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7617454 |
Accelerator handles
A method and apparatus is described to control velocity of object movement in a display device. A path is provided that the object will follow in the display. A plurality of handles are provided...
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7612776 |
Functions acting on arbitrary geometric paths
A facility for evaluating a spreadsheet cell is described. The facility reads a function call stored in a spreadsheet cell. The function call specifies an arbitrary geometric path and an operation...
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7609278 |
Detecting backward motion represented by a path
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing graphical input. Input that specifies a path is received. The path includes multiple locations ordered along the...
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7606421 |
Data extraction from temporal image data
In a method and system to extract data from handwritten information when the information is captured as sequences of strokes, vectors, or marks, temporal data is stored within the color or...
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7598955 |
Hinted stem placement on high-resolution pixel grid
Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for rendering a hinted character for display in grayscale on a grayscale output device in accordance with a hinted stem placement policy. In one...
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7589730 |
System and method for drawing a dashed path
A system and method for rendering or facilitating the rendering of an attractive dashed path. A dashed path comprises a pattern of alternating stroke and gap segments; different dash patterns...
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7570265 |
Sawtooth spline display
A computer-implemented method for displaying animation splines includes receiving a source spline formed of paths between a sequence of knots to define a path between a first and a second end knot,...
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7564459 |
Resolution-independent curve rendering using programmable graphics hardware
A shape defined partially be a Bézier curve is rendered through a GPU-implemented technique which determines for various screen points which side of the curve the points lie on. This is done in...
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7554548 |
Gamma curve generation method and device for the same
The gamma curve generation method of the invention selects each set of three consecutive control points among multiple consecutive control points, forms a cubic curve passing through the selected...
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7554547 |
Processing method, processing apparatus, and computer program product
The graphic elements which constitutes a graphic data created by a CAD system for processing the graphic data displaying a graphic formed by combining the graphic elements are sorted into separate...
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7551173 |
Pixel accurate edges for scanline rendering system
A method ( 2500 ) of converting a monotonic curve into edge information is disclosed. A method ( 2800 A) of determining an integer edge crossing value, Xi, for a new edge crossed by a scanline...
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7542603 |
Process for drafting a curve in a computer-aided design system
A curve is created in a computer-aided design system, based on a set of points inputted by the user. A polyline is computed and the curvature envelope along said polyline is computed to determine...
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7538764 |
System and method to obtain surface structures of multi-dimensional objects, and to represent those surface structures for animation, transmission and display
Four related but independent aspects are described: (1) a method and a system to derive mesh surface descriptions (also called connectivity-wireframes) and material properties from objects...
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7526131 |
Image processing apparatus and methods
A method is provided of processing digital image data representing an image of an object to determine data representing a boundary for said object, the method comprising: inputting said image data;...
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7518609 |
System, method and computer program product for modeling a transition between adjoining surfaces
According to one aspect of exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a method is provided for modeling a transition between adjoining surfaces. The method includes determining a curve of...
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7502685 |
Vehicle navigation apparatus and method with traveling direction indication at guidance intersection
A vehicle navigation apparatus is provided which can reliably guide a vehicle along a guidance route when the vehicle approaches an intersection of interest at which it is to make a turn even if...
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7502028 |
Assigning region attributes in a drawing
Techniques for assigning a region attribute to a region in a drawing are disclosed. One technique includes editing the drawing to define a current region, associating the current region with a...
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7499055 |
Method of font generation for displaying the thickness of strokes of characters
The present invention employs the notion of a Chinese writing brush in moving a geometric figure to produce a style of calligraphy, where the area of the geometric figure is large or small, then...
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7496416 |
Input/output curve editor
A method of varying the relationship between a scalar input parameter and a scalar output parameter, by: displaying a relationship between an input parameter and an output parameter as a curve on a...
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7495665 |
Storage medium having game program stored thereon and game apparatus
Plane position coordinates indicating a position of a player object in a plane game field is updated based on an action which is performed by the player object on the plane game field and is...
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7471295 |
Multi-variate data and related presentation and analysis
A recursively partitioned/nested geometric structure is employed to graphically present and/or facilitate analysis of multi-variate data, including functions of multi-dimensional variables. Visual...
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7463262 |
Image processing apparatus and method
A plurality of position data are input, which indicate the position of an observation target defined in a three-dimensional space, on its three-dimensional image, which is viewed from a...
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7450125 |
Method and system for representing and displaying digital ink
A method and system for compressing and displaying a digital ink trace. Raw ink data is smoothed, and sharp points of the smoothed line are found. Curve-fitting is then used to generate a...
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7443397 |
Method and apparatus for nonlinear coding with 1st order power functions in digital imaging system
This invention discloses a transforming apparatus, according to a transforming curve, for transforming a first image to a second image. The first image includes a plurality of pixels. The...
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7439977 |
Method of displaying three-dimensional vector orientations on a two-dimensional surface
A method for generating, displaying and manipulating the orientation of three-dimensional vectors on a two-dimensional surface for visualization, statistical analysis and correlation. The method...
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7425959 |
Representation of implicit curves for procedural surfaces
Compact and accurate piecewise parametric representations of implicit functions may be achieved by iteratively selecting ranges of parameterizing regions and testing each for satisfying an...
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7417635 |
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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7412360 |
Method and apparatus for shape deformation and placement
A method for deforming a plurality of shapes is described wherein each of the shapes comprises a set of parametric curves. The method comprises: providing a parametric surface, and forming a...
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7408554 |
Spherical modeling tool
In one aspect, the invention relates to a method for analyzing qualitative data. The method includes the step of providing a plurality of evaluation categories and a respective ranking system....
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7405733 |
Spline drawing in a computer-implemented graphics program
A computer-implemented graphics program for drawing a spline. The spline is drawn using a first method in the graphics program. Thereafter, the graphics program seamlessly switches from drawing the...
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7339588 |
Character image generating system, storage medium storing character image generating program and method
The present invention is a character image generation system for generating outline font based on character information and displaying the outline font on a display with a prescribed number of...
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7324895 |
Apparatus for creating a navigation map
To display a navigation map for a navigation device more accurately and realistically and with less memory capacity, roads, railroad lines, rivers, lakes, and similar cartographic parameters are...
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7295211 |
Method of automatic image processing
Method is disclosed for the automatic creation of images in a “van Gogh” style. The method comprises locating portions of detail in an image an utilising the areas of detail to propagate brush...
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7289121 |
System for creating and modifying curves and surfaces
A system that has a flexible tape input device with bend and twist sensors spaced along the tape and a curve generation system producing a virtual B-spline tape curve using the bend and twist...
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7286131 |
Generating an approximation of an arbitrary curve
A system and method for generating an approximation of an arbitrary or user-editable curve. One or more controls associated with a control curve are provided, and a user input related to the...
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7260547 |
System for aiding to make medical care schedule and/or record, program storage device and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave
A system for aiding to make a medical care schedule and/or record is provided with: a plurality of files for respectively including medical care data in correlation with execution timing data; a...
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7256785 |
Assigning subpath attributes in a drawing
Techniques for assigning a subpath attribute to a subpath in a drawing are disclosed. One technique includes editing the drawing to define a current path having a current subpath, matching a...
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7248257 |
Low bandwidth transmission of 3D graphical data
A graphical data-compressor for compressing received arbitrary graphical data for subsequent transmission; where the graphical data-compressor comprises an input for receiving the received...
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7240299 |
Method for improving usage of a graphic user interface pointing device
A two part method for improving the usage of a pointing device by a physically impaired user is disclosed. A first method is provided for learning how a user moves the pointing device by acquiring...
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7239317 |
Graphical representation of financial information
Similarity values are determined between pairs of stocks in a stock market. First, second and third optimum paths are determined which optimize respective functions of similarity values between...
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7228492 |
2D graph displaying document locations of user-specified concept of interest
According to one embodiment of the present invention, methods and systems for displaying an interest profile for an electronically stored document are provided. Interest profiles provide features...
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7218330 |
Method and system for selecting elements in a graphical user interface
A computer-implemented method and system for selecting elements in a graphical user interface (GUI) is presented. The method and system improves upon existing approaches by simplifying an element...
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7218326 |
Spline manipulation tool
Methods, computer program products and systems for manipulating a spline are described. A spline can be displayed. A tangent bar that is tangent to a point on the spline and/or a curvature bar at...
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7212205 |
Curved surface image processing apparatus and curved surface image processing method
A curved surface image processing apparatus 100 according to the present invention that can render an object at higher speed and in higher quality by performing image processing using NURBS data...
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7196707 |
Tangent balancing
When a Bézier spline is fitted to a plurality of points the two tangent handles at each control point can be very different in length. A method of fitting a second spline to the first spline that...
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7194394 |
Method and apparatus for detecting and correcting inaccuracies in curve-fitted models
A technique for detecting and correcting inaccuracies in curve-fitted models. Humps and dips in a curve-fitted model are identified. An analysis is performed on the humps and dips to determine if...
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7191028 |
Electrically controlled apparatus
An electronically controlled apparatus of the present invention includes: an input-output section, which electronically processes and outputs input data; a control section, which electronically...
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7190375 |
Rendering ink strokes of variable width and angle
Apparatus and methods for dynamically rendering digital ink strokes of arbitrary stroke width while a user is drawing the ink strokes. An ink rendering system may receive sampled pen tip positions...
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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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7170523 |
Drawing-information processing apparatus and drawing-information processed method
A drawing-information processing apparatus is used for setting drawing information at positions specified through a drawing-information inputting part. An attribute-inputting part is used for...
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