Methods and apparatus for determining high quality sampling data from low quality sampling data
A method for a computer system includes determining a plurality of illumination modes associated with a plurality of scene descriptors, wherein the plurality of scene descriptors includes a first...
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8164594 |
Image processing device, image processing method, program, storage medium and integrated circuit
It is an object to easily, and using existing devices, perform shadow enhancement that achieves an increase in the feeling of depth of 2D video. The input image data are first converted into...
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8159499 |
Rendering of shadows with hand-painted appearance
Shadows are rendered automatically with a hand-painted appearance. The shadow region is divided into a core and a penumbra. A core perturbation zone is defined between the core and penumbra and a...
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8149237 |
Information processing apparatus and program
An information processing apparatus according to the present invention deforms stored first mesh information of a three-dimensional object based on a deformation instruction for instructing...
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8150663 |
Partitioning algorithm for building a stratigraphic grid
Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for partitioning data for modelling a geological structure including laterally partitioning the data into multiple columns, where each...
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8144167 |
Monitoring graphics processing
A graphics processing apparatus is provided with rendering circuitry which separately renders different areas of a frame of pixel values. Monitoring circuitry coupled to the rendering circuitry...
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8139068 |
Three-dimensional animation of soft tissue of characters using controls associated with a surface mesh
A face, as well as any other soft tissue of a character, can be animated much in the same way that a skeleton is animated by creating a soft tissue solver attached to the surface mesh. In...
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8136049 |
Image processing apparatus
The present invention provides an image processing apparatus which improves processing efficiency by allowing display of a message according to a usage status of a user and also has good...
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8134551 |
Frontend for universal rendering framework
Embodiments of the invention provide a renderer-agnostic method for representing materials independently from an underlying rendering engine. Advantageously, materials libraries may be extended...
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8135566 |
Determining a node path through a node graph
Determining a node path through a node graph includes modifying the node graph in accordance with a predetermined platform performance, performing a path finding process through the node graph to...
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8130224 |
User-interface design
Graphical user interface objects are specified by a collection of attribute-value pairs, the collection of which comprise a complete description of the object and may be used by a rendering element...
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8130221 |
Method and system for repairing triangulated surface meshes
A method of repairing a three dimensional surface mesh model to be watertight and manifold generally includes identifying a plurality of hole edges in the surface mesh model, selecting one of the...
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8125493 |
Generating a texture from multiple images
A texture is generated using a plurality of images and a geometry that corresponds to an object. The geometry is mapped to each of the plurality of images. A graph includes a plurality of nodes...
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8127297 |
Smart virtual objects of a virtual universe independently select display quality adjustment settings to conserve energy consumption of resources supporting the virtual universe
Described herein are processes and devices that use smart objects in a virtual universe to conserve computing resources. One of the devices described is a virtual resource conserver. The virtual...
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8120607 |
Boundary transition region stitching for tessellation
A system and method for stitching a boundary transition region of a patch produces a graphics primitive topology for the boundary transition region of the patch. A first number of vertices is...
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8120991 |
System and method for full azimuth angle domain imaging in reduced dimensional coordinate systems
Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for converting coordinate systems for representing image data such as for example seismic data, including accepting a first set of seismic...
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8115765 |
Rule-based procedural terrain generation
Disclosed are systems and methods for rule-based procedural generation of terrain in real time for a virtual world. Using the terrain editor tool, the terrain system allows defining and modifying...
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8106904 |
Shader program generation system and method
A method and computer program product are provided for generating a shader program. Included is a file associated with a graphics effect. In use, a shader program is generated based on processing...
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8106907 |
Leaping iterative composition method of complicated graphic and storage medium having computer program executing the same
A leaping iterative composition method of a complicated graphic and a storage medium having a computer program executing the same are described. First, an initiator and generators are set. After...
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8098258 |
Methods and apparatus for multiple texture map storage and filtering
A method for a computer system including receiving a file comprising textures including a first and a second texture, and metadata, wherein the first texture need not have a predetermined geometric...
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8098247 |
Systems and methods for geometric data compression and encryption
Systems, methods, and physical computer-readable storage media for performing geometric data compression and geometric data decompression and/or geometric data encryption and geometric data...
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8081184 |
Pixel shader program thread assembly
Systems and methods for assembling pixel shader program threads for execution based on resource limitations of a multithreaded processor may improve processing throughput. Pixels to be processed by...
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8081186 |
Spatial exploration field of view preview mechanism
Indicators operable to preview or show the position and relative zoom level of a field of view within a virtual space. Virtual space exploration tools typically make use of a field of view for...
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8077177 |
Method for loading and displaying gridded data by determining the usefulness of a particular vertex
Method, computer executable program and apparatus for displaying massive amounts of potentially non-uniform gridded data through the use of view dependant refinement. An initial minimal...
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8072456 |
System and method for image-based rendering with object proxies
A system and method for rendering with an object proxy. In one embodiment, a method includes forming a set of view textures corresponding to a set of viewing directions; selecting a viewing...
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8072464 |
3-dimensional graphics processing method, medium and apparatus performing perspective correction
A 3D graphics processing method includes receiving a homogeneous coordinate and an attribute value of both end points of one scan line of a polygon composed of a plurality of perspective projected...
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8068103 |
User-interface design
Graphical user interface objects are specified by a collection of attribute-value pairs, the collection of which comprise a complete description of the object and may be used by a rendering element...
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8063903 |
Edge evaluation techniques for graphics hardware
The edge evaluation technique, in accordance with one embodiment of the present technology, includes determining a number of edges of a given primitive to be evaluated. The technique also includes...
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8063902 |
Method and apparatus for increasing efficiency of transmission and/or storage of rays for parallelized ray intersection testing
For ray tracing, methods, apparatus, and computer readable media provide efficient transmission and/or storage of rays between ray emitters, and an intersection testing resource. Ray emitters,...
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8059124 |
Temporary non-tiled rendering of 3D objects
3D artwork may be rendered in a tiled, raster environment without tiling to improve performance and response time. When an image includes 3D artwork, rendering the 3D artwork using multiple tiles...
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8049752 |
Systems and methods of determining sampling rates for volume rendering
A system and method of determining a sampling rate for rendering a volumetric image, the method includes determining a regional variation value representing regional data, color, and/or alpha...
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8044965 |
Color processing apparatus and method
In order to calculate the calorimetric value of a color patch under a given viewing illuminant, a plurality of colorimetric value sets obtained by measuring the colors of color patches under a...
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8044969 |
Reflectance spectra estimation and colour space conversion using reference reflectance spectra
A Personal Computer (PC) adjusts a color of an image received from a digital camera to produce an estimated reflectance spectrum and/or to convert the color to a new color space. First, an input...
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8044957 |
Subdividing geometry images in graphics hardware
A system may include a graphics memory, a data bus, a processor, and a vertex shader. The data bus may be operatively connected to the graphics memory. The processor may send vertex data to the...
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8040355 |
Three-dimensional location-based texture transfers
Textures are transferred between different object models using a point cloud. In a first phase, a point cloud in 3-D space is created to represent a texture map as applied to a first, or...
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8040349 |
System and method for structuring an A-buffer
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for efficiently creating and accessing an A-Buffer with a GPU. The A-Buffer is organized in arrays of uniformly-sized tiles. Each...
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8031957 |
Rewritable lossy compression of graphical data
A computer-implemented method can provide compression of a digital representation of an object. The digital representation can include a graphical data structure with graphical data defining the...
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8031202 |
Color transfer between images through color palette adaptation
An image adjustment includes adapting a universal palette to generate (i) an input image palette statistically representative of pixels of an input image and (ii) a reference image palette...
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8031191 |
Apparatus and method for generating rendering data of images
An image processing apparatus for sequentially generating rendering data of a plurality of images composing a moving image, comprising a velocity vector detecting unit for detecting a velocity...
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8026912 |
System and method for structuring an A-buffer
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for efficiently creating and accessing an A-Buffer with a GPU. The A-Buffer is organized in arrays of uniformly-sized tiles. Each...
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8026927 |
Reduction of mura effects
A display that includes at least one gray level being provided to a plurality of pixels that illuminates each of the pixels with the gray level. The display applies corrective data for the pixels...
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8026925 |
Apparatus and method for displaying picture in portable terminal
Provided is an apparatus and method for displaying a picture in a portable terminal. The method includes identifying a visibility color quality corresponding to the external brightness upon sensing...
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