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7620638 |
Process for selecting an object in a PLM database and apparatus implementing this process
The invention is directed to a process, an apparatus and a program for selecting an object in a PLM database containing modeled objects. The invention allows a user to rapidly display a view of the...
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7620210 |
Anisotropic optimization for texture filtering
Anisotropic optimization is a technique to reduce the number of texture samples anisotropically filtered to determine a texture value associated with a graphics fragment. Reducing the number of...
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7619635 |
Anisotropic texture sampling for odd ratios
Systems and methods for positioning bilinear texture samples to produce an anisotropically filtered texture mapped pixel may improve texture mapping performance and image quality. The bilinear...
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7616212 |
Data conversion method for processor, texture producing method, program, recording medium, and projector
In a data conversion method which refers to textures for converting an input value into an output value by using a predetermined function, the data conversion method includes: converting the input...
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7616211 |
Rendering processor, rasterizer and rendering method
A shader sends a “completely full” signal to a buffer control unit when a head pixel in a first pass input from a DDA arrives at a final stage of a pipeline process. When the head pixel in the...
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7614041 |
System for reducing the number of programs necessary to render an image
A image processing system reduces the memory and computational requirements needed to process graphics operations. The system combines otherwise individual operations to apply filters to images....
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7612910 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information output control method, storage medium and program
An information processing apparatus accurately and automatically determines whether a page to be printed out or rendered is a color page or a monochrome page. In order to efficiently output the...
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7609281 |
Accelerated rotation for displaying an image
A transform engine is configured to rotate, and/or rotate and translate, one or more polygons in response to screen orientation. Thus, when texture data obtained from a pre-rotated image is applied...
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7609275 |
System and method for mosaic rendering of three dimensional image
A system and method for a mosaic rendering of a 3D model is provided. Textures are created using polygon information related to a vertex of each face of an inputted 3D model, a normal, and a face...
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7609274 |
System, method, and computer program product for general environment mapping
A reflection image and an environment map are loaded into memory. During rendering of an object, an environment texture sample is retrieved from the environment map based on a reflection vector...
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7609272 |
Partial texture loads
Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide for partial texture load instructions. Instead of one instruction that may take several shader passes to complete, several instructions are issued,...
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7609260 |
Image generation program product and image processing device
This program product causes a computer to function as a unit for setting spectator information including the number of spectators belonging respectively to first and second spectator types, a unit...
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7609258 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
An information processing apparatus generating a three-dimensional map on the basis of three-dimensional map data includes rendering area acquiring means for acquiring a rendering area in which the...
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7606375 |
Method and system for automatically generating world environmental reverberation from game geometry
Reverberation parameters for one or more positions of interest are derived from graphics data used for displaying a computer-generated environment. For each position of interest for which...
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7605822 |
Method and system for performing texture mapping across adjacent texture maps
A method and system for performing texture mapping across adjacent texture maps. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of determining...
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7605821 |
Poisson image-editing technique that matches texture contrast
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a system for reconstructing an image. During operation, the system receives an original image, wherein the original image includes a defective...
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7605820 |
Creating texture data outside of a chart boundary
Discontinuities along texture mapped seams of three-dimensional models may be reduced by creating and sampling texture data outside of chart boundaries. When a texel center is not within a chart...
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7602399 |
Method and apparatus for generating a pixel using a conditional IF—NEIGHBOR command
A device and method for controlling generation of a final pixel utilizes a conditional statement, referred to as an IF_NEIGHBOR statement, which when compiled, causes a programmable pixel shader to...
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7602398 |
Decorating surfaces with textures
Surfaces can be decorated with texture tiling and/or texture painting using one or more sample textures, such as BTFs. In a described implementation of texture tiling, a patch-based BTF synthesis...
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7602396 |
Method and apparatus for painting groups of objects
Methods and apparatus, including computer program apparatus, implementing techniques for processing digital artwork. In one aspect, the techniques process aggregations of artwork where both the...
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7598967 |
Accelerated rotation for displaying an image
A transform engine is configured to rotate, and/or rotate and translate, one or more polygons in response to screen orientation. Thus, when texture data obtained from a pre-rotated image is applied...
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7598952 |
Three-dimensional image compositing on a GPU utilizing multiple transformations
A method includes identifying a plurality of image elements to be rendered within a three-dimensional image. The method also includes identifying a set of light sources according to which lighting...
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7598951 |
Multiple effect expression method and apparatus in 3-dimension graphic image
A method and apparatus for synthesizing and expressing multiple effects and textures in a 3-dimensional graph image. The method includes: defining nodes in VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language),...
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7595806 |
Method and system for implementing level of detail filtering in a cube mapping application
A method for implementing LOD (level of detail) filtering in a cube mapping application. The method includes accessing a first sample and a second sample for a cube map. A cube map path is computed...
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7593025 |
Accelerated rotation for displaying an image
A transform engine is configured to rotate, and/or rotate and translate, one or more polygons in response to screen orientation. Thus, when texture, obtained from a pre-rotated image is applied to...
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7593019 |
Method and apparatus for collating object
An object collation method comprising a registration procedure for registering the registered data of a registered object in a database, and a collation procedure for collating the input image of a...
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7593018 |
Method and apparatus for providing explicit weights for texture filtering
A system and method for providing explicit weights for texture filtering permits filter weights to vary for each pixel within a primitive. A different filter kernel may be used for each pixel. The...
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7589866 |
Editing of digital images, including (but not limited to) color-to-monochromatic conversion and changing the color of a monochromatic image
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...
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7589741 |
Processing high numbers of independent textures in a 3-D graphics pipeline
Circuits, methods, and apparatus provide for the storage of texture descriptors in a graphics memory. Since the texture descriptors are stored in a graphics memory, they do not need to be stored in...
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7589740 |
Planetarium picture-creating apparatus and picture-creating method thereof
A planetarium apparatus of this invention memorizes a plurality of texture image data expressing conditions of a surface of an object in a picture memory by relating to the range of a distance from...
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7589723 |
Real-time rendering of partially translucent objects
Rendering of a partially translucent object is performed using a set of parameter maps derived from data measuring reflectance and transmittance of light received at the surface of the partially...
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7586496 |
Shorter footprints for anisotropic texture filtering
Shortening a footprint is a technique to reduce the number of texture samples anisotropically filtered to determine a texture value associated with a graphics fragment. Reducing the number of...
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7586494 |
Surface detail rendering using leap textures
The present surface detail rendering technique provides an efficient technique for applying a mesostructure to a macrostructure for an object that minimizes the amount of memory required for...
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7583846 |
Texture image compressing device and method, texture image decompressing device and method, data structures and storage medium
A texture image compressing device includes a separating unit configured to separate intensity maps that include intensity values and light source-independent texture images, those images including...
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7583277 |
Accelerated rotation for displaying an image
A transform engine is configured to rotate, and/or rotate and translate, one or more polygons in response to screen orientation. Thus, when texture, obtained from a pre-rotated image is applied to...
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7583271 |
Method and apparatus for data processing recognizing an object represented as two-dimensional image
In order to generate a three-dimensional shape model corresponding to a two-dimensional image easily, a data processing apparatus includes a three-dimensional shape generating section and a texture...
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7583269 |
Window system 2D graphics redirection using direct texture rendering
The 3D window system utilizes hardware accelerated window system rendering to eliminate the pixel copy step of 3D window system output redirection. The 3D window system includes a window server...
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7583264 |
Apparatus and program for image generation
An image processing program creates a gradation of a sharp edge shadow and a gradation of subtle colors. The program causes a computer to perform a step in which a diffuse reflection from a first...
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7580046 |
Accelerated rotation for displaying an image
A transform engine is configured to rotate, and/or rotate and translate, one or more polygons in response to screen orientation. Thus, when texture, obtained from a pre-rotated image is applied to...
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7580042 |
Systems and methods for storing and fetching texture data using bank interleaving
In systems and methods for graphic reproduction of an image including textural information, multiple rows or blocks of texture data can be retrieved from system memory in response to the single...
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7574323 |
Textual and graphical demarcation of location, and interpretation of measurements
A computerized system allows for collecting data for a spatially distributed group of objects or networks by either skilled or unskilled personnel and for analyzing the collected data in an...
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7573490 |
Accelerated rotation for displaying an image
Method and apparatus for a graphics pipeline is described. More particularly, a transform engine is configured to rotate, and/or rotate and translate, one or more polygons in response to screen...
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7573474 |
Systems and methods for optimizing geometric stretch of a parametrization scheme
Systems and methods are provided for optimizing the geometric stretch of a parametrization scheme. Given an arbitrary mesh, the systems and methods construct a progressive mesh (PM) such that all...
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7570271 |
High speed display of high resolution image
A system maintains data from different resolution levels of an image in textures of a graphics processing unit (GPU). Image data is organized into multiple resolution layers of an image. Data from...
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7570261 |
Apparatus and method for creating a virtual three-dimensional environment, and method of generating revenue therefrom
An apparatus and method for creating and using a virtual three-dimensional environment, and methods for generating revenue based on the virtual three-dimensional environment. The virtual...
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7567254 |
Parallel texture synthesis having controllable jitter
A method and system for synthesizing texture using upsampled pixel coordinates and a multi-resolution approach. The parallel texture synthesis technique, while based on a neighborhood matching...
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7564465 |
Texture replacement in video sequences and images
Systems and methods for reducing bit rates by replacing original texture in a video sequence with synthesized texture. Reducing the bit rate of the video sequence begins by identifying and removing...
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7564455 |
Global visualization process for personal computer platforms (GVP+)
A system and process that incorporates hardware and software as elements to be combined with procedures and processes to obtain, format, store, combine, control, display, record, and visualize...
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7561165 |
System for texturizing electronic representations of objects
A texturizing system for texturizing electronic representations of objects includes a texture library, a texture engine and a graphical user interface module. A source texture may be stored in the...
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7561164 |
Texture map editing
In order to edit texture data for a 3D computer model, an image showing the 3D computer model with the texture data applied thereto is generated from a user-selected viewing direction and displayed...
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